Classes. Pricee the new york crude under pressure. We have this key meeting taking place of opec plus today and tomorrow. The gold price at the moment is showing weakness. Buy yourself finance. Bitcoin is erasing some of the 9 . Es by going up nearly lets look at the other first word news headlines. Lets join karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned readingna the latest on chinas economy shows recovery is getting momentum. Manufacturing and services, pmi data both beat estimations. In aty performance came 52. 1. The economy is gaining strength despite sporadic epics of covid19. Bloomberg has learned chinese regulatory officials have said that the chances of jack mas stockoup revising its are looking slim. They are still reviewing changes needed to appease regulators. An additional delay would be a setback for ma. Has big dollars the fight to overturn his election will not reach the supreme court. He told fox it is hard to send a case there and he probably wont succeed. He rehashed
Important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . The National Defense authorization act, the ndaa, essentially its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill as one of the must need bill. This is essentially how muchby pay the military, haow many plane, how many ships were going to by. It includes policies regarding troop movements in some cases, overseas exercises, things like that. Its pretty much the bill that sets the military, in some cases, the next five years of military plan. Its seen in the pentagon as something they need to get done every year. Its seen in the Defense Community as a point of pride that they get it done every year. Its largely backed by the congressional leadership. This year, it might be a little tricky, well see what happens but theres a lot of confidence, at the end of the day, members of Congress Come together and actually make sure it gets through. So there are two different versions. The house and senate ve
All around washington but nonetheless reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking, experience and approach. In thinking about these kinds of conflicts with a lot of broad strategic expertise and also a lot of Field Research and handsonexpertise. This struggle is at the new American Engagement Initiative at the Selikoff Center at the Atlantic Council. He has a longstanding scholar, many will know him from his years at the Cato Institute and his most recent book is hes, war and liberty. He is also a former navy officer and is in many ways one of the great skeptics and contrary invoices in American Foreign policy and strategy thinking today who has prolonged time and were pleased to have them with us se in this event read chuck and logan Catholic University is at that center for study and statesmanship, used to be cato as well and is recently written an important article in defense priorities call the case for withdrawing from the middle east and is an advocate of minimizing us m
Is the security of america at risk . And covid continues to peek across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . Dropping asstocks fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news. About vaccine develop at Abigail Doolittle has more. Generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail truly a sleeper for much of the day. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. As new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 seven day rolling Positivity Rate here in new york city, at least according to the mayors office. Looks like the governor may have ha
Administration is preparing a Sweeping Campaign to encourage americans to take the covid19 vaccine when its available to them and as vaccine supply increases. And it all cant come soon enough. The centers for Disease Control and prevention report more than 600 cases of the more contagious covid19 variants from the united kingdom, brazil and south africa across 33 states. According to the latest forecast models, an estimated 631,000 americans would have died from covid19 by june 1st. The mounting of a real federal response to the covid pandemic for the first time comes alongside the Historic Second Impeachment Trial of the former president who failed and refused to lead that fight. The second Impeachment Trial of the accused insurrectionist donald j. Trump begins on tuesday. It does not appear that there would be enough Senate Republicans to join in convincing the former failed president of his role in inciting the mob that attacked the capitol one month ago on january 6th and thats not