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follow me on twitter. don t forget to use the hashtag as well. hong kong underway in 30 minutes. singapore and malaysia are online. shery: stocks are rebounding from yesterday s losses. we are seeing positive sentiment from wall street as a result. u.s. stocks are gaining on a bit more positive. we are seeing the asx 200 gaining 3/10 of 1%. we have australian trade deficit numbers this morning narrowing more than expected, coming in at $2 billion instead of the expected 2.3 billion aussie dollars. also, the july trade deficit revised lower. down 6/10 ofalls, 1%. leading the gains in asia, the nikkei up a tense of 1%, being held by a weaker yen. the cost yield up for tenths of 1%. take a look at the japanese yen. although it is not doing much, this comes after weakening for seven consecutive sessions. right now, holding at 103.47. also, analysts say we are going to see more u.s. dollar strength, so we could see a japanese yen wakening, especially before the december fao ....
blooming philippine market running out of steam. me on twitter. markets in hong kong getting under way at the bottom of the hour. malaysia just coming online. a is about the pound, recovery, the biggest plunge since the brexit. the pound just plunging, as much as 1% one point. the big question, what happened? because of sensitive worries about a possible hard brexit. first we heard from mitsubishi, this drop could be treated as a wrong order. of course, we saw a plunge, and it is retracing those losses. now we are hearing from dealers that it was a failure of the algorithm, that things got worse because liquidity disappeared and we saw those deals not being able to load the bids on their platforms. and in the over-the-counter market being triggered, 1.23. , a cap tradersy theept traders japanese yen against the dollar was not even moving. that is not the case anymore because it is strengthening .25% for the first time in nine days, reversing eight days of a recess and ....
i m anna edwards. manus: and i m manus cranny. algorithms abound in the market, smashed down 6% at its worst point today, but that is nothing. on the brexit day, we dropped by over 8%. we dropped by 6% and saw it come back to a decline of 1%, standard deviation. there they are. this is one standard deviation, two standard deviations. has dropped by approximately one and a half standard deviations. goldman sachs says there has been a big psychological break. that break of 120 changes the dynamic. on one platform, it traded down to 113.78. hollandether francois had something to do with it during a very low volume period of trading, that is something to consider. let s start the risk radar around the pound and show you how we are recovering. the pound was selling against a number of currencies, not just the dollar. we have recovered a bit, that we are still down 1.5% against the u.s. dollar into down by 1% against the euro. we have seen is essential move, or the great brit ....
tendency to overreact. we will hear why, later this hour. scarlet: we finished relatively flat on the day, but the dow did climb 119 points at one point. little change after it came back down. however, when you look at how things have fared for the week, we are on pace for the first weekly decline in a month. joe: a disappointing week across the board, especially for equity investors. in the ongoing backup in rates that we are seeing preventing the stocks from going higher. matt: and a mixed trade as far as the indexes. we do not see that as far as the groups go. health care and financials putting up little gains, but materials and industrials, energy, all down. take a look right here. i promise you there we go. sellingy like they are defenses, selling everything. gas up 15%. remember yesterday we reported those numbers, the chain doing better than what they were looking for. and monthly storage cells sales better than what they are looking for. concern about a clas ....