Good morning belarus, good morning, beloved country, ekaterina antonova, tatyana matuseevich, today we will spend the morning of the 2nd day of may with you, traditionally our couple meets thursday with you. By the way, if you, dear friends, are waiting for summer, just like we are waiting for it, then we inform you that there are exactly 29 days left until the hot, berrywatermelon, vegetable, greensalad season, we. Have counted everything, yes, were starting the countdown, but in the meantime were immediately enjoying the beautiful spring, this warm may, i would even say, the last month of spring, its just some sort of weekend and holiday, but really, we started celebrating yesterday, yesterday it was labor day for us, yes, and today we are already entering working day, by the way, the sun has already risen at 5 28 and is working at full strength, across the republic this morning up to 10, and in some places even up to 12, during the day up to. Six with a plus sign, but more detailed
Markets close in about two hours. Lets check on where things stand. It is the end of the month, final trading day of the quarter. To dow is up 190 points finish friday close to where we began september. It is the same for the s p 500. That brings us right around to the beginning of the month. Day,asdaq having a nice. 9 higher. There is speculation of deals. To go through some of the individual sectors, the banking index and major banks is what we have been concentrating on most of the day. Deutsche bank has rallied up 15 . At one point, we saw a down 9 in german trading. This is on speculation the department of justice may fine Deutsche Bank like . 4 billion. Citigroup rallying and bank of america. Next is notbanks include Deutsche Bank but there is a followon effect. Lets move on to other movers making highs today. Amazon. Com up 1 . Qualcomm up 1. 9 . Check on the bloomberg first word news. David mark . Mark Hillary Clinton wants to enlist 5 million millennials in the National Servic
Kongshanghai connect. From the just pictures trading room floor. That is what we have at the moment. We seemingly are finally there. It is just half an hour away. Market swinging open to Foreign Investors in a limited way. It is the Hong Kongshanghai connect. We have dave watching the action from the Credit Suisse trading floor. What is the mood like there . Good morning. As you can hear from the guys behind me, the decibel level is getting louder. We are entering 30 minutes before the open. That being said, a lot of focus today will be on the backend. A lot of investment and a lot of time, not only from the exchange, from brokerages, all throughout the industry, they have gone into making sure this open will be very smooth. I just want to mention as well, when we talk about these daily quotas, a lot of chat has surrounded that, is it big enough, i want to focus more on the overall. Billion. Oking at 3. 8 just to give you a statistic here, if we use up the daily quota for the next 23 d
Over to tokyo. Sherry and is live. How bad the numbers were . Rish, it was quite surprising to see that revised gdp data out of japan today. The gdp shrinking an annualized 1. 9 and the third quarter. More than the initial breeding off contraction of 1. 6 first it. It was quite unexpected. Gave a the 24 economists figure that low. We had expected gdp data to be revised upwards. This figure showing the japanese economy is in a much deeper recession than originally thought. That will be a below to Prime Minister shinzo abe in the election season where we have less than a week to go to vote on sunday. Chari, lets discuss as he goes to the polls, he has a whole host of issues. Can you walk us through some of the key ones . Rish, a lot of Unfinished Business for the japanese Prime Minister. Three key issues. Lets get started with inflation, prices. Inflationary policies and not quite there. Rising only 0. 9 in october. When you strip the april sales tax hike. To carryay be forced out even m
Marble in that square. They stop to doing that for a long time. They are cleaning up the square. The statues are being cleaned as well. That seems to me to be a sign that someone thinks there is going to be and assigns of the nature of the economic recovery we are seeing in agrees. And there are others i will bring to you later. Looks interesting developments. Caroline is watching m a news. Bethe British Company getting a company. Climbing on the news. It has been reported in the british press. Based in scotland, and Engineering Company is eyeing a merger. 6. 5 billion pounds merger. It provides services to the mining and oil and gas communities and trading higher on the back. P 18 caroline, thank you. We are watching for japan. The index showing a corporate sentiment. Gains could be shortlived as the higher sales tax kicks in today. That sales tax goes from five percent to 8 . Will autonomic stand up . Will abenomics stand up . Will boj standup . About theoing to be debate of stimulus