Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the markets quickly. We are higher in the premarket 16 points or so on the dow about 10 or 11 points on the nasdaq s p up 2 yesterday we did see the s p and nasdaq up about 0. 1 the dow led the charge it was up about 0. 3 in terms of trade in europe, broadly mixed. Asia is first. Sorry. Strong seconds ssion in asia. No real data or catalyst, but we are nicely higher. 1. 9 for hong kong european trade not as impressive its a mixed session its improved, as you can see in the last 20 minutes or so. The dax ended higher yesterday despite Angela Merkel saying she prefers fresh elections to governing as a minority leader, which feels like a gamble. The tax is higher today. The markets in general shrugging off the german Political Developments of the past couple of days. Back to the top story. The u. S. Justice department filing a lawsuit challenging at ts proposed acquisition of time warner. Leslie picker has the detai
Beyond a reasonable doubt and le jury sent a note to judge t. S. Ellis acting in asking him to redefine reasonable doubt. The judge brought them into the courtroom and told them that the government is not required to prove the defendant guilty beyond all possible doubt but beyond all reasonable doubt. A few minutes after that, the metaphor defense team came out here and said they think its a favorable sign for their side. We just got some good news. The jury has been deliberating. They had some questions which the judge addressed and they have have asked to come back tomorrow to continue. Do you think its a good sign that they are asking about reasonable doubt . I think it is all a good sign. The jury deliberated for more than seven hours today and at the end, they asked some questions about keywords the mueller team used over and over again concerning Shelf Companies and Foreign Bank Account reports. The judge didnt really answer and told them to rely on their memory of that testimony
is. the fcc chairman appeared before the senate committee. ajit pye says the station was taken down because he was violating the law, not the nature of the speech. it s important to make clear that our pirate radio enforcement efforts have nothing to do with the content the radio stations air. saying that this type of enforcement normally doesn t get this much attention. normally it doesn t make national news but it has because the radio station in question was airing alex jones show. jones also getting squeezed by apple, removing his podcast. there is also an issue with twitter. after he hosted this video calling for people to get their battle rifles ready against the media. chief executive jack dorsey says he s hoping to modify jones tone by putting him in a twitter timeout.