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As one of those District Centers is taken over within hours the Afghan Security forces are taking it back. They have the ability now, the capability to react much quicker, to move forces all around the country to go back and take over those District Centers. I think thats a sign of progress as they move forward. Again, they have technology, they have the people they have the training. I think the difference this fighting season is getting the right leadership in place, holding the leaders accountable for the welfare of soldiers and police. And then building the moral of the folk as they continue to take the offensive. Theyre very defensive in nature. 80 of the Afghan Security forces are on check points and youre vulnerable to attacks. Thats where theyre taking a lot of their losses on the small check points. Afghan local police were designed to be the guardian tofs village. Theyre supposed to guard that village. But theyve employed them five kilometer, 10 kilometers outside of the vill
Search business. And prudential prepares to deliver firsthalf earnings in about 15 minutes. Profits are expected to surge by 10 , but investors eye the challenges ahead. Welcome to the show. Lets get straight to european markets, which were indeed quite strong yesterday. A slew of earnings and oil prices recovering by a couple of percent allowed equity markets to perform relatively well, better in europe than in the u. S. , but positive across the board. Now, today we are down 0. 6 for the broader stoxx 600 as you can see, a correction from yesterdays positivity and more of a continuation of how august as a whole has kicked off. Ftse 100 down 0. 6 , germany and france down a little bit more than that. Athens is in positive territory and seema will tell you why. Absolutely. Lets take a look at that top story. Greece and its International Creditors have agreed to a deal on bailout terms following long negotiations. Finance Ministry Sources telling cnbc that a number of minor issues still
Home turf. Betty hello and welcome to daybreak asia. I am betty liu at Bloomberg Global headquarters in new york. Been on thes u. N. Voting on these tougher sanctions against north korea, but not tough enough, right . Of the oil embargo falling far short of that that was talked about were discussed by north korea. Still, this is going to cut north korean exports by about 90 , and that is still going to have some bite on north korea. Haidi absolutely. Looking at these numbers, the sanctions cutting 55 of north korean death, diesel, and heavy fuel. Energy short of that embargo as well as the freeze on his assets that have been sough t. It is a little bit of a compromise because it was widespread expectation that the sanctions would not have gotten the vote of china and russia. Betty ahead of all of this news, which was widely expected, the market had a steady day a seller day. A record for the s p, with leadingls and techs the way. The dow higher by 260 points. The nasdaq also gaining by
Good gains across the board. We are having a look at what is happening and bringing up 5120 if you are a bloomberg user. Asian stocks going toward their best year since 2009. Asiapacific stocks outperforming globally speaking, the turquoise line, with europe doing well as well. And the american equities market looking like that. So over there come all of this is in u. S. Dollar terms. And this comes as fastgrowing market like china and india move, but each of these have the potential political crossroads. Some might say a high be to place. If they can go up. If that does happen, it could result in a cute pain accute pay for asia. This coming through for some of the market parties out there. Just under a half hour before we get underway in hong kong, but startinguala lumpur their session. What have we got . No pain so far with the asian equity markets, busy with success, that was the title of the chart you showed us. Checking stocks on wall street, good vibes putting asian equities on c