Foreign purchases. We have the first public impeachment hearing testimony revealing the president s lawyer was digging up dirt in his shadow diplomacy in ukraine. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up when it comes to the start of trading here in sydney. Investors dealt a pretty mixed hand overnight. Stocks closing pretty close to fresh record highs. Still, uncertainty over the lingering trade negotiations continuing to chip away at sentiment. We are hearing potentially the agricultural purchases that had been a solid part of the phase i deal could be in doubt. China reportedly saying if these tariffs are not resolved, they could back away from purchasing more u. S. Soy and pork. Taking a look at the picture, just about 1 10 of 1 . Watching the labor market numbers, typically quite volatile, could be a move in the aussie dollar. New zealand, upside about 1 10 of 1 after the reserve bank of new zealand held on rates for their last meeting of the year somewhat unexpectedly, causing
Parliament has requested an extension. Some people are being forced into sex work because the new Credit System leaves them without enough money to cover their most basic needs. Thats what mps have found and they are calling for urgent action. Many women become stuck in the cycle of needing to continue to sell sex to keep a roof over their heads, because the cost of living has become so high and benefits so frequently fail to cover it. Imagine being able to be in two, three or even four places at the same time. With your own realistic human avatar thats now possible, if but what will this mean for society and especially women . Sake im a ceo and a mother and an adviser and an investor. I have a lot of roles and i think that if i could send my avatar off to have fun and party on my behalf, that would be a great thing. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Josh hanson was stabbed to death four years ago by a man called shane obrien. Mr obrien immediately went
Was found. In the last minute or so, it has been driven away from here by police who say they want to take it toa police who say they want to take it to a secure location so that the bodies can be identified and in time removed, with respect and dignity. More from ben in a moment and well be talking to a former head of the uk border force. The other main stories on bbc news at 5pm. The Prime Minister goes to meet the labour leader to try to agree a timetable for a brexit deal after mps backed the plan, but rejected the three day limit on debate. They said that we couldnt open the withdrawal agreement, and we did. They said we couldnt get rid of the backstop, and we did. They said we couldnt get a new deal, mr speaker, and we did and donald trump has said he will lift the sanctions he imposed on turkey, following its military action against the syrian kurds. Its 5pm our main story is the discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry container in essex. The vehicle, which is thought to have crossed
Underneath we saw a radical devaluation of all sorts of stocks we were forced to reconsider how much well pay for a certain amount of stocks now and certain amount of growth now and how much we will pay in the future or do we sell . Most dramatic example. This morning an activist group Elliott Management took a 3. 2 billion stake in at t, gigantic, and sent a letter to the board of directors stock trading at just under 37 they think they can get it to 60 plus by the end of 2021 if the changes are made that will be huge. At t has been a real lager at t blames ill advised decisions by management, like overpaying for directv what would the failed acquisition of tmobile which ended up jump starting their competitor with a gigantic breakup. With some changes elliott argues at t can be worth a great deal more than its selling for they want the company to distract itself from side businesses cut the fat. Emphasize changes. Stop doing willynilly acquisitions at every turn put it altogether and
Flat that really does obscure a lot of drama up at least 2 s that has been pretty dramatic. Also why the nasdaq has been down so a lot of those profits are coming out of there. The hang seng up by 1 3 4 mentioning those tariffs that china will be taking off those goods. We have more on that front in a moment also an American Chamber of commercesaut u. S. Chamber services have been getting hurt and many of them are moving away more quickly than anticipated redirecting businesses there in the meantime, lets look at what has been happening. For the most part, green arrows. The ftse is up the dax up about. 75 . And cac is up. The trezy market and yields, they have firmed up. The 30year trading almost 2. 2 . 10year at 1. 714 . Twoyear note at 1. 67 breaking deal news, Hong Kong Exchange proposing a 36. 6 billion cash and stock offer for the London Stock Exchange saying it approached the lse with a bid last year, they agreed to buy refinative in a deal peloton says it plans to price shares b