And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 6am in singapore, pm in london. And 6 in the morning in hong kong, where clashes between police and protesters continued into the night, after protests during the day that saw several people seriously injured. Violence broke out between pro democracy and pro china demonstrators in the north point neighbourhood. Thousands defied a ban to attend the rally, and in Response Police fired tear gas and Water Cannons. Nick beake reports from hong kong we have now seen 99 days of this. Violence the authorities just cant extinguish. Hardcore pro democracy activists are not backing down, in what is a chinese city, even setting alight the polices latest weapon to try to wash away this protest movement. The police have decided enough is enough. Theyre making use of water cannon as well as the tear gas. Its worked for a time, but weve just seen that these hard core of protesters just
And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, and 1am in london. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. With me is bob mcnally, president of Rapidan Energy group in washington. He served in the Bush Administration as its top energy advisor. Hejoins me now. Thank you so much forjoining us. Firstly, the us says that this was an unprecedented attack and indeed there has been a very significant market movement. How significant is this, in your view . Well, it is justified. Crude oil now in asia is trading 10 or more. That is justified. The folks who atta
And russia yesterday deciding to extend the production cuts and the iaea saying the demand outlook is slightly downgraded on lower first half estimates. Non opec increased in 600,000 barrels per day. You can see brent is up on the back of that, 52. 19. It was around 51. 7 when i looked at that. Oil is climbing a little bit more. Reminder yesterday, we found out audi plan to extend production cuts for another six months. Watch oil. We will bring you those trump headlines. That is giving a nice risk to the euro dollar, the dollar weakening for a fifth straight day. The euro is soaring amidst classified information donald trump made or may not have given to a russian diplomat. We are looking for the mexican peso strengthening and the south korean yuan strengthening. We will get more on your markets, but lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Reporter we start with europe. Angela merkel has vowed to work with macron. That as the german chancellor hosted the newly elected frenc
At 8 30 a. M. , it is u. S. Economic data as we will get housing permits for the month of april. Manufacturing employment and the number of hours worked last month. At 10 00, jp morgan holds its annual Shareholders Meeting in wilmington, delaware. At 11 30, the u. S. Treasuries will sell for 5 billion in fourweek bills. Back to our top story about what President Trump did or did not say to the Russian Foreign minister last week and whether put National Security at risk. Reportedington post information that trump disclose information with the Russian Foreign minister last week and subsequently the times follow that story. Our National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster said that he did not disclose sources or methods. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. The president and the foreign minister even reviewed a range of common threats, including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time, where intelligence sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclo
As i told the Prime Minister, we welcome singapores interest in purchasing aircraft and we will also explore the possibility of singapore troops training on qualm. We will continue to strengthen regional opportunities in line with what we agreed to earlier this year. We are reaffirmed our shared commitment to bringing a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully, including the south china sea. We encourage Economic Growth and innovation among our economies. With a little over a decade, trade between our two countries has grown more than 50 . We are collaborating to jumpstart greater digital innovation, research and development into technology, and data to improve and promote smart cities concept that can improve the daily lives of our citizens. We will do more to connect our vibrant startup communities so that an engineer in singapore collaborates more easily with Silicon Valley or austin, texas. Trade is an issue that stirs great passi