Thursday, the hong kong democracy drama takes a new turn. Backing the protesters. Retaliate,tened to if he did. The yuan also fell. Boris johnsont conservatives will win a healthy victory. A quick shery a quick check of the market. Japanese yen the strengthening. Still at that 109 level. This is after six sessions of weakness. The longest losing streak since 2018. We are seeing some of that Risk Appetite reading with u. S. Features also losing ground. How the kospi trading is down half a percent. The korean won has been weakening against the u. S. Dollar, and we continue to see so we do have the bank of korea policy decision on friday. I have to say that the aussie dollar is under pressure. Keenly stocks are up and rising for a fifth consecutive session. Lets get the first word news with su keenan. Strengthened as a poll suggested the conservative party might win a majority in the next election. Boris johnson is morning that aere could be there is real chance of no overall victory and
Hong kong Police Surround protesters at a university standoff. Chief executive carrie lam calls for a peaceful resolution. We are live in the city. Powell goes to the white house. President trump says he protested against high Interest Rates in a meeting with the fed chairman. Boston fed president tells bloomberg the central bank might already have gone too far. And emirates exclusive. President tim clark tells bloomberg he is still interested 737boeing seven dreamliner but does not see the 737 max 8 getting back in the skies this year. We are talking about maybe the First Quarter calendar next year, possibly even a bit longer. In the end, i will repeat the question. The only entities which will sanction the flying of this aircraft are the regulators. It is not boeing. Matt we are less than a halfhour from the european open this morning. I just wanted to quickly point out that we are getting a little bit of a comeback in gold. This is the u. S. Dollar price over the last three days. Yo
Sanctions. Partslan to sell vehicle to help its turnaround and get back on track. It is also still looking for a new ceo. Shery lets check the markets. U. S. Futures unchanged at the moment. U. S. Stocks struggled throughout the session. S p 500 slumping after the fed rate decision. Markets taking it is a hawkish cut. In fact it did recover towards the end but it finished basically unchanged. We also had Energy Stocks dragging on the index. Crude falling for the last two sessions after that 15 gain we saw monday. At the moment unchanged, below 60 a barrel. Financials gaining ground today. We had yields plunging after the fed intervened and the repo markets injecting cash to soothe the money markets. That was paired back a little bit after the fed rate decision. 10yearold 10 year yield finishing around 1. 80. Paul some breaking news on the bloomberg terminal. The Hong Kong Monetary authority is cutting its base rate to 2. 25 . Pretty much as expected after the fed move today. So we have
And that it is financially insane to buy anything but an electric car. Hong kong is bracing for more mass protest as the extradition bill goes before them. Breaking news out of south korea. We have the Unemployment Rate coming in at 4 for the month of may. Slightly lower than was anticipated. 4. 1 . It is also lower than in the previous month, when we saw 4. 1 , the jobless rate. We have seen, when it comes in south korea, really strong growth when it comes public sector, jobs. The government trying to support the economy and working towards job creation. In the private sector, we are seeing some of that weakness. We are expecting budget coming from south korea to help job creation in the future. For now, the Unemployment Rate at or percent the month of may. Markets in asia are shifting up and go to sophie in hong kong. Some midweek caution may emerge after the best threeday gain for asian talks since january. Kiwi shares giving back some of tuesdays game. Game. Gain. Do bok is to rele