Said to plan an offer for yahoos with business, including its japanese arm, sending shares in tokyo surging. You are welcome to countdown this friday morning. Im manus cranny in london. The cynic in me says the markets are preparing for something much more insidious to come. Lets focus on the yen. Has the yen run it smile . This is where we are seeing dollaryen on a time frame, high noon for the yen in the United States. View at theo be the moment. This was new york yesterday at 11 00. 4 00 in london. Midnight on the orient express. We see the market begin to turn around. The voices of intervention are rising. The high for yen was the strongest since before qe. Weve had a fiveday rally. Up2. 8 against the pound and 2. 6 against the dollar. The biggest moving yen was against the pound. Bank of america says get ready for appreciation. Nomura says the level at which you see appreciation is 105. A friend of the program was spoken. He says they wont intervene on dollaryen until you trigger
Welcome to the pulse live in london. Im manus cranny. We have had a tough ride in equity markets. For stocks. Chinas benchmark index closed flat on the day. It wasnt a day that was not without its drama. The shanghai dropping by 5 . And that then turned around, flipped around. We went into a gain of. 9 , before he came back to the close of trade. Of course, this is the last trading day before Mainland China goes ahead with a world war ii parade. And those take place tomorrow, as china prepares to flex its military might. The government has been flexing its muscles in the markets. For more lets bring in richard frost. Great to have you with me this morning. Back just ated it the close of business. This is the most, i suppose, contrived market for many years. Richard yeah. Become incredibly predictable, but it is also a ts bolder every single day. Fell almost 5 shortly after it opened. And during the day, it started to come in, but it is in that thishour, where we see concentrated buying
After the government imposes tougher restrictions on arrivals to keep out new strains of coronavirus. Senior Police Officers in the uk says their investigations have been compromised after hundreds of thousands of arrest records were deleted from the Police National computer. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. In the last few minutes, germanys christian democrats have announced whos won the race to succeed Angela Merkel as party leader. Hes Armin Laschet, widely seen as the heir to mrs merkel s centrist brand of politics. It places him in pole position to become germany next chancellor. Angela merkel whos led germany for 16 years, has said she plans to stand down this year. Jenny hill is in berlin. Much surprise at Armin Laschet s success . Much surprise at Armin Laschets success . ,. , much surprise at Armin Laschets success . ,. , success . Hard to say. Most people thou~ht it success . Hard to say. Most people thought it would success . Hard to say. Mo
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. The worldwide death toll were covering all the latest to the coronavirus has passed coronavirus developments a new terrible milestone passing here in britain and globally. 150,000 for the first time. A top uk Health Specialist warns first. The country could end up we begin in china with the highest death rate in europe due to early errors where a set of new statistics are showing the coronavirus pandemic made in the pandemic. In a different light. The first a 50 jump we have to face the reality of that. In the official total of people we were too slow with who died after testing postive a number of things. But we can make sure that, for covid 19 in wuhan in the second wave, the city where the virus originated. Were not too slow. The total number of confirmed deaths Germanys Health minister says the countrys covid 19 in china is now over 4
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. The latest figures charting the human cost of the coronavirus pandemic have passed another grim record. 150,000 people have now lost their lives. Just how we know who has died has come under the spotlight again as china has released new figures for the city where the outbreak began. It announced a 50 jump in the official total of people who died in wuhan. The total number of confirmed deaths in china is now over 4,500, a rise of more than 1,200. State media also reported another key number chinas economy had contracted by a substantial 6. 8 the first time it had shrunk for three decades. Taken together, the numbers have led some to accuse chinas government of concealing just how bad the outbreak was and how seriously it affected the country. But Officials Say there has been n0 cover up. 0ur correspondent in beijing, Stephen Mcdonell has more