announcement of the first interim dividends in the history of gazprom, and gas prices in europe on the hype ttfsoared by 5.5% compared to the previous close of trading. at 1,000 cubic meters it costs almost 3,000 dollars. the heat in europe puts out the light. one of the key electricity producers. norway warned that will reduce exports due to a record drought norwegian supplies. you could help the eu stand against the backdrop of your own problems. however, hydroelectric power plants cannot yet increase production, as the water level in the rivers has dropped significantly, a scandal is brewing . norway can be deprived of the status of a reliable supplier. well. electricity breaks new records in germany, they reached 650 euros per megawatt-hour, which is 10 times higher than last year in france, they reached 1,000. poultry meat cheaper wholesale prices, at the end of august dropped below the level of last year, kommersant writes about this with reference to the national union of poultry farmers, a kilogram of broiler carcasses costs 136 rubles in the central part of russia. they are 140, as las

the dutch ttf, 271, up another 4.4% they have an astonishing 3.1%. bitcoin suffered it's fractionally lower. it's not much for those crypto assets 21.3k. let's check in on equities outside of the u.s., shares in asia ending mostly lower been tracking the futures markets as well this morning seeing a slight improvement in the course of the morning. let's get to julianna who has the latest in asia and europe for us this morning. >> hey, wilf, great to see you european equity markets, things have turned around we started out in negative territory. over the last hour or so the positive momentum is growing we have patches of green on the board. the swiss market more defensive. outperforming. up about 1/3 of a percent. the italian market crossing into positive territory and the cac 40 investors taking advantage of these lower levels of what we've seen spanish markets in negative territory and underperformance ftse 100 under 400%. we're tracking what you're seeing state side. yesterday the dow beat on wall street and this morning u.s. futures are improving

european natural gas prices, ice dutch, ttf natural gas, has come down a little bit in the last few days today. fell yesterday all this as germany said it is running ahead of schedule filling up the natural gas storage. we are now expected to be at 85% full next month. that is ahead of the october target the weather has cooperated and they have been racing to buy u.s. lng in fact, buying it away from china. i don't know what they're paying, but they are getting natural gas. joining me is goldman sachs head of global research is jeff currie i want to be clear on something as i understand it if i'm wrong, please tell me the gas storage situation is good over 80% storage also implies a continued flow of gas in years past. they never relied, i don't think, on just storage storage plus a robust continued supply of other gas. there's no robust other continued supply of gas except for u.s. lng and some from norway and algeria this is good news. this doesn't mean the problem is over, does it? >> absolutely not. i think as you pointed out, inventory provides some of the relief, but not all of the

we can have a look at dutch ttf wholesale up $300 today. 15% or so. month to date up over 50%. year to date up well over 300% extraordinary moves for those gas prices wholesale gas prices extraordinary moves in asian trade. let's check in on that with julianna tatelbaum -- preview? live update for europe and asia. julianna >> wilf, good morning. it was extraordinary hong kong market temporarily closed and when it reopened, the hong kong market gained. hong kong tech rose 6% as for european markets, we are trading higher gains across the board german market up 0.7%. a couple of bright data points from germany this morning. q2 coming in better than expected for gdp confidence survey was better than expected for the month of august german network regulator saying they intend to fill the gas storage to 85% by october 1st. aiming and hoping for 95% by november 1st some positive developments there. equities trading higher. from the sector perspective. oil and gas up 1%. wilf, oil and majors are rallying with the price of oil autos and real estate and retail under under performing the

set for november 1st so this has taken some pressure off wholesale gas prices we are looking at dutch ttfr mega watt-hour it's down about four percentage points but the important thing is policymakers are very much on this case. the european commission president has announced that the eu would be looking to hold a summit on september 9th to discuss energy security and how to de-link electricity prices from the jump in gas a cold winter could still leave europe very much exposed to these higher gas prices. also just want to mention that today we've seen a much higher inflation trend out of the eurozone cpi came in at 9.1 percentage points today versus july of 8.9. that constitutes a 38% jump on energy costs year-over-year. european stocks have been trading on the down side down about four percentage points as we deal with this energy crisis in europe, joe >> let's bring in kristy goldfuss and vivek ramaswamy, founder and executive chairman at strive to mye, it looks like europe rushed the move to the transition to renewables or clean energy or whatever you want to call it because of pressu

that is, the same prices for and ttf are then immediately reflected in our contracts that we implementalking about doing this, as for this turbine. e, in which they say that we do not return it, who are not in montreal and in germany i just remind you that gazprom has a contract with the british subsidiary of the simons company in britain sanctions violation of sanctions is a criminal offense, so gazprom is asking for legal papers papers, and the answer is given to him by the ministerial word of honor or the siemens company's word of honor, or you don't believe us, and again we believe, moreover, they say, we spoke to the european commission. they are great britain i repeat we ask that they also provide the uk with these papers, but these papers are not available, respectively, there are no turbines. no, gas supplies, please. a few words about the increase in the regular strength of the armed forces by 137,000 people, in general, in peaceful, prosperous times. uh, the political leadership of the country is extremely reluctant to take such steps, even if the military says we need to for