The imposition of additional sanctions against any individual owning, operating, trading with, or assisting sectors of the iranian economy, including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining. And let me be clear, these will be both primary and secondary sanctions. The eo also allows us to designate other sectors in the future as secretary pompeo and me think is appropriate. Second, we are announcing 17 specific sanctions against irans largest steel and iron manufacturers, three seychelles entities and a vessel involved in the transfer of products. As a result of these actions we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime and will continue our enforcement of other entities. Third, were taking action against a Senior Iranian official who advanced the regimes destabilizing activity and were involved in tuesdays Ballistic Missile strike. Secretary pompeo will comment more on this. Todays sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the Iranian Regimes global
Fbn a. M. Starts right now. Cheryl the song is block hawk. Were going to have black hawk. Well have that coffee, donut debate later on in the show. Good morning, im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning, im lauren simonetti. Cheryl you may have been surprised if you saw markets react to the yo attacks in iraq against u. S. Soldiers. 24 hours ago we were talking about a Global Market selloff. Futures are now higher by 89, s p is up 11 and a quarter, nasdaq up 43 andahalf. The nasdaq closed at a new record last night. Lauren lets take a look at commodities, oil prices are up today by 16cents, below 60 a barrel, after rock he et a rockn baghdads green zone. Gold continues its sell off. Cheryl taking a look at stocks in asia, stocks finishing broadly higher with japan leading the way. The nikkei gaining more than 2 and a quarter percent. Hang seng and kospi, strong numbers in asia. Lauren investors reading all this as a deescalation of conflict in the middle east and iran. The dax is gaining
Mortars. Iran is claiming tens of mill isles have been launched. Well go to Mark Meredith in washington, d. C. Who versus further information. Reporter we are trying to find out exactly where the attacks have been taking place. Where the bases are in iraq and what the damage will be. President trump has been briefed on whats been going on. The white house put out a statement 15er 20 minutes ago saying the white house is aware of attacks on u. S. Facilities in iraq. The president is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his National Security team. We have not heard exactly how the u. S. Will decide to respond to an attack. The americans that are based at these different facilities all across iraq, and what the damage will look like. We have seen the images starting to pop up on social media from groups trying to show these were the missile launches and rocket attacks. Attacks. We have heard from some lawmakers including chris murphy saying hes praying for all the troops s
Mortars. Iran is claiming tens of mill isles have been launched. Well go to Mark Meredith in washington, d. C. Who versus further information. Reporter we are trying to find out exactly where the attacks have been taking place. Where the bases are in iraq and what the damage will be. President trump has been briefed on whats been going on. The white house put out a statement 15er 20 minutes ago saying the white house is aware of attacks on u. S. Facilities in iraq. The president is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his National Security team. We have not heard exactly how the u. S. Will decide to respond to an attack. The americans that are based at these different facilities all across iraq, and what the damage will look like. We have seen the images starting to pop up on social media from groups trying to show these were the missile launches and rocket attacks. Attacks. We have heard from some lawmakers including chris murphy saying hes praying for all the troops s
Mortars. Iran is claiming tens of mill isles have been launched. Well go to Mark Meredith in washington, d. C. Who versus further information. Reporter we are trying to find out exactly where the attacks have been taking place. Where the bases are in iraq and what the damage will be. President trump has been briefed on whats been going on. The white house put out a statement 15er 20 minutes ago saying the white house is aware of attacks on u. S. Facilities in iraq. The president is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his National Security team. We have not heard exactly how the u. S. Will decide to respond to an attack. The americans that are based at these different facilities all across iraq, and what the damage will look like. We have seen the images starting to pop up on social media from groups trying to show these were the missile launches and rocket attacks. Attacks. We have heard from some lawmakers including chris murphy saying hes praying for all the troops s