china out prices in in half an hour. 4898, it tells you what has been going on since 2006. the white line indicates first-tier city performance. we have had this massive run-up in june 2015. ever since, we have seen this fall back. it has been muted for second-tier and third tear cities. we have early data from china real estate showing a sharp rebound in tier one cities and tier three cities. is the result of strict controls during the october party congress unwinding, so the possibility of a turnaround. all will be revealed after xi jinping said houses are for living in, not for speculation. the lastding day of week in this part of the world, singapore, taiwan, and malaysia kicking things off. sophie: the countdown to christmas, risk on for markets with the u.s. tax bill passage looking likely. we have the malaysian ringgit and the won leading declines against the dollar, and the yen looking to test 113. we have u.s. key economic data deck this week. shares mostly climbing.
good morning, everybody. welcome. you re watching the pulse live from bloomberg s european headquarters. we re here in london. i m guy johnson. let s get straight to our top stories. protests in hong kong. beijing bank authorities demanding that the chief executives of hong kong must now go. david, give us a sense of what s happening in hong kong right now. well, what we re seeing just today after the protesters once again blanketed the main roads into central hong kong, a lot of them have gone to work today so it seems some dispurgs of the crowd but we expect them to come back again. tomorrow and the day after, it is a public holiday here in hong kong and those were the days when occupy central, one of the main organizers of this movement wanted to have their sit-in. they brought it forward because the students really started protesting last friday, but what we really do expect to see tomorrow is tens of thousand s of people back on the streets here in hong kong. remembe
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