The russell 2000 continuing its outperformance, it had been lagging, it had a big start postelection and came down. Or the past few sessions, it has been doing better than the majors in terms of the percentage gains. The dow slightly in the green, very slightly. The s p and nasdaq trading a little bit lower. We have been watching oil prices. Inventories data this morning, that showed that a larger than estimated built in crude Oil Inventory at a big drawdown and gasoline and distal inventory in the wake of Hurricane Irma and the recovery from hurricane harvey. That was a bit of a surprise. Oil went up. Still hanging onto a gain of 1. 7 and holding about 49 per barrel. That means strength in the oil industry. And oil stocks with energy the best performing group in the s p 500 and some of the gains we are watching, apache, conoco phillips, in terms of the exploration and production companies. Outside of the world as stocks, watching bitcoin. Jamie dimon got attention yesterday for a tras
Allen. This is daybreak australia, two hours away from the open. Betty off to another week. Just past 6 00 in new york. We will look at how all the action on wall street will play into the asiapacific trading day. Despite these jitters over north korea, im sure that will be a big topic as the yuan general gathers. Mbly i want to show you how we ended stocks on friday before the weekend. The s p inching higher, up 2 10 of 1 , the dow climbing 65 points as well as the nasdaq about 20 points, 3 10 of 1 . There is a lot happening this week on the policy front and centralbank policy front with the announcement we are expecting about detailing, reducing the Balance Sheet and the boj, as well. Paul plenty happening on the central ink front. Front waiting on china prices. On the markets, you are right. Business as usual with the s p up 2. 5 thousand points. The first market up and running, up 1 5 of 1 . The new Zealand Dollar weaker against the greenback, the election looming in new zealand. E
Start a nuclear articles race in the middle east, we, we are really in trouble. Arms. Separated that out and negotiated a reasonable way of monitoring and stopping progress towards a nuclear weapon. But for most republicans, and for people who support them, the idea is why separate it out . Because iran is busy fomenting and it is true, all manner of violent anti american, anti israeli mischief, in the middle east, from hezbollah and its support of the assad regime. Now they have com plete of the assad regime. Now they have complete control they are questioning it. The thing is, once you get a deal like the nuclear deal, you, you know, it, you dont walk away from it. Especially because it involves your principle partners in managing the world. Because it involves your principle partners in managing the worldli think president macron actually rang the iranian president and said look, donald trump doesnt speak for us. No, he doesnt, but he is still the american president. And, but imagin
England and wales, quite a cloudy start for many but things brightening up, especially in central and eastern areas, where we get the best of the sunshine. Temperatures could possibly get as high as 22 23 degrees. But for the start of the new week, we are looking at this. Hurricane ophelia, currently in the atlantic, it wont be a hurricane as it reaches our shores but could still bring some very windy weather indeed, particularly in the west. Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im shaun ley. President donald trump denounces iran, but leaves it to congress to decide the future of the nuclear deal. Theresa may tells the eus brexit negotiators the balls in your court only to see it bounce back again. And will the Spanish Government or the catalans blink first . To discuss those three examples of what you might call buck passing, celia matha de pablo of la razon newspaper in spain, Agnes Poirier of the french magazine marianne, the columnist Yasmin Alibhai brown and broadcaster michael
Hes to have been at the wheel of the pickup truck that drove into pedestrians killing eight well get the latest from the u. S. Also coming up in Germany Police detained a nineteen year old syrian suspected of gathering parts for a powerful bomb the interior minister says he was planning a serious terrorist attack. The ousted president of catalonia is out of the country but for how much longer the Spanish Court summons call his push them all to testify as it decides whether to charge him and his allies with sedation. Plus a month after the National Election germany still has no new government the parties likely to form a coalition are meeting today to address the needs of germanys rural population they say theyre often neglected in a highly industrialized economy like germany. And in soccer. Munich good balance to the knockout phase of the Champions League after defeating celtic in glasgow. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us Police Sources have identified the man suspected o