Being unhappy with policy. The drum beats louder for rate cuts. And people working closely together to protect interests in the escalating trade war, we are live in bangkok. You a check oft the markets at the close. It was a turbulent day with not only iranu. S. Tensions but futures and options expiring together on quadruple witching day. There was a record intraday high only to close lower by. 1 , industrials and real estate stocks leading the declines. We have one sector gaining ground, the energy sector. The biggest winner of the session. Wti rally 10 last week on heightening middle east tensions. U. S. Futures up. 2 . Lets see how we are setting up. Sophie with the event risks sex g20, we could see asian asian stocks set for a softer open. Look at kiwi shares continuing to climb while flipping the board, checking the kiwi dollar, it is slightly higher for a succession as funds go bearish the currency ahead of the rbnz decision. The kiwi could be limited if central bank stays dovish
Wont be moved onto a barge off the coast of dorset until next week. The ministry of justice will today publish new guidelines that will see drug possession and shoplifting offenders let off with cautions. Its part of off with cautions. Its part of an attempt to ease the record backlog in the courts. Backlog in the courts. And well bring you your latest weather forecast. Latest weather forecast. Heavy rain and strong winds. Its not looking very like today, is there any improvements on the horizon. 7 ill have the on the horizon . Ill have the full forecast coming up. Good morning to you. Im stephen dixon. And im Ellie Costello. And and im Ellie Costello. And this is breakfast on gb news news. News. And should we kick off just a little bit about what we need to do to save the country and save the planet . Yes, lets i think thats a really good, good place to start because, you know, i mean, you know, all green agenda and know, all the green agenda and everyones very concerned. Do we save t
What am i talking about . As you might expect, not a great deal of Market Reaction. This came out as expected across the board. The only big surprise was in manufacturing, 15,000 manufacturing jobs which is three times what was expected. It is a rounding error. The 215 even though thousand number was lower than what economists expected, the previous number was revise higher. It was a net increase of 14,000. Those looking for an Interest Rate increase in september probably got what they wanted. Erik the action has been in twoyear treasuries. Now,73 basis points right in excess thats where people are pricing in the september rate hike. The fed funds future shows a probability of about 60 that we will see a rate moved by the fed in september which is next month. They have their meeting on the 1516th. Probabilityied based on fed funds futures was almost zero in the middle of july. Scarlet so it depends on how much it moves. Erik its more or less as expected but healthy job growth helping t
Word of the day for traders. Chinese stocks extended the worst fiveday drop since 1996. The marx apparently unconvinced by the peoples bank of china decision to cut markets rate the apparently unconvinced. Stoxx 60019 indices are down here lets cross to our chief asia correspondent. Enda, a very good day to you. Markets simply unconvinced is the word. Enda unconvinced is exactly right. What the Global Markets wanted out of china was a Circuit Breaker. There is a feeling this crisis began in china. Dona needed to intervene, to something. It does not look like what they have done has been enough. The central bank will need to cut rates further. That the government will need to do more to shore up the chinese economy and turn sentiment around. The positive thing is that china has monday of more ammunition in its arsenal if needed china has plenty more ammunition in its arsenal if needed. Francine what is next . I guess the question is how much will they intervene . Enda well, so this is o
Authorizing Prime Minister may. We trade, to where a half hours until the open. Robert shiller Robert Shiller coming out and saying stocks are way overpriced. S p futures off by three points. Over 2. 6 r yield around the highest level since 2014. The dollar is a touch stronger as well as crude. I want to focus on what is happening in the u. K. You have the ftse 500 moving higher despite the fact the pound is getting hit or because the pound is getting hit. Up. 5 and dollar pound can dollar at an eight week low. He have to look at that weather you have to look at that to see i would be remiss if i didnt touch on valiant. This is a twoday chart all what happened yesterday when we heard they were selling out. That stock down 15 in nearing the record lows. How low can it really go . We will dissect to that later. David he doubled down and now it does it did not work out. Alix so much drama for so long and now he does it. David this morning in england, we had surprising news out of the bank