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government. protestors against covered 19 restrictions in the netherlands. clash were police in amsterdam, defying a ban on demonstrations. also this hour of fire causes serious damage to south africa. parliament building in cape town, and recovering mexico s last treasures ancient artifacts are heading home centuries after they were stolen. ah, thank you very much for joining as we begin in sudan where medical sources say at least 3 people have been killed during demonstrations in om dorman. it is the 12 major protests since the military cease power in october. earlier, internet services were cut and armed officers, bras, bridges, connecting the capital to the suburbs. they were trying to revenge the planned demonstrations, which were called in memory of protesters recently killed by security forces. will cross live to our correspondent mam advantage in cartoon in just a moment for the latest. but 1st, he but morgan has been out speaking to some of the protesters in th ....
and about-face. tesla plans to sell about $2 billion worth of stocks even though elon musk said it did not make sense just two weeks ago. we will get analyst insight. first let s take a look at how u.s. markets fared today. seems like we are coming off a little bit of the record highs on the s&p 500 index. getting some pull and bear cases. the index bucking that trend. chipmakers posting a decent rally on thursday. redia earnings, theya forecasting they are forecasting a strong number. what that means for the 10 year yield is your coming down about two basis points. i am hearing more and more that 2% is fair value but the flood of money rushing in pushing the bond prices higher. anith crude, up .7%, the highest since januaryu continue to see strengh around the bullishness of the crude oil market. yeah. looks like we are setting up for a quieter day. we have new zealand trading already. .1%. little more than features in sydney unchanged. much quieter day on the earning ....
made the and offload of assets in the united states. we are 30 minutes away from the open in china and hong kong and we are seeing this rally with stocks after the foundation day and trade comes back with more optimism overnight and you see the major u.s. markets back into the positive territory after the selloff we had and we talk about , buturn to volatility there is still a worry about a true recovery. this could just be a short-term bounce before another low. you have to imagine, based off of that magnitude in the move. you were talking about that and what came to mind is al sunday, they given six inches in front of your face and the numbers will shift to markets, depending on what it is and we saw this and we are coming off of highs with 3/10 of 1% and nobody has really jump and we have the asian we are seeing but it is not gangbusters. chilled has given a with the extremity of the selloff. doesn t it always? china. why it is you can see this running right hong ....
left in asia s once a dominant commodities trade off. kong markets are getting set to come back online after the lunar new year long weekend. chinese markets are still away until thursday. we take a look at what is going on in the hong kong stock exchange. in terms of a handover, not much of one after that stellar performance by asia shares on a monday driven largely by japanese equities that had their second best day of the year. we saw a little bit of a failure to extend those gains in the european session. we are also seeing u.s. futures trading down as well. let s take a look at where we are moving in terms of markets. a big week when it comes to markets. it over to sophie for a look at how things are going. ie: as you pointed out, u.s. futures are declining. taiwan and a vietnam also closed for the extended holiday. the nikkei and topics snap a topix snap amb three-day climb. seoul, and for decline. in kuala lumpur, stocks are sliding after a five-day bend. we wi ....
equity markets are higher and higher. the fed and the boj coming through. how do we phrase this? where we go from here? dust of the few minutes ago we were talking about how the boe and the bank of canada raising rates in the fourth quarter. requiring it to throw the conversation for next year. have a look at this chart, the question really is how much can the likes of the boe and the bank of canada, given how strong their currencies have become, continue to follow the fed on its current rate policy? at what point does a policy notngthen, and become inflationary? charts, whatat the it shows you is financial conditions in the united states in the bottom part. they are still fairly loose, and what that means is that despite the fact that you have a weak u.s. dollar and currencies like the pound trading at fairly strong levels, it is not yet creating conditions where you would actually see disinflation coming through. in other words, there is scope for a lot of these big ....