Stream later this year not novak says its trials show its job to be nearly 90 percent of fact against it 19. Plus china says it will no longer recognize a special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u. K. Of political interference. To begin this hour with breaking news from the netherlands where the court of appeals has ordered the Oil Giant Shell to pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they accuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills its the 1st time a Dutch Company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary lets go straight to step fasten shes standing by for us in. Step with a ruling then gone against shell what are the courts say. Exactly same here as a clear victory according to a friends of the earth or nablus who actually filed this case to get away for a nigerian farmers against shout the court said that the Daughter Company of shell s. P. C. In nigeria is liable for the pollution that
Via the coronavirus, and there is not much of the fed chair can say. Coronavirus is making all the decisions on the economy. Weakersales coming in than expected, actually the weakest since april. The High Frequency we have seen since then suggest the economy is slowing even further into november. The problem of course is there is no help from the fiscal side in washington, no talks about any additional covert relief package. Getting to the end of the year, most of the cares act expires. So people are looking to the fed, particularly people in the markets. They are looking at the yield curve, which has steepened slightly, still under 1 on the 10year, but there is a feeling that if the fed wanted to do something they could start buying at the longer and, changing the weighted average maturity of their purchases. If they did that, push down on Interest Rates. There is a feeling they may do that in december to send a message that we cannot do a whole lot to stimulate the economy but we are
Debts are about 700,000. The Trump Administration dabs up its attack on chinese tech. Mike pompeo wants to cut ties well beyond just a campaign against tiktok. Alert on start with an the bloomberg. South korea announcing its surplus widening to 6. 88 billion. This is a recovery from the 2 billion level we saw in the previous month and recovery after logging a deficit in april. When it comes to the trade surplus, widening to 5. 867 billion. We have seen south korean exports slump, slowing in july. We are seeing an economic recovery in china and demand for semiconductors. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a check of the markets. What should we be watching out for in south korea today . Sophie we have more data coming out. Tourism revenue falling for a fifth consecutive month so the focus will be on the consumer sector. Of o have the likes reporting earnings. Consumer sentiment has rebounded for a third month in south korea and online spending will continue to be key as the
A heaping of starbucks and shake shack after the closing bell despite a host of developing threats out there, no disability a quarter of companies that have reported so far have yanked guidance China Threatens retaliation for its role in the pandemic, and the virus death toll, new reports we could see 3,000 deaths a day in the United States as states begin to reopen. Is the action we saw today actually a sign that the market may be climbing a wall of worry . Hi, mel. Hi, guy its clearly climbing something. Tims been on this theme, so kudos toll him i was impressed, the price today was, you know, very interesting. So kudos to the market and people that still believe in it. Out of the three things you mentioned and loss of life obviously is the most concerning, but in terms of the market, you know, this potential retaliation against the chinese, that Steve Mnuchin spoke about today, and saying the chinese were still going to honor their trade agreement, i personally dont think the market