Out this new silk road. Whats the environment like in hong kong with the overhang of andchina trade war, the political unrest that led to a lot of demonstration in the last couple of weeks . Can carrie lam shift the focus and gain more confidence among the investing committee as well as government officials. Here more than 5000 expected in the next day or so. We have a lot of guest. Lona ng and simon loong are joining us this hour. They try to build smart cities around southeast asia. Talking about the opportunities for the also simon loong joining us in the 11 00 hour. Talk about fintech, commercial banks and the like. Rishaad lets find out what is going on market wise. The position we find ourselves in overall. Looking at the nikkei up half of 1 . Someang seng seeing positivity, asian stocks hedging higher and higher at the moment. We did have that late rally among u. S. Counterparts. Japan, south korea in hong kong. Chinese stocks under pressure over there. S p futures slipping back
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