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A hard exit. Have a look at where european equities are finishing this ride a session. 30 minutes left in the day today. Stocks are rising today. Heading for the first weekly drop since november. Look at these rises we are seeing for currencies across the region against the dollar. There is appetite for risk your riskier assets today. I want to show you the world index. That felt 1. 2 on wednesday, following 0. 3 yesterday. It is up three quarters of a percent today. It is marginally higher over the week. It is rising for the fifth consecutive week, the best run since march. It is up 9 this ye...

And alongside mark barton in london. We are discussing the horrific attack in manchester. Mark at least 22 people were killed in this suicide bombing at a pop concert filled with children. 59 others have been injured in the attack carried out by one man who died after, detonating an explosive device. The blast happened at 10 35 p. M. Police are treating it as a terrorist attack and eyewitness accounts described shrapnel wounds consistent with a nail bomb. It is the worst attack on british soil since the london bombings in 2005. This comes two months after a lone assailant left five people dead...

Is your function. We are down on the european benchmark today. Sterling 1. 2 lower today and the biggest drop since february. We will talk more about this with emma just the second. A big decline due to the narrowing of the polls in the upcoming elections. Starting with this chart, the correlation between the ftse and the pound. Your member since the referendum a weak pound and rising stocks on the ftse because most of them get their earnings from overseas. Interesting is that the correlation is now positive, but the index shows no signs of running out of steam. Five weeks of gains just below ...

If you happen to be watching from the u. S. It is a bank holiday in the u. K. , too. Chinese markets are closed as well. The stoxx 600, pretty flat there, bearing all that in mind. The dollaryen, pretty unchanged at 111. 31. We did see a little strength earlier after those comments from John Williams. Cable is up. 2 . That has been moving fairly strongly ahead of the u. K. Election and a sterling did have its worst week this year last week. And keep your eyes on the 10 year italian yield. It looks like it is down two basis points. It was moving higher earlier, after comments from the Prime Min...

Trading in london, in the u. S. , no trading in china. Lets start with stocks. 600 has a little bit of a change. The average volume which tells us what sort of trading conditions we are seeing. Below the time of this day that we normally see. Down oncurrencies are the day. A little bit of support earlier after comments from the fed hike. Williams said that hikes are to be expected. Lets move on to the currency board. Here is the dollar rising against the ran today. That the south african president is staying put. Muted reaction for the ran suggesting that investors still find the yield temptin...