The upside. This is down to wall street, partly traders getting wages on that. The fed hiking rates. This whole talk of chinese stimulus is rekindling some of that risk sentiment. We are talking aboutas far as the bond market, we have a steady picture for treasuries. Weve got the 10 year yielding 4. 6 , where we were yesterday. Weve also got an open in thailand, having a look at bangkok and seeing what is at the start of the trading day. Its a by. 25 . Seeing a pushback taking place with the recent stimulus plan. 15 billion handout in thailand from the new prime minister. Some of the Rating Agency suggesting that if they dont get growth out of that, they may be looking at a downgrade. Its about digesting that, its continue to strengthen. It by nearly one barth in the last week. The fed speak, it is center stage. Speculating that the central bank will hurd well head to another pause as far as Interest Rates go. We are on track for a soft landing. Inflation has come down quite a bit. The
The yen hits a fresh 34 your low reaching 156 after the boj colds rates steady and tweaks its language on the bond buying. We bring you the latest reaction at head of the Governors Press conference. Wall street higher thanks to a boost from big tech, alphabet and microsoft shares surge on earnings beats as fuels demand. Hopes of dampened as the u. S. Economy slows well price pressures move higher, traders pare rate cut bets as the focus shifts to bce data out today. You put from the tech story certainly on the earnings front. We will break down the gun story as we lead up to the conference 7 30 u. K. Time. The opitimism coming through, alphabet coming through this first dividend ever and to Share Buyback as well, and it is proving both of these companies that their investments and i are now paying off. European stocks pointed up by. 6 of 1 . Ftse 100 futures as copper pops up higher on the session. S p futures building on the optimism around the tech story looking to gains of. 8 of 1 a
Here the dow fell 300 points on word of the attack, but we are modulating slightly. Treasury yields and crude as well oil prices in just a moment. Tenyear note at 4. 58 the expected run to safety. The question is is this performative to show we are retaliating. The reaction in the commodities market the initial reaction was steep and then we pared the gains. Crude is 82. 57 the story is in brent which surged above 90 a barrel. Were back below the level right now. As for gold, 2 2,395 that is unchanged. Bitcoin had the same reaction as we saw over the weekend with the initial strikes from iran. We had bitcoin now higher at 2. 4 64,882 as we await the halving which is expected over the weekend. Lets get a live report from raf sanchez in tel aviv. Raf, good morning. Reporter melissa, andrew, good morning for a week, the world has been waiting to see how israel would respond to the barrage of the iranian drones and missiles. We have an answer this morning and it doesnt appear at this momen
Absolutely, we had some snow on the beachin absolutely, we had some snow on the beach in scarborough, it shows how cold that area is. This is from scarborough. Another one from hartlepool. Weve seen lots of snow coming in from gotland for quite a few days now. As far as this evening and tonight is concerned, more snow showers on the way, at least the chance of them around eastern areas of the uk. For northern and eastern scotland, eastern counties of england, possibly into east anglia, perhaps even getting into the Home Counties and the south east as well. But we are only talking about flurries of snow. This is what it looks like around 6pm this evening, temperatures more or less what they we re temperatures more or less what they were yesterday, at least thats the forecast, around freezing. A couple of degrees above freezing across yorkshire, cold enough for some smoke. But notice we often mention the word wintry. Wintry means a little bit of rain with sleet, sometimes snow, and it ch