Provide an outright majority but the party more than doubles its seats. The Third Largest in parliament. Saudi announces it will sell up to 0. 5 of shares to Retail Investors and stays mum on what could be the worlds ever largest mistake. Well, good morning and welcome to street signs a check on markets and how they are fairing this morning a wall of red for asia and nikkei down a quarter of a percentage point but a big move for the shanghai currencies. Big mover in the hong kong index here this after Hong Kong Police opened fire on protesters during todays morning commute, leaving one man in critical condition. Now, these latest demonstrations come after prodemocracy lawmakers were arrested on saturday it weighed on stocks in asia, as i have been recounting shanghai actually the lowest, the most its dropped in the last four months for more inform oiation on whata been happening getting sold on rare week day violence as weekend unrest rolls over to the citywide protests on monday drops
Raised substantially. Anna hong kong protests smashed the hang seng. Trade is prepared for volatile results. Capital is set to make a bid as the burger king owner looks to diversify. Welcome to the program, 20 minute 20 nine minutes into the start of the trading day. On teachers we are expecting to follow asia to the downside. On futures we are expecting to follow asia to the downside. The Asian Session has dominated more than the u. S. Session last night on what President Trump had to say on the gloomy side around trade and the possibility of higher tariffs. The psyche inated asia. The protest activity in hong kong, we see futures in the u. S. Going weaker. We have selling more broadly even in hong kong, but that is down by 32 . Further disruption in hong kong. Is this something we can move on from at some point . This is the impact from hong kong, and also what President Trump had to say. He said there could be a deal but also about the possibility of tariffs going higher. New zealan
Security scam thats cost victims thousands of pounds. And qantas takes a quantum leap for air travel with a record breaking 19 hour non stop flight from new york to sydney. And well be getting the inside track on Internet Speed with the man responsible for the uks broadband infrastructure. The boss of openreach will bejoining us. Sally mentioned that scanning case. We would like to know if you have been scammed, almost everybody has these days, but tell us your story and how it affected you. Just use the hashtag bbcworklife. A warm welcome to the programme. Once again we are focused on the British Government and its attempts to get the backing of parliament for Boris Johnsons brexit to get the backing of parliament for borisjohnsons brexit deal. It comes after politicians delayed the crucial vote on saturday and passed legislation to block the uk leaving the eu without a deal. So whats in mrjohnsons agreement . Hes ditched the irish backstop in favour of a new arrangement that sees the
Protesters in hong kong, saying the nba has acted like a subsidiary of chinas communist party. Bogard onn bulgari. We bring you our exclusive interview from shanghai. Shery later, we bring you more on amazons after hours stock plunge, but first, lets get you started with a quick check of markets. We see u. S. Futures unchanged at the moment after we sawtek shares leading the gains on the s p 500 which closed above that 3000 level. We had Semiconductors Leading the gains. The Philadelphia Semiconductor index gaining 2. 5 after we got a positive outlook coming out of lam research. The dow, though, underperformed. Had three of we results showing the Global Industrial slump we are seeing is really weighing on the company. Of course, this just part of a raft of earnings we got today including microsoft and tesla gaining on solid earnings, and as we said earlier, amazon plunging after hours, so we will dissect all of those numbers later in the show, but first, lets get you started with a qui
Good to have you with us. We will have a visit busy programme today. Also in the programme should frequent flyers pay higher taxes to help tackle aviation emissions . Is this just another change that we will get used to, like paying for plastic bags . Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Lets get started. We start here in london where business will resume in the house of commons in a few hours time. It follows that dramatic and historic ruling by the Supreme Court that borisjohnsons decision to suspend parliament for five weeks was unlawful. The Prime Minister said he profoundly disagreed with the judges but would respect their decision. A senior Government Official said that borisjohnson spoke to the queen after that ruling, but would not reveal details of the conversation. Our political correspondentjessica parker has been following events. Parliament is opening up again. The media tenants are making a return. Westminster coming back to life. It wasnt his plan