Close to current levels. Joining us now from our amsterdam euro is the Senior Energy economist at abm amro. Unchanged does not sound so that in a world where everybody is concerned that the economy is teetering on a recession. Do you share that view . Say i dont fully agree. We are a little bit more bearish to be quite honest. Especially after last weeks opec meeting, i think that agnal was rather mixed and little bit disappointing, actually. Saudisderstand why the think it should be 50 it should be 65, but i have my doubts whether we see that. Anna good morning to you. Let me ask you about the impact of the price we have at the moment on the ipo taking place tomorrow of saudi aramco. What are your expectations . We have seen expectations paired back. Creation of the worlds most valuable company. Yes indeed. It was a positive. In that respect. It was well oversubscribed. The price at the top of the range. Indeed, on the other end, it was disappointing because saudi arabia expected more
Protesters in hong kong and beijing promises retaliation if it becomes law. Alibaba set to raise 11 billion in a second listing next week. It marks hong kongs biggest share sale since 2010. Coming from behind, Jeremy Corbyn holds his own against Boris Johnson in the first tv debate in the u. K. Election, a snap poll puts the leaders at almost even on the night. Good morning. Matt good morning. We are getting headlines that hsbc is going to replace its head of Investment Banking, so those of you working at the Investment Bank at hsbc, at least according to the financial times, looks set to get a new boss. The head will move to a nonexecutive role according to the f role ft and he will get a replacement. We will bring you the developments on this story as the new head of Investment Banking those into the Hong Kong Shanghai banking corporation. Less than half an hour from the european open and lets look quickly at what is going on in terms of the risk picture this morning, the treasury yi
Leading losses. One thing not on sale this black friday is apparently health care. Boris johnson says he would walk away from a u. S. Trade deal if it included the nhs. We are 30 minutes away from the start of the european trading day. Welcome to the program. It is 7 31 here in london. This is what the futures look like at this hour. They look weaker. We are expecting the fall of the Asian Session into negative territory. It has been light in volumes. The markets were closed yesterday. Today, we see a shorter trading session as a result. Do not expect to see the volumes that are normal. U. S. Futures also pointing downward. Clutching our ongoing concerns around trade, so lets think about where we have been in the Asian Session. Lots of interesting theories as to what is going on. There is a narrative around trade. We talked about how trade tensions, and particularly President Trump signing that bill around hong kong, how that threatens to weigh on the conversation. That was an issue ye
The start of equity trading. Here in europe, but as ever, our coverage is global. Lets check in with what we need to be watching for. We are live in hong kong and paris to give a rundown of the stories you need to focus in on. We have Global Coverage coming in from the team as we focus in on the weekend events in hong kong. A budget to talk about in saudi arabia. An protest activity in france that matt was just referencing. Lets go first to stephen engle, who joins us with the latest protest activity. Give us a rundown of what has been happening. Question is how long will these protests continue . Ongoingeen six months with violence over the weekend and late yesterday we had the first major march again from the ch rf, the organizers of those large million plus person marches back in june. They have had their applications for marches denied by the police up until this weekend. It has basically been carried off without incident. There was some vandalism at the high court and some graffit
Bill imposing sanctions on chinese officials. Donald trump and Emmanuel Macron share Tense Exchange over turkey as World Leaders meet in the u. K. Brinarry page and sergey step down as the head of alphabet with Sundar Pichai stepping over stepping on sco. As ceo. Matt good to be back. We have seen real risk off sessions. Tuesday,nday and yesterday really lost a lot of ground. Now, we are down right there. We turned lower as we head into trade. Even though we see green arrows across equity futures, you do see investors starting to buy up again. Young see a lot of movement on see futures, but you do futures up a quarter of 1 heard quarter of 1 and. 2 on mastec s p. S p. The nasdaq as if theooks riskoff mood we have seen december isthrough continuing despite positivity in the futures you. 2. Point to. Hong kong is the worst performer renewed focus performer. Renewed focus on trade. Keep an eye on your bloomberg as a result of present trump being here in earlier in the day. A focus on trad