it s agony for zverev at the french open, as injury hands nadal a place in the final. and aiden o brien sets a classic record with victory in the oaks at the epsom festival. good evening. let s start with cricket the second day s play between england and new zealand has just drawn to a close at lord s. the clatter of wickets, 17 of them marked the start of england s test summer, and that pattern seemed to be continuing this morning, but the black caps take a lead of over 200 runs into the weekend. our sports correspondent joe wilson is at lord s. i thought this test was going to be over in double time, but new zealand have dug their heels in. you re not the only one. a lot more the revving up behind me, which is always a sure sign we re coming have come to the end of the day. a lead of 223, such a strong position, but you re right, then were batting at the start of then were batting at the start of the day. seeing if they could construct a meaningful lead. they couldn t.
Let us talk about some of the threads that draw some of the main stories together. Crude certainly one of them, and brought together iran. What happens when the iranians come back to the market . We see that concluding friday. We have the inflation story out of the euro, trying to figure out what the fed will do. We have been hearing from mr. Evans in chicago, his views about a rate cut. All of those coming about in a few days, a really climactic end to the way. Then the get to the payroll, the fed decision, an awful lot still to deal with. Eurozone inflation is still a big part, we will talk about that a lot over the next couple of hours. Lets get you up this be. Here is bloomberg first word. Nejra Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg and his wife announced plans to donate nearly in of their 46 billion stocks to charity. They have become parents, announcing the donation of their first child. He plans to give away no more than 1 billion a year for the next three years, holding on to majority V
It is six blocks here in london. The slight tangentially to that, we have had news overnight on australian jobs. The biggest monthly back to back jobs gain we have seen almost 28 years. You have to go back to 1988 to find a period as strong for the australian economy. That pushed the Australian Dollar a bit higher overnight. Some people questioning the data, of course. 71,400 jobs were created, economists forecast a drop of just 10,000. Manus this is the dollar rand trading, if youre on holiday or getting on the plane, you will have a river. It is at a record low, certainly not for good reason. He fired his finance minister. Story says it takes the country one step closer to junk. The rand, at one juncture and training, in a spokesman that back. Easy the biggest declin since theince 2011, and forecast is is the slowest rates in 2000 hundred the dollarrand, one of the conversations we have here today. Anna we are getting investor updates from glencore. This is one of the Mining Companie
Anna welcome to the program, you are watching countdown live from london. Lets put into context everything we have seen over the last 24 hours. We have seen a move back into the perceived safe haven place, although i should say the yen is bouncing around this morning in the session. That is nervousness around the u. S. Session yesterday. Lets reach out to where the u. S. Session took us. That came from what could be a good place, from the data. On the jobs front we got the survey in the u. S. Yesterday that shows that openings have increased the most since the year 2000. But that got investors wondering how quickly the Federal Reserve is therefore going to increase Interest Rates. That to the edge off the rest trading day yesterday. That would pick up in the asian sessions, and we see weakness coming in the session. All of that concern about the higher Interest Rates to me at a time where we increasingly see signs of slowdown, in part of the global economy. We had a number of clues tod