Medium term. We will speak to ceotidjan Ceotidjane Thiam late their morning. And viva aviva says it will deploy 3 billion pounds in excess cash. Good morning its thursday, not just any thursday, it is opec thursday. Its only a matter of minutes until steve is let into the socalled opec scrum the ministers in the room are widely expected to strike a deal to extend crude production cuts by as much as 9 months you can see steve in the background hes ready to go well bring that live to you wlechb when it does begin Traders Await a decision from opec and nonopec nations bp is off by 0. 63 shell off by a half percent. Statoil a touch lower. Really were just in a wait and see mode lets tell you whats happening with the rest of european markets. Were modestly higher today. We saw another record high for the dow. The nasdaq fell, given the selloff in the f. A. N. G. Stocks specifically, the tech stocks overall, seeing their biggest oneday drop in five months. The nasdaq posting the biggest oned
Airbus of the a3 80 questions the future of the jumbo pending helps of survival on the emirates. I am yousef gamal eldin. The u. S. Bond market coming back online. To asian equity session off a strong start, although a mixed action or. On thebal market bloomberg, the hang seng up 1. 3 , some weakness with the aussie stocks. A bhp ratingsnd cut weighing heavily. Broader session dominated by Consumer Staples and Technology Sectors offsetting a decline in materials. Fluctuating, the dollaryen one of the major moves in the key currency pairs. , down. 4 . E speak relative stability in the u. S. Dollar for the moment. ,t is hitting the base metals aluminum down 2. 2 . Also sink down. 8 . And i will the board show you what is happening with brent crude. Currently down. Wti stronger, a diverging richer on that front. The u. S. Tenure currently unchanged. We have the eurodollar story. We will get into that shortly. S p 500 futures higher. We do have citigroup expected to post fourthquarter resu
Principals and superintendents to say that you have kids in the region qualifying yet only 40 kids are taking it. N you look at your taxes when i had to subsidize my classrooms, it made me very angry. Andy, what is your take on these results . Well, Big Questions about what the future of state and federal policy are going to look like. It looks like the nation is rebelling 35, maybe 40 years of the drift of policy on this. What i mean is there is a sense that americas local system of schools werent getting the job done in the way we need them to. Say, the late 1970s, early 1980s, scores on the sats and so forth. There has been this impulse to centralize more and more. We have the accountability movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The apotheosis of accountability. Top,we had race to the where we get more and more power in the State Government and at the federal government. Going through these results, it is remarkable i use the term technocrat, the idea that a central administrator with T
About the selloff in treasuries. One of the underperformers in germany 50 basis points. We made it. David we will get a range of u. S. Economic data at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time, including core pce and Second Quarter gdp. The Kansas City Fed president at 9 45 this morning. Will speake chairman 15 minutes later at a conference in london. At 1 00 this afternoon, the u. S. Treasury will sell off 28 billion in 10 year notes. Emma President Donald Trump kicked up his campaign to cut tax rates for corporations and individuals, casting the proposal as an economic jolt for hiring across the country. The Corporate Tax rate at 20 . Framework, we will dramatically cut the business tax rates of that American Companies and American Workers can beat our foreign competitors and start winning again. Businesses would be allowed to immediately break up their Capital Spending for five years. European unions chief brexit negotiator says the pie minister speech in florence is causing a new dynamic in our neg
Injured several others. Senator graham was chairing a meeting of the crime and terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on extremist content and russian disinformation online. Representatives from twitter, facebook, and google appeared as part of the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the last president ial election. The hearing lasted about three hours. And we are going to show you some of that now. Starting with Opening Statements from earlier today. Thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle. Ill make an opening statement, senator whitehouse, i think senator feinstein would like to make one, and if senator grassley come, he will certainly be allowed to do this. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. So were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would