Good to have you with us the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has made a bid for one of its biggest european rivals the company says it has offered more than 36000000000. 00 for the london Stock Exchange Group Proposal envisions a Single Exchange joining europe with asia chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchange charles lee says the deal would redefine Global Capital markets for decades to come. And our financial correspondent conrad who isnt standing outside another exchange but this one in frankfurt conrad theres a business argument behind this bid from hong kong clearly but theres some very big political questions arent there. Absolutely stephen especially if we take into consideration whats going on right now in the streets of hong kong i mean the protests with beijing tightening its grip on hong kong one has to wonder what such a deal between the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the london Stock Exchange mean that the london Stock Exchange would eventually be dominated by communist china you
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The action. But come to business asia want to get jones will end the t. V. With us so the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has made a bid for one of its biggest european rivals the Organization Says it has offered more than 36000000000. 00 for the london Stock Exchange group the proposal envisions a Single Exchange joining europe with asia the chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchange childs lease says the deal would quote redefine Global Capital markets for decades to come. Now our financial correspondent susan is standing by at a nother eggs change out of the frankfurt Stock Exchange conrads interesting bit but given the current political tensions between hong kong and beijing and of course the brics of chaos here in europe what does all that mean. That means there are still a lot of question marks about whether or not this deal is really going to happen or not with beijing tightening its grip on hong kong more and more one really has to ask wouldnt such a deal mean that in the long run at l
Helsinki, Michael Mckee in new york, and Kevin Cirilli down in houston. There was a bloomberg report trumpday that president might have a ceasefire, and the president basically confirmed it. Pm johnson i see a lot of pres. Trump i see a lot of analysts seeing we will do a piecemeal. Easy or hard. Theres a deal or theres not a deal, but it is something we are considering. David there you heard it. It looks a little like the chinese may have responded this morning. Right. Xactly some economists are talking about a mini deal. Theres the prospect of china buying some u. S. Agricultural products and exempting pork and soybeans from additional tariffs. Expectedtowards these talks in october at a high level between both sides, there is a word of caution as well in all of this. China has always been in the market for more agricultural goods. Dating more pork in particular because of swine flu. Theres certainly evidence of some good gestures, but no signs of a major, sustainable breakthrough ju
Several sessions this week where weve broken even are gone higher on the session. Today looks to be no different. 3010 is where we are at, up two points. The 10 year yield is back at. 83 . That is a major move in treasuries. The yen has moved two big figures in the last session alone. One of the major rivers in the s p 500ay, ceepo today, cboe. It got a downgrade at bank of America Merrill lynch. It is now a sell. Guy we are continuing to see rotation in the equity market. German tenyear now at 48 basis points despite the cut yesterday from the ecb. European equities grinding higher, but that is not the story. It is below the surface. This move into cyclicals, this move into banks continues in europe. People are selling the big bond proxy names. Trading nestle, etc lower. This is a big unwind from what. We saw in. August the pound continues to catch from what we saw in august. The pound continues to catch a bid. 1. 2 440d now trading at on the idea of a hard brexit beginning to fade a