Of england as it considers the grand distortion. Will get a view on what is happening on the u. K. We will work our way through this show. We saw a big stock rally, and at imf telling ushe the growth story is pretty bleak. The singaporeans telling us they need to get back into crisis mode. Hans it captures what is going on up there. Some people are saying steady as it goes them we see the capacity of a single bank saying lets intervene. We could potentially have a a currencyr or conversation. And all that gets you excited. Guy you have to find something to get excited about. Equity markets probably not going to provide that. Yet, a huge rally for jp morgan. Expectations pretty low. On quarter quarter and beat expectations, but it was still down. This talk about we start morning, this is how the numbers look. Similar picture, it is thursday that means a bunch of stocks going dividend in london. Just be aware of that. That is called at the level stronger the most than most. Unsurprising
Halliburton abandoning plans with baker hughes union regulators were not happy with Loretta Lynch saying no merger is too big to challenge. Let us know what you think of our top stories on twitter. The yen dominating what is going on with japanese equity trading. The markets are closed today. Reporter talk about first trading day of may. Markets. As reshot pointed out, have a look at japan. They are down 4 . A lot of that happening with a stronger japanese yen. Australia, just about every stock on the nikkei underwater at the moment. When you take the losses back on thursday, we are down about 7. 5 over just two trading days. Lets break it down across sectors. Down onngle sector is the nikkei. Have a look at the nikkei volatility index. We are looking at a sharp jump. It up there . There we go 18 higher. That is something to watch. A lot of people are starting to downsize. When the yen starts jumping around, expect people to be riskadverse. Volatility is higher than usual. We are watch
225 putting the figure had 20 million, although honda will not confirm that. The elections are underway in the philippines with more than 50 million voters eligible. At stake is an economy described as asias rising tiger. Follow me on twitter. Hong kong markets getting underway in 30 minutes. We are a pickup on index, up over three quarters of 1 . In two weeks. In this will be the first time japan has been online for all five trading days of the week after being shut last week and that prior friday. A little bit of a comeback today , helping alongside the weaker yen. Taiwan just coming online. Singapore, a good opening. Pretty flat in malaysia on the open. The south korea underperforming. The Australian Market had a shaky start. We are seeing gains coming through in the early session. Asx 200 up. New zealand, down 1 10 of 1 . We will see Better Movement in the region today. Positive gains coming through in the u. S. Session on friday. Betting thatomists the likelihood of a jew rate hik
Spined on another blockbuster franchise. On the eve of our first star wars movie were feeling good. So no guidance for the year. And is it the data or the date that will determine a rate hike . The latest u. S. Jobs report is set to add more clues to the timing of a fed move. Good morning, everyone. Its that time of the month again. Its friday and its the jobs friday. Thats what were looking out for today. Especially important given that janet yellen flagged that that december meeting might be live and we may see the rate hike and expectations of that they have risen from 50 up from a 30 just a week ago. European markets, off by 0. 1 . Xetra dax seeing a little caution there and cac 40 down by. 7 . Here you go, this is the forecast for the all important nonfarm payrolls report. For the month of october what were expecting is a print of 183,000. Now that would be a little bit of an exhilaration from the month of september when we saw 142,000. Remember that was the really disappointing r
Retail sales once again blamed on unseasonably warm winter weather. Blame the weather seems to be the scene theme here in the u. S. As well. Anna we have heard this weather cited as the reason for a number of global retailers having trouble. It was a very warm year. So perhaps they do have reason. We heard from Marks Spencer on that subject. But we have to we have to talk about china. We heard patrick talking about a lack of handholding i the chinese authorities in doing whatever it is they are trying to do with their currency. We heard from nick wadhams as well in beijing. He said they botched this u. N. Devaluation. We need to understand better what they are trying to do. The pboc were being accused of the same thing in august. We have the nervousness at the start of 2015 in the pboc says we will cut it by the most since august. That fuels any uncertainty that already exists. As someone tweeted me this morning, if you were 13 minutes late to trading, you missed the whole day. Anna th