Shooting down of a malaysian airliner trial begins in a dutch Court Without the 4 men accused of murder. By joining us youre still with the sports tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams is called off as all the nicest cancel indian wells overthrowing a virus. So that we begin with the breaking news coming out of sudans capital where an explosion has hit a convoy carrying the Prime Minister abdullah was traveling through khartoum when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others the Prime Ministers office says it was an assassination attempt and lets cross straightaway to khartoum where we find here but more going to him but what more do we know. Well what we do know at the moment nic is that it was a car bomb explosion that was targeting the convoy of the Prime Minister according to his Office Members weve spoken to the office of the Prime Minister and they say that he is not injured and that they are all safe as well as the peopl
As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. 1650 dollars near a troy ounce. Haidi taking a look at a deeper dive, david is in hong kong. What you watching
South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei
We have a huge lineup this morning. Steven mnuchin will join us. That is at 7 45 a. M. Eastern at 8 00, well get reaction from political strategist hes been out all over the place what is there to talk about . A few things what did we say . President trump is ripping apple . Ive said all along, apple has to get on board. Switching sides no. Im not. It is not apples responsibility to keep us safe the issue is how much theyve been cooperating it does sound like the company has been pretty responsive they dont want to create an encryption key to allow any government to get any phone. They should cooperate in cases like this. I hope they are cooperating behind the scenes. I do want to see them cooperate on some of these but i can under the broader issue. The journals point is that in the meantime, apple shouldnt be seen as a public enemy no. So barr wants cooperation. Right but not just on this issue. He wants to create a larger issue. He wants to establish and create law for life that wou
Impeachment trial. So what does this mean for the president . And the support within his own party . All that plus, stunning death, rising 34yearold star at espn who died of pneumonia after covering the ohio state michigan game ready, set, return the postholiday rush to exchange those Unwanted Gifts starts this morning. What you need to know before heading to the stores or the post office. And christmas surprise fans happy to see alex trebek making a public appearance amidst his ongoing battle with cancer today, thursday, december 26th, 2019. 2019 with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this thursday morning thank you for joining us Kristen Welker in for savannah how was your Christmas Christmas was fantastic spent some time with my parents and my husband how about you . My kids are at an age now that i can see christmas through their eyes it was magical special morning. I bet it was. Speaking of christmas, lets start there.