H shares in now and hong kong up by. 5 . Pretty marginal gains here in the last half hour or so with it brings us near the top of the 2015 bubble. On the other of the argument hsbc is cutting china to neutral f this rally. Something to keep in mind as we take a breather here from the exuberance weve seen in chinese stocks. One more thing were watching is the hong kong dollar. Now 15. 7 billion hong kong has been injected into the system there. Solid that pair and the renminbi with a six handle for the First Time Since march. The strength of the renminbi certainly helping the equity markets as well. And gold still holding. Some breaking news from sri lanka, the federal bank cutting its lending rate to 5. 5 . Its a big cut, a 100 basis point cut bigger than expected. Economy expanding at a pace of 3. 8 in 2021. Much bigger than anticipated. Lets dig deeper into the ofkets and bring in ahead forpacific thank you joining us. Lets talk about china. Its going gangbusters in the last seven da
Broadcaster in the philippines is facing a shutdown. Also this president cited the i. S. O. Fia after a court in turkey rules in favor of turning this popular heritage site into a mosque from a museum. Before we get to top story lets just get you some breaking news this just dropped literally in the past 90 seconds or so the u. S. President donald trump has decided to commute the sentence for his longtime friend and adviser roger stone mr stone of course you remember probably sentenced to a prison sentence for lying to congress as part of the probe into allegations of rushing russian meddling in the 2016 u. S. President ial Election Campaign alan fischer joins us live now from falls church in virginia alan what do we know. We know that theyre saying that this was done because he was risk he was due to start his sentence on tuesday the white house in a statement just issued you see peter just in the last 90 seconds or so said that roger stone is a victim of the russian hoax which is bei
Prayers outside of fear after a Turkish Court ruled in favor of turning the museum into a mosque. The us President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his ally roger stone he advised trumps president ial campaign and was sentenced to jail for lying to congress in the russia probe alan fischer reports. He has been a friend a confidant and for a very long time his biggest political supporter a religious student can thank donald trump through his freedom the veteran political consultant was due to begin a prison sentence on tuesday with the president s granting of clemency that has gone away in my case. An assistant u. S. Attorney filed a motion with the court which he assisted says. It from our investigation had proof beyond a crowd strikes report that the russians hacked the d. N. C. And gave the information to wiki leaks thats a lie in a statement the white house said roger stone is a victim of the russia hopes that the left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an
Protest against family side in the hope they can save other womens lives. And for men to go on trial in the hague in connection with the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight m. H. 7204298 people were killed when the plane was going down a new crash. Im sure welcome to the program. Global markets have dropped sharply on fears of a coronavirus epidemic is driving world economies towards recession leading european indexes a family made aliya opened with an eye on the rising number of cases on the continent and its a list of a quarantine measures germanys dax index dropped nearly 8 percent at the start of trading followed by the footsie 100. 00 in london which saw a similar plunge out of the gate both indexes have now recovered somewhat but remain down those losses follow a difficult day of trading in asia tokyos nikkei and x. Was more than up 5 percent at the end it was down more than 5 percent at the end of trading its biggest one day loss for 2 years crushing oil prices on monday h
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