At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exercise. There will be some cost benefits. Its really about having one overriding business to have one Investment Bank globally, one equities business. A Global Trading solution business, which build on our success. It serves our equity, fixed income, transactional business for the private bank and institutional business. How difficult was it to do this in the middle of the pandemic . Thomas it was relatively good. You get used to resume calls. Zoom calls. We had many internal calls to get this lin
The u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei the u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei from its 5g network. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the Unemployment Rate for the month of june coming in at 4. 3 . Now, this is lower than the estimate of 4. 5 . The Unemployment Rate falling from the previous month. We have seen a little bit of strength in the south korean economy with more positivity coming from that ramp up in government job creation efforts. Still, we have those negative effects from the pandemic with the hardhit hospitality and Retail Sectors continuing to reel. South korea losing jobs. Those removed in june from a year earlier. Still, the Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 3 . Lets get a quick check on how markets are trading at the moment. U. S. Futures rallying. We have after the market closed more positive news when it comes to the vaccine front from motor and a. In the regular session, we saw u. S. Stocks posting their biggest gains in more than a week. 7 . Thi
The Senate Committee on finance the subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange but an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair treatment practices of foreign governments and especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because of its growing of facts on this list in the United States as well as culture. Last fall for example the National Basketball association had its Market Access lock in china because individual american citizens used to media platform not allowed in china to express a political opinion. Now the topic is become much more important to the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contri
And were going underground on the one Year Anniversary of Boris Johnsons 1st full day as Prime Minister a premiership so far defined by the alienation of potential Global Trading partners accusations of dropping the ball on perceived foreign threats and having one of the worst for capital coronavirus death rates in the world coming up on the show as some labor politicians in the u. K. Call for the closure of this t. V. Channel we investigate the stories not covered by Mainstream Media around the world from china to syria to yemen with the gray zone to mix blue and gold and is russia controlling peers in the house of lords as intelligence and Security Committee appears to allege we asked conservative piano about formally of the Lords International Relations Committee how many of. Sits on the red benches the small coming up in todays going underground the 1st u. K. By mr Morris Johnson claimed that this weeks you gain teligent in Security Committees so called russia report showed allegat