Susan Hayes Culleton

Good morning, Ross.

I'm great altogether.

Thanks so much indeed for joining me.

So first up, Ross, the euro is now worth 184.33 yen.

I checked it just before we went in and I can see here that it now means the yen is trading at an all-time low after the Bank of Japan raised rates.

What's driving that?

So a big short of sorts.

Well, speaking of volatility, now that you've mentioned it, we have a breaking story in the FT this morning about Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency platform.

What's going on there?

I read through that piece that's an exclusive from the Financial Times, Ross, and some of the transactions, the repeated nature of them.

They really would.

How one could even think up of these things?

But you also mentioned Venezuela and that too was in the headlines this morning because the US is growing its largest military build-up in the Caribbean Sea since the 1962 missile crisis and sought to board a third oil tanker yesterday outside Venezuela.

What's behind this?

Because this one could be one to really, really watch.

Not in 2026, in the hours ahead.

So do you think that this is a democracy story?

Is this an oil price story?

Is there a further geopolitical element to this, all of the above, and some that we don't know about as well?

Well, we'll finish this morning by bringing it closer to your own home, and that is the Sixes Social Cricket Bars, backed by England captain Ben Stokes, has gone into administration.