And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it
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One progress review should happen soon. More signs offers china strengthening rebound. Sales jumped by one third last quarter to 22 billion. The company insists it is no threat to u. S. National security. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up on this final friday session of the day. Lets get over to sophie he was taking a closer look. What are we watching . Vibes coming through with futures largely higher. We could see some weakness in korea following the drop that we saw for the kospi. On the docket today were looking at cpi from japan. Nikkei futures move slightly higher this morning, while the yen is trading below the 106 handle. Pulling up the chart on the terminal, we are watching to see if tech will bounce back in the region after thursdays selloff which saw the kospi with a big loss and the worst day for the regional tech index since march. Samsung took a hit on the south outlook for to prices. Prices. Outlook on chip potential hits on huawei and delayed 5g. That could hurt
Struggle just to keep up. Look. I think that all of these have one thing in common. They all believe that the future is a little bit better and a little bit faster to come than many of us believe it is rather remarkable to see a consensus overnight from companies that basically say, you know what . Darn covid full speed ahead that includes boeing boeing has what i regard as being a very bullish scenario involving good cash, involving the possibility of returning to much more flight in, lets say, the next year. And even after 1,600 flights of the 737 i dont think theyre going to call it maxx anymore i dont know i think were growing to have a hard time keeping us down today unless faang keep us us down because the hearings go badly. We have a couple of guidance. Ebay the other one that raised guidance. Starbucks had a lot of things to say analysts recommend stocks its an exciting time. In a lot of ways, youre with a tesla call it turns out tell la sla is goi be a big car company thats no
Reopening. We will speak with a Lieutenant Governor. She will be joining us. Partner chairman per perspective on the company front. We are getting some data right now. Existing home sales, monthtomonth on month, 9. 7 , that is significantly worse than the market was anticipating. This is the month on month number. The Economist Survey suggested the number could be 5. 6 . Set ofgnificantly worse data coming out of the u. S. Housing market. U. S. Sales coming through at 3. 91 in totality. So, the u. S. Housing market is in a word place. In some ways because of government assistance. We have not seen a collapse in prices. This is transaction. Prices are fairly buoyant. Later on this year, things could get trickier. At the moment, looking at the monthtomonth, that number worse than anticipated. Alix it raises the question, where do people want to live as areas reopen. New york, as we mentioned, and during the second phase. 300,000 more people returning to work today. Outdoor dining, and pe