Good morning everyone. Asian markets look set to continue declines today as futures on Japan’s Nikkei Average slip 174 points in Osaka while contracts on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index dropped over 0.7% in its most recent trading. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index meanwhile fell 1.3%.
Here’s what else you need to know:
Yanis Varoufakis hacked into the Greek finance ministry. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis recently admitted to having a five-man team hack his former offices systems in order to create a “contingency plan to create euro liquidity if the European Central Bank cut off emergency funding to the Greek financial system,” highlighting once again just how desperate Greece was pre-Greferendum. The Telegraph
Anshu Jain cleared of lying to the Bundesbank. Allegations that the former Deutsche Bank co-CEO lied to the Bundesbank regarding what he knew about his bank’s role in the Libor scandal have apparently been dropped by German regulator BaFin. They are however, continuing to probe other allegations connected to Jain. Financial Times (paywall)
People are taking Chinese ratings agencies with a pinch of salt. With Evergrande Real Estate’s bonds rated AAA in the mainland despite getting stamped as junk overseas, domestic Chinese ratings agencies are beginning to raise eyebrows. WSJ (paywall)
Hillary Clinton says she never sent or received classified documents from her home computer. An inspector general report said it had found four such emails, each marked “secret.” Reuters
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