Protesters brought the citys financial district to a standstill. Teargas disrupting the commute for a second consecutive day. Executive carrie lam says she still hopes district elections will be held as scheduled. We still hope we can hold the elections and try our very best to do so because it is an important election to respect and safeguard, but theres the issue of safety in order, so we have to work hard to satisfy these two requirements. Alix 20 meet on the phone from hong kong is karen joining me on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh. What happens next . Karen carrie lam urging order, and at the same time, we had two days of really jarring images and clashes, especially here in the financial hub. These arent images weve seen before. This feels like a bit of an escalation. This is something that led police this afternoon to warn that the city was on the brink of total breakdown. Carrie lam talking about how she still hopes district elections will be held in a couple of weeks.
Exchange, we bring a market moving news from around the world. Kong ifus from hong enda curran, we have Annmarie Hordern and emma chandra, and Michael Mckee joining us in new york. I want to show the slowdown. Bloombergs enda curran has more. Enda . Enda i think it was quite weak across the board, alex. The worst single month meeting retail002, which saw the sales side of things confirming that even though a lot of it was due to the slowdown in the car market, the auto market, there is a feeling that consumers are starting to track as well. The activeixed, investors side of it, we saw that lacking, pretty soft reading, setting up the economy for a pretty slow in to the year. Putting pressure on the government to respond. Alix thanks so much, enda curran come in hong kong. Saudi Oil Facilities were attacked. Annmarie hordern have the latest. Tomarie that is right here 5 of global supply, 5. 7 Million Barrels a day, but half of the kingdoms net exports. The biggest infrastructure that d
Opened. It looked like we were headed for 1 plus drop. Lets get the details on what happened overnight. Time now for Global Exchange to bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us on the phone from france is bloombergs maria tadeo. From hong kong, we have enda curran. Here in new york, bloombergs michael mckee. We start in france with the g7 summit wrapping up. We just heard from President Trump and indian Prime Minister narendra modi. The highlights from this morning, and what happened over the last 72 hours . Maria the conversation here was mostly about trade. European officials were concerned that perhaps donald trump would go off stripped would go off script and could signal a recession in the trade war. Goodid he had a very meeting with angela merkel. Remember, the relationship between the two of them has been rocky at times. He also said hes looking forward to working with the european union. The other big surprise was that very short trip from irans for
Time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us in singapore is enda caringlynd hong kong, from hong kong, karen leigh from westminster, anna edwards. Trade talks with the u. S. Are expected to resume in early october. Enda curran has more. Da obviously a signal here that talks are going to go ahead. Weve been waiting for some kind of breakthrough, and now weve had a statement from the Commerce Ministry that there was a telephone call that included china vice premier liue h china vice permit or china vice premier liu he. Theres a little less committal on the chinese side, but there is still a healthy dose of skepticism required. A lot of economists say that these two sides have a long way to go before they reach any kind of meaningful deal. Duember, more tariffs are in october and december. We had some commentary from the global times today outlining that both sides are in a deadlock, and it is in both of their interests