Not with beijing tightening its grip on hong kong more and more one really has to ask wouldnt such a deal mean that in the long run at least europes most important market operator in london and one of the u. K. s the united kingdoms most important strategic assets would be dominated at least indirectly by beijing the communist government there remember a few years ago frankfurt the stock market operator here tried to merge with the London Stock Exchange the deal finally did not happen because london refused to be dominated by the germans its very very doubtful whether the proud people in the city of london would prefer to be dominated by the communist government in china instead for frankfurt the market operator here and also of course for euro next to the other big market operator of the european continent such a deal would mean a huge new competitor at especially in terms of i. P. O. s you know initial Public Offerings so something that people here are not particularly looking forwar
The action. But come to business asia want to get jones will end the t. V. With us so the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has made a bid for one of its biggest european rivals the Organization Says it has offered more than 36000000000. 00 for the london Stock Exchange group the proposal envisions a Single Exchange joining europe with asia the chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchange childs lease says the deal would quote redefine Global Capital markets for decades to come. Now our financial correspondent susan is standing by at a nother eggs change out of the frankfurt Stock Exchange conrads interesting bit but given the current political tensions between hong kong and beijing and of course the brics of chaos here in europe what does all that mean. That means there are still a lot of question marks about whether or not this deal is really going to happen or not with beijing tightening its grip on hong kong more and more one really has to ask wouldnt such a deal mean that in the long run at l
Are still a lot of question marks about whether or not this deal is really going to happen or not with beijing tightening its grip on hong kong more and more one really has to ask wouldnt such a deal mean that in the long run at least europes most important market operator in london and one of the u. K. s the united kingdoms most important strategic assets would be dominated at least indirectly by beijing the communist government there remember a few years ago frankfurt the stock market operator here tried to merge with the London Stock Exchange the deal finally did not happen because london refused to be dominated by the germans its very very doubtful whether the proud people in the city of london would prefer to be dominated by the communist government in china instead for frankfurt the market operator here and also of course for euro next to the other big market operator on the european continent such a deal would mean a huge new competitor at especially in terms of i. P. O. s you k
She has mentioned that she is continuing the existing work that has been conducted by Police Complaints council. They mentioned a couple of dozen to 100 or so that came through as of her last week when she also spoke with reporters then. One interesting line she says she doesnt agree with an independent inquiry, one of the key demands from the protesters. Rishaad looking for a dialogue. She doesnt believe in having an independent inquiry, one of the demands the protesters were making. David the hang seng index is starting to move toward session lows. Unclear whether or not that is correlated to what she is saying and what the investors want her to say. Hat is another conversation. Hong kong now down 56 points. We were up 3545 points earlier at the open. Rishaad she is speaking cantonese. Once she starts speaking english we will bring you her comment there is. Zero tolerance on violence and says an escalation also is something that is showing lawlessness too. 4 these particular assets.
Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. You see a little bit of a lift to the markets. 0. 2 . 600 gaining a little bit of optimism that the trade war between the u. S. And. China is not getting worse. There. Worse. Ing there is also a little bit of optimism after we spoke to the boston fed president , Eric Rosengren. Conte, thecting mr. Prime minister of italy, to address the senate later on. Coming up, our exclusive conversation with bostons fed president , Eric Rosengren. We will hear a lot more from him about the inverted yield curve. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Leader,kongs embattled carrie lam, is trying to end over two months of protests during new dialogue. The protest began over opposition to a controversial extradition legislation. They grew to a wider antigovernment movement. We will start immediately a platform for dialogue with people from all walks of life. This is something that we want to do in a very sincere and humble manner. I and my