Languishing in storage. An president xi jinping confirms china supports carrie lam in hong kong, but says the protests create the grimmest and most complicated challenge. Paul all right. We have the market open here in australia. It is highly likely the asx will make some record highs today. But we have a staggered open here so it is fairly quiet right now. Just modest increases that we are seeing. We are going to keep a close eye on westpac, now facing its 4th investigation into these Money Laundering allegations just filed by the banking regulator today, announcing it will be investing getting whether law. Ac broke the we have new zealand higher by almost. 5 . Was packed new zealand shares still in a trading halt. U. K. Futures looking flat right now, a similar story for u. S. Futures. But that may well change during the course of the day, especially after we saw some very positive gains on the u. S. Equity markets tradeinspired during yesterdays trade. We will keep you uptodate as t
the road surfaces will warn out. it has been down, some of it, for 30 years. it was so frustrating stuck in traffic every day. we have major mechanical issues. we re kind of stuck in the middle of the a1. never ever happened in my life before. there was a lot on my shoulders. the amount of language has been atrocious. i can see you all super keen. you ve got six hours to do what we need to do. time is not our friend now. this is the biggest project both value wise and duration wise i ve ever worked on. there is an perception there is not a lot happening on roadworks but to have people on site every night and the public are sleeping. it involves installing a new lane. i don t think people fully realise how much people do use ai. it s for things like food, clothing, going to hospitals and to improve them roads, it s very good for the community and for the northeast as a whole. hi, everyone. my responsibility is environmental compliance for the ai improvement schemes. we ve got
Alongside Queen Camilla, will visit a Cancer Centre, meeting patients and staff and migrants missing in the uk. A government report has revealed that the home office has lost contact with more than half of migrants that were set for deportation to rwanda. So that the kings visit. So that the kings visit. Great, and its going to happen right in our lifetime. So stay tuned to us. Were expecting it well, in about an hour and a half. Yeah. And i think its fabulous interesting that hes going to a Cancer Centre because we know whats happening with Catherine Middleton in his own battle with cancer will be supported by Queen Camilla. And of course, that breaking news this morning about the stabbings, here in the south of england this morning, hainault area. The footage is pretty dramatic. Were working out at the moment what we can and cant show you of that event. Gbnews. Com yoursay is the message board this morning to let us know all of your thoughts. First, though, the very latest. News. Ver
Young was among the speakers. An hour and 45 minutes. Hi, i know everybody is excited about the budget scoring, but im asking to ask everyone to take their seats. Thank you all so much for coming, particularly on an intermittently rainy friday afternoon. We are so excited to be here for the launch of the budget lab. My name is marcy gimble, im with our chief economist and president , our hope is to bring attention to the way that budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process, bring a new perspective with focus on innovation and transparency. Were incredibly excited for danny to get up here shortly and share some of the research that weve been working on. Before i do that, im going to briefly embarrass our team by pointing them out because without them this would not have been possible. We have rich, our director of policy analysis, ernie our director of economics, john rico, associate director of policy analysis, harris epsteiner, associate director of economics.
Or two if they do hold rates and that decision is expected any second now. Liam, if they do hold them, could we start seeing rates starting to come down maybe towards the 4 area in the near future. 7 future . Im literally checking my phone here, pip, as we speak. You keep your eyes if you. Liam we are being told now it has been held. Its been held. At 5. 25. Your its been held. At 5. 25. Your reaction . Thats thats very, reaction . Thats thats very, very interesting. Whats going to happen now is that the pound will likely fall because traders were expecting an Interest Rate rise. On balance, what will happen now is so called two year swap rates will change. So Mortgage Companies quite quickly will start competing and offering cheaper loans. Weve already had Mortgage Rates coming down over recent weeks because of an expectation that this would be the peak in Interest Rates if indeed there was a rate rise. If we look at my graphic now, i hope its on the screen. You can hope its on the sc