Pompeo andonesian foreign minister held talks on thursday. They discussed the sittion in the south cna sea wch china claims most of. Indonea has designated an exclusive Economic Zone off the nah tuna islands and has a territorial dispute with beijing in the area. Our law abiding nations reject the unlawful claims made by the Chinese Government party in the South China Sea. Its a cause worth pursuing in multilateral settings and the Trump Administration very much supports this. She said stability and peace should be maintained in the South China Sea and added International Law, especially United Nations convention on the law of the sea must be respected and implemented. Pompeo expressed willingness to cooperate in new ways to ensure Maritime Security and protect some of the worlds busiest trade routes. I encourage u. S. Businesses to invest more in indonesia including for procts in the Outer Islands in indonesia such as nah tuna island. Pompeo says the u. S. Welcomes indonesias Decisive
Video. A very cool perspective. This started 15 minutes ago as they walked out to establish their tethers and got to work. As you can see we see what they are seeing. This mission will take a while and is expected to last six hours. You will keep an eye on that. Love seeing this historic all female spacewalk. This is kind of amazing. We will keep an eye on that for you. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday, october 18. Im claudine wong. Im dave clark. Lets talk about your friday weather. It should get warmer. Steve paulson is here. By sunday. We dont have an out of this world forecast. I wish i had said that. Its friday. We need to keep it light we have a lot of cloud cover to the north. Some of that work its way over the weekend but by sunday temperatures are up and early next week it will be warm and dry in the mid80s. Today, 60s and 70s. Not too much change from yesterday. Temperatures are below average but they are ready to go above but it wont be until next week. San franci
Out this new silk road. Whats the environment like in hong kong with the overhang of andchina trade war, the political unrest that led to a lot of demonstration in the last couple of weeks . Can carrie lam shift the focus and gain more confidence among the investing committee as well as government officials. Here more than 5000 expected in the next day or so. We have a lot of guest. Lona ng and simon loong are joining us this hour. They try to build smart cities around southeast asia. Talking about the opportunities for the also simon loong joining us in the 11 00 hour. Talk about fintech, commercial banks and the like. Rishaad lets find out what is going on market wise. The position we find ourselves in overall. Looking at the nikkei up half of 1 . Someang seng seeing positivity, asian stocks hedging higher and higher at the moment. We did have that late rally among u. S. Counterparts. Japan, south korea in hong kong. Chinese stocks under pressure over there. S p futures slipping back
Giant announces an updated product line. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Good to be back ahead of the most important ecb meeting of the year. Trade ineing a risk on asia, green on the screen for the msci asianpacific index. We have a tweet from the global times talking about china putting measures to mitigate the trade war giving lift to risk assets. We see Sweet Nothings on the s p on a headline level. What has been going on beneath the surface for sector and factor rotation moving from more growth to value. Looking flatres, so another day of perhaps not much to do on the headline level. The big moves have been in bond yields. Jumps into year and 10year. Hitting its highest since august 5, down a touch today but sitting on 1. 66 handle. Great to see you and great to be back. Manus yes, indeed. Yields just off the onemonth high. We will talk about what james gorman had to say. To show the oil market because what has gone on is john out. N, this was the biggest pricing dislocation
Against the action that was taken by Boris Johnson to suspend parliament has been the parliamentary Speaker John Bercow his comments on wednesday have been called unconstitutional by some other senior members of the parliament but he was reacting as i say to Boris Johnsons plan to suspend parliament he said in a statement that this move represents a constitutional outrage the statement went on to say shutting down parliament would be an offense against the democratic process in the rights of parliamentarians as the peoples elected representatives. And the role of the speaker there for looks as though its going to be pretty critical in the coming weeks and so we can mettle to Bobby Friedman whos a barrister who has written the biography of john bercow the current speaker of the house thank you very much indeed for joining us i was just wondering 1st of all what your thoughts were on Ruth Davidson the leader of the scottish conservatives who Just Announced her resignation and whether you