The philippines are a little nder pressure. Alaysiania down. 4 . Were we have seen substantial increases. 130 billion u. S. Dollars. Earmark story today. Chances are this will be making stories in the next few hours. Hang seng. As long as we close at or around or above these levels, we will be entering a bull market for hong kong for the hang seng index. We erased the losses for the year. T is up. 5 . 107. 22. Ese yen, back six weeks to the start of retrieved all of he strength. Last thing before i go, i max china. We have to mention that shares re up today. The good earnings, numbers they reported, doesnt mean they have taken it away from future growth. It is good now. Good in the future. Expansion in the First Six Months of this year. Imax china up 8 here in hong kong. Rish . Rishaad thanks for that. What is the time at the moment in cleveland, ohio, it is two minutes past 10 on wednesday evening. Donald trump of course the ficial nominee now for the r. N. C. To represent republicans
I love that question. If they get a be key getting into friday. Ofathan for me, the bank england leaves forecasts unchanged. The overwhelming majority expecting rate cuts this thursday. Thats going to be fascinating. Alix fascinating communications coming out of the boe. That trickle down into european stocks. Rally into the recent coming off the biggest monthly gains this october. The hsbc Global Equity strategist ben laidler. Lots of red on monday. Thethan lots of green in last five months. The s p 500 has been win, win, win. To kick off this mondays trading is softer in europe, the ftse down about. 1 . The dax marginally in negative territory. Alrightx market, its on this one throughout the week. The cable rate with a weaker pound off the back of some pretty weak manufacturing data coming out of the United Kingdom ahead of that bank of england rates decision. Is coming thursday. The commodity market is just wow, wow, wow. The biggest monthly drawing some down as weith wti kick off a
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Tom, we had a little bit of eurozone data out. Continue watching a lot of the banks. We are waiting for Standard Chartered. Hsbc all about costcutting. I do not see how that could be a good strategy. Costcutting is front and center but all the focus is away from Standard Chartered on those European Banks. Bid thisbit of a morning. Francine they do a little bit. Certainly some of the stronger banks. Standard chartered coming up, we have to look at pretax, worse than expected. It is the Capital Buffers that investors are watching out before out for. Ct1all, that first half capital ratio 13 13. 1 . Pretax a little bit below. Capitalirst half ct1 ratio 13. 1 . Tom Standard Chartered is an emerging market proxy. Youve got the mexican peso out to to 19. That is all you need to know about emerging markets. Ian markets more than Central America but you make a very good point that this is not really a u. K. Bank. They are headquartered here but it is an asian bank. Lets get to first word news.
But the hang seng and kospi reopened after the Lunar New Year holiday. South korea down 3 . Shanghai remains closed until the end of the week. Meanwhile, the dollar falling below 112 yen for the First Time Since late 2014. The level of the dollar and the spread between Interest Rates, the did you see the ten year . Its 162. Hard to believe that we are back there. Its sliding by tremendous amounts, by the day. I mean, it was at, i dont know, its like ten basis points lower today than it was yesterday on this prospect of negative rates. Do you really think that she was going to satisfy on the markets yesterday . No. Going into it she was never going to get what people fully wanted. No way. There were some people who wanted her to completely capitulate and walk back from the move in december. Not only did she not do that, she said we have no plans to cut rates again. But theres also nothing that she could have said to asewage the market. She could have said well do more qe and the market