6 00 here in london. Lets get to the markets. We are without the volumes from the United States during yesterdays sessions. King date we had no trading in stocks or treasuries. We are getting back into those today. Msci asiapacific by 0. 4 . General picture in asia continues a positive one, continuing the best start since 2006. The dollar against the again , we saw the again being pushed up. Have halted five days of advances in the japanese currency partly because of what we heard from the japanese finance minister. Moves in fx markets are a problem. Price, over 70 a barrel, even though it is retreating. Fx is going to be a focus , what happens next with the pboc, that bank of japan, and the bank of korea. Traders have been spun into a whole new momentum. Record long positions on the euro. , two is a counterbalance sides to this market. The long positions are the longest we have seen. It is estonia focusing on bond purchases, they could end after september. Dramatize theover situation.
Selloff coming out of the united states. This mixill throw into as well what has come out and the last hour from carl icahn. Interesting to see him backing trump. Inis a guy well followed terms of his views around the markets and have Central Banks and governments influence those markets. This is what he had to say in the video he released about the low rate environment. Why should they raise rates . It is almost a rhetorical question. There are so many reasons. Low rates are almost by definition building bubbles. Real estate bubbles. Guy one of the stories riling the asia markets right now is glencore. I want to show you one chart. I want to show you this one here. It highlights what is happening with glencores debt and equity. The market capitalization is in yellow. The total debt is in green. You have yellow above green, yellow above green for the last four years. The problem is we are now down here. This is the current equity valuation of glencore. This is the debt story. That is s
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