China a currency manipulator. We are 30 minutes away from the open of trading this friday in china and hong kong. It has been a pretty tepid day across markets in asia, really pulling back in terms of risk appetite. Sophie is taking a look at how the markets are faring. Asia, major markets in in the red. We have the dollar holding up following Steve Mnuchins remarks. Areo have resources stocks on asian markets this friday, this as the commodity rally is seeming to stop. In japan, the nikkei 225, lower for a third day, but toshiba, 8 , thisgains of coming from news that it is weighing a westinghouse chapter 11 bankruptcy as an option. Toshiba shares, certainly in focus given the story around not only its westinghouse unit but its chip stake sale. We also have the kospi snapping a fourday advance. Extending theg, 8 , drop. It is due to be listed march 7. In australia, the a sx 200, being dragged a six 200, being dragged by copper and iron ore prices slumping. Both gold and crude hold gai
A lot more to come as eventually theyre going to let evacuees back in. That day has not yet arrived. Its still the case that these roads are dangerous. There are downed power lines. The roads are not navigable to some point. We had to hike a 3mile roundtrip to get up to that neighborhood where the woman died this weekend. Im just thinking as fast as this thing got started on saturday especially, it seemed like the emergency crews just like the homeowners were pretty overwhelmed by this thing. Absolutely. It happened so quickly. We just heard it from fire officials, from people who evacuated, theyre watching those flames come over the hill. Theyre going, theyre not going to get here that quickly, then bang. They raced down the hill right in to this community and people grabbed what they could and left. In the case of this women, they had people calling in to the sheriffs department, there were so many calls and they were helping as many as 20,000 people evacuate. They just couldnt get t
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