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Good gains across the board. We are having a look at what is happening and bringing up 5120 if you are a bloomberg user. Asian stocks going toward their best year since 2009. Asiapacific stocks outperforming globally speaking, the turquoise line, with europe doing well as well. And the american equities market looking like that. So over there come all of this is in u. S. Dollar terms. And this comes as fastgrowing market like china and india move, but each of these have the potential political crossroads. Some might say a high be to place. If they can go up. If that does happen, it could result in a cute pain accute pay for asia. This coming through for some of the market parties out there. Just under a half hour before we get underway in hong kong, but startinguala lumpur their session. What have we got . No pain so far with the asian equity markets, busy with success, that was the title of the chart you showed us. Checking stocks on wall street, good vibes putting asian equities on c ....
Election issue. Plus i am outside the hong kong legislative council. We will get the first policy address from carrie lam, expected to deliver comments on Affordable Housing issues, tax breaks for small businesses, reaching out to disenfranchise youth. Rishaad going over to steve shortly. Going to bring up a chart showing where the problems are when it comes to the property market, arguably the most expensive in the world. Withages have not kept up in housing market, which is turquoise, the white line average wages in hong kong. Be talking about a taxation system for business, the housing market, expected to announce a Publicprivate Partnership to expand access to firsttime buyers, public transport, a monthly travel subsidy of as much as 300 hong kong dollars a month. That speech in a couple of hours. Sophie it is costly to live here, so looking forward to what ....
Years women arguing that we need more grant money, more donor financing and that has all been great. What we knew the Human Capital project is to say look ministers of finance, we will put on a ranking of where you stand in terms of your stock of Human Capital and what you are doing to increase your Human Capital. And where you come out on this list may very well determine how quickly you grow. The dynamicange from one in which the developing countries wait for the supply of funds to come in which they are demanding the best way to improve Human Capital. Tom take that over to myanmar, how does the world bank as this china ms. Institution, how do you deal with one country whether its a border of turkey or syria or what weve seen in myanmar . We are very concerned about w ....
Not Much Movement on the face of things. Julie we are seeing another very tight trading range just as we saw, yesterday. Fiveandahalf and a half points is the swing in the s p 500. After a record close yesterday for all three major avenues, any gains today would mean records once again. We are watching the fallout from that executive order on health care that the president just signed and we are seeing a mixed impact. You are some of the hospitals. Here are some of the hospitals. This executive order will create tremendous uncertainty and risk for managed Care Organizations in individual and small group markets, but at the same time, it is going to take a wild to write the rules to comply with this order, and it really is a small portion of the Overall Health care market. That said, we are watching hospitals and the < ....
Happens. We are going to see what happens with north korea. We are prepared for numerous things. If something can happen where we negotiate, i will always go for that. That if it is something that is going to be other than negotiations, believe me, we are ready, more than we have ever been. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. President trump outside the white house a few moments ago. He is taking a helicopter the secret Service Training facility, speaking to trainees this afternoon. He was talking a lot about the speeches he just gave in the white house at about the iran deal. Was enumerating their essentially, kicking this over to congress. They will be dealing with sanctions. The Treasury Department issuing some new sanctions today as well. Imposing sanctions within 60 days, now the ball is back to congress. Robbers can decide what to do with that, but as far ....