New protests in hong kong. No cigar. Shinzo abes Ruling Coalition wins the upper house but has failed a getting a super majority. We will have the results of the reaction. After a volatile week, stocks closed lower on friday amidst news of mounting tensions in the persian gulf. The Federal Reserve will limit a rate cut to a quarter of a point. Sophie we are setting up for a soft start to a busy week. On thursday, we will get south korean gdp numbers, ahead of which we will get export data in about an hours time. We are moving into high gear on the earnings front, with about 200 Japanese Companies reporting this week. Watching asahi. Switching up the board to check in on oil. Persian gulf tensions are extending a rally. Theleen lets check in on first world news. The Hong Kong Government has denounced the actions of protesters who targeted chinas main headquarters in the city as a peaceful mass rally turned violent late sunday evening. Gas asfired tear demonstrators converged on beijings
Pairing of the losses which, not that long ago, were lower than 1 . We did get the weekly crude inventories report. Distillate, hope that there will be a future drawdown in crude as well. We saw Oil Prices Move lower after that. Ago and ahile little while ago, moving to unchanged. The other Market Movement of the day has to do with the British Ground british pound. It is moving lower compared to the u. S. Dollar. Volatility surrounding a possible u. K. Exit from the euro. If you take a look at the history and look at the range of the pound in previous times of 2008,ng crisis, 1982 and that is what some traders are looking at as guidance for what could potentially happen this time. Alix lets check in on the bloomberg first word news. Mark Chris Collins of new york and Duncan Hunter of california are now on board. Hunter says we dont need a policy hawk as president. We need a leader. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton hopes to advance or leave on senator Bernie Sanders end. Mrs. On s