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Weakness. That is keeping the regional benchmark mostly flat. Volumes are quite flat, especially here in hong kong. The exception is south korea. Fx markets u. S. Dollar continuing where it left off. Eurocom a two or three month bureau, euro, a two or three month low. Gold, a massive plunge midmorning that took gold to the secondmost oversold levels on record. Rishaad we are taking a look at what sparked this. Shery it was quite something and it was basically data out of the u. S. Higher dollar, lets need for gold less need for gold. You can see around 8 30 p. M. Hong kong time on friday, we saw gold plunged. It pushed gold over the edge and today, it fell more than 4 . Gold speculators, the least bullish on record. Money managers are holding the smallest net bullish bets on gold since u. S. Government data begun in 2006. They are not just dumping gold but also dumping silver, platinum, palladium. If you look at Exchange Traded products they lost about 2. 1 billion. Rishaad we are a co
Tom it is a backdrop for our conversation with Alan Greenspan, not a public official right now. Chairman greenspan has a lot to say, particularly about the bubble that we see from quantitative easing. Stan fischer is the vicechairman of the fed. He brings to us not only the domestic conversation, but decades of experience in eight in international economics. Lets get to our top headlines with vonnie quinn. Vonnie coming back to you later in the morning from washington, d. C. , with those interviews. Violence erupted at the demonstration marking the oneyear anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. The unarmed black man who was killed by a police officer. [gunshots] get down. Gunfire. Police say a man began shooting at officers and was wounded when police returned fire. The suspect is in Critical Condition. Donald trump is refusing to apologize for comments he made about fox news anchor megyn kelly. He is under fire for how he described her performance last thursday during the debate.
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