The u. K. Chancellors at the detailed plans to cut 12 billion pounds off of welfare spending as he delivers the first fully conservative budget in nearly 20 years. Caroline i am caroline hyde. Ryan i am ryan chilcote. It is 1 00 p. M. In hong kong. Caroline chinas benchmark index has seen its biggest intraday fall in years, plunging 1. 8 . Thats amid a continuing route, leaving only 43 of the entire stock market frozen. This is a day after hong kong and chinese shares entered a bear market. Ryan shares on the shanghai composite have plunged by ron 30 this year since the peak about a month ago. David english is in hong kong where the hang seng index has also plummeted. David . David a very good morning to you guys. It was a very eventful morning session, and right now its 1 00 p. M. In hong kong, and we are just getting underway. Just to recap what has happened. About our before the Chinese Market opened, you had this flurry of headlines Chinese Companies announcing that their shares ar
You are very welcome to the pulse. European leaders are speaking openly about the possibility of a grexit and say they now have a detailed plan in place in case black scenario happens. They have said sunday is the deadline for greece to accept a rescue or risk in booted out of the euro. For mroore we are joined by guy johnson in athens and hans nichols in berlin. Hes i nn brussels, excuse me,. Lets talk to guy. Guy, obviously, these banks are still close. Whats it like in greece at the moment . Guy well, people are beginning to wonder when they are going to open. What is interesting is youve got money pooling in certain areas of the economy and we need the Banking System to restart in order for this money to start moving around the system in the way this meant to do. The question is come next week what kind of money are we talking about . There is deadline come sunday. People are talking openly about a grexit. It is not going to be the flicking of us which. Youre not going to see greec
Brendan the Chinese Government seems to be in full panic trying to throw things at this to see what they can fix. Tom we mentioned barclays news. Jenkins is out at barclays. Here is vonnie quinn. Vonnie another round of Government Support measures the benchmark shanghai composite index is down more than 30 since june 12 through investors have suffered more than 3 trillion loss on paper. The Chinese Government has taken steps to prop up more cap stocks. At one point participants were locked out of 71 of the market. Foreign investors continue to sell holdings at a record pace. European leaders have given greece a new deadline. Expect a rescue plan by sunday or face being kicked out of the euro. The greek government is told to come up with new proposals. Angela merkel says she is not optimistic. This morning at the european parliament, the greek Prime Minister promised to deliver. Prime minister Singh Tsipras i am confident in the few days we are able to meet the obligations of the crucia
Further support. A final deadline of sunday to prepare a new package of reforms as the block is prepared for a grexit. Microsoft is taking an ax to its work force again. The fresh layoffs will impact the hardware and smartphone business it acquired from nokia last year. In a surprise move barclays announced the departure of Anthony Jenkins. The search for a new ceo takes place. He said we are leaving value on the table and a new approach is required. He added that independent executives had concerned about jenkins leadership style for sometime. Shares under his tenure out performed all over u. K. Banks climbing 51 during that period. In the early years stock gains were boosted by the decision to side step government have since declined. Heres a few reasons why. In may 2014 a result of a Strategic Review lead to the bank cutting 9,000 job. In june 2014 the new York Attorney general opened a dark pools probe and in 2014 they were fined 2. 4 million for forex rigging. The change at the to
Meeting but it does seem hike this really is. He should have said really twice. Or at least three times maybe. This is it. Really really. This is like whackamole. Markets that go down they find a way and its a lot of times not what youre focussing on. Did you think once again well be 8 down . They have a plunge Protection Team like us but its not working at this point. Down 40 the market is over there in three weeks or four weeks. Still up 10 on the year. And 70 in the last 12 months. Its like the wild west. We shouldnt extrapolate everything over here from whats happening over there. But 180 points here or 8 there, maybe thats commensurate. Well wall street journal today, stocks plunged scarier than greece and thats written by the head of emerging markets and global macro at global stanley investment management. They make the point which is hotly debated in the market to what extent does the market crash in china have a Ripple Effect on the chinese economy and that has a Ripple Effect