Francine good afternoon if you are watching from asia. This was a couple of days after the news from the saudi attack on the infrastructure of saudi aramco. Bank raised its benchmark rate to 1. 50. They had flagged they would raise rates. Wereeason why people questioning whether they would do it is because the World Economy is more uncertain than a couple of months ago and you see a lot more dovishness from the ecb and the fed. Toit is quite difficult raise Interest Rates in this kind of environment. Eurodollar at 1. 1, and because it has been a very big week in oil, we have a look at the oil price. Norwegian krone on the back of raised, having a significant move to 9. 85. , we speak to the governor of the norwegian central bank. Dont miss that interview just after 10 30 a. M. London time. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in your city. New sanctions against iran are coming. This is from President Donald Trump in response to the attack on a key oil facility. Michael pompeo
Anna welcome to the program, you are watching countdown live from london. Lets put into context everything we have seen over the last 24 hours. We have seen a move back into the perceived safe haven place, although i should say the yen is bouncing around this morning in the session. That is nervousness around the u. S. Session yesterday. Lets reach out to where the u. S. Session took us. That came from what could be a good place, from the data. On the jobs front we got the survey in the u. S. Yesterday that shows that openings have increased the most since the year 2000. But that got investors wondering how quickly the Federal Reserve is therefore going to increase Interest Rates. That to the edge off the rest trading day yesterday. That would pick up in the asian sessions, and we see weakness coming in the session. All of that concern about the higher Interest Rates to me at a time where we increasingly see signs of slowdown, in part of the global economy. We had a number of clues tod
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