Successful in the tech world. All that, plus a houseswallowing sinkhole in florida, triggers a new emergency. The star witness takes the stand at the top chef trial. And the countdown begins. The olympic winter games six months away. How is the usa shaping up . The athletes you need to watch, today, tuesday, august 8th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us. So nice to be together. Its like running into a High School Sweetheart years later. Its kind of wonderfully awkward. Yeah. Like you really let yourself go, havent you . No. Its great. Good to see you again. We havent been together for three weeks. We have a busy morning to start with. The Trump Administration weighing its options for north korea, after the regimes harsh response to the new u. N. Sanctions. They may be the toughest sanctions ever. But could they pla
Successful in the tech world. All that, plus a houseswallowing sinkhole in florida, triggers a new emergency. The star witness takes the stand at the top chef trial. And the countdown begins. The olympic winter games six months away. How is the usa shaping up . The athletes you need to watch, today, tuesday, august 8th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us. So nice to be together. Its like running into a High School Sweetheart years later. Its kind of wonderfully awkward. Yeah. Like you really let yourself go, havent you . No. Its great. Good to see you again. We havent been together for three weeks. We have a busy morning to start with. The Trump Administration weighing its options for north korea, after the regimes harsh response to the new u. N. Sanctions. They may be the toughest sanctions ever. But could they pla
They suspect links to international terrorism. It is 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates. Im yousef gamal eldin and by in dubai. Lets have a look at markets. More momentum as we made our way across em and to china where we are getting a decent bit of cross market. Especially when you look at the smaller markets. I talked about vietnam. Indonesian stocks topping another record high. Yousef in this part of the world, were just under two hours away from the emirates market. Dubai and abu dhabi at 10 00 a. M. Local time, there was some Downside Pressure from the lawyer oil price and hitting it hard. Down 1 to industrials and materials. Space beingfected consumer discretionary, down 1. 2 . Interesting what is happening over in kuwait. We are seeing a lot of buying from local investors in particular. We are watching where oil prices are trending. Rent has not recovered inventory reports showed a continuous builds in the u. S. Supplies. Pressure. This is the interesting one because there is still
Kongcurran is in hong wanting to know when the fed will raise Interest Rates. Matt miller is in berlin. Lets begin in greece. Finance ministers have reached an agreement that will allow aid to be released to ease the debt burden around the country. Marcus joins us live from athens. Aid disbursement means greece will not face a massive payment crunch to the ecb in the summer. Theres also some extra money that allows it to stopping down taxes are about to rise. Its not going to cause jubilation on the streets. They can expect a little bit of stability over the summer. Jonathan thank you. David are you wondering when the fed will next raise Interest Rates . Chinese officials will ask their u. S. Counterparts about the timing of the next increase. Curran in honga kong. When are they going to ask this question and where . Good morning. It shows how nervous chinas leadership is of the looming fed rate hike. Issuelan to raise this when diplomats meet as part of a strategic economic dialogue.
Quietly. Pfizer and ge firing back in opeds, defending their companies and criticizing campaign language. Jpmorgan chase jamie diamond also out with big concerns about where america is headed right now. Will that fall on deaf ears or impact real change on the way these companies and others are viewed . Here now billionaire investor will ross joining us. Youre an investor in companies, right . You got your own business. Youre not a public company, what do you make of the campaign trail attacks on business and individual corporations specifically . Well, i think there is a terrible populous sentiment that is brewing and it is manifesting itself being antibusiness. But think about it. If you like employment, how can you hate employers. If you like tax revenues, how can you make life more difficult for the major taxpayers. So there is an illogic to the populism. And i think what is happening is middle class america and slightly below middle class have been left behind for a decade. Theyre