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Sri lanka has raised its key Interest Rate of the First Time Since july to bolster the rupee. That lending and deposit rates were increased by 25 basis points. Sri lanka is struggling to balance growth and record inflation amid the worst drought in 40 years. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Turning now to the markets. Afternoon trading getting underway and hong kong and china. The hang seng down. 1 . Shenzhen and shanghai both down slightly. Caroline im caroline hyde. This is Bloomberg Technology. Comin...

It was 2157 at the beginning of the week. It has gained 11 points this week. Anna lets get some more details. Nejra cehic joins us. Nejra good morning. Asian markets seem to have not got the memo of caution we saw in the u. S. Session. If we look at the msci asiapacific index, trading higher, the topix recovering the slide on a weaker yen. 111. 46. The house vote on the Republican Health care bill delayed today but this does have bigger implications not just on policy but on the trump trade as well. We could ask if the market is getting ahead of itself with the optimism today. The nikkei up 0....

He was a senior treasury official in the Bush Administration and Erik Schatzker asked him back in 2015 what he thought about policy. I am all for transparency and i think the fed has that right. What is wrong is it continued it continues to believe it should not follow the rule. If you are going to be transparent, you have to be moral rulebased and what you are doing. Us now is Erik Schatzker who conducted the interview and also Michael Mckee , economics reporter on the fed. York bureau chief who knows a lot about randalls background. Like he is happy to do. He job and is qualified eric you ge...

Underwriter. Go figure. First, we start off with the fed shocker. Stocks closing off the highs as the Federal Reserve basically said the june rate hike is firmly on the table. Look at the big winners today. Banks, health care, technology, the big losers, bonds, utilities and gold. With june now on the table, are we starting to see the beginning of the next great rotation . What should you do with your portfolio right now . You give up the winning trade for 2016 and cycle into the other one . Obviously pete can speak to the banks. But i thought the soft in the tlt, i understand it, but i think ...

Today has been chock full of news. But distilling everything out right now, were down for the nasdaq as well. Pulling more and more away from the record highs we saw. Look at that. 5204 right now. I want to show you what been happening in terms of sector helped of the s p 500. Especially when we have one day left before janet yellen speaks on rates at jackson hole, wyoming. Lets take a look at what is happening with saint jude shares right now. They have been falling for most of the day. They short saint jude shares because of a potential hacking risk. It is down about 5. 8 . It is falling neg...