Confirmed it would mark a serious escalation supporters of the former president evo morales have been rallying since monday he was forced to resign over disputed Election Results aljazeera correspondent or i suppose in the palace and was caught up herself in the unrest. As a little. Bit of a leafy on i was just thrown tear gas by the police on purpose this is whats happening in the middle of a plateau where people have been protesting peacefully a Police Officer just threw tear gas on my eyes says extremely difficult to speaks very very sorry theres been protesters. Those dozens of Police Officers here they just threw tear gas at it right in my ass as passed through and through tear gas in my eyes theres been people protesting here trying to make it to the president ial palace and theyre seeing ongoing clashes with those who are defending abel morales the people are very very angry told the police they see him supporting what they say is a coup against the government of the morales man
Particular pressure early in the session, but paring some of those losses, down by about 0. 3 right now. We had seen the pound gaining on the back of those polls i mentioned in the headline, but that seems to be shortlived. Now we see a fairly flat pound. 1. 2916 is where we trade on the u. K. Currency right now. Lets check out a bloomberg first word news update. Heres leighann gerrans. Ighann beijing told the u. S. Ambassador to quit meddling in hong kong affairs. The chinese also warned the bill could affect cooperation in important areas. The u. S. And china are in the midst of negotiating a trade deal. The white house is pushing to wrap up negotiations on a new trade deal with mexico and canada. The agreement known as usmca has become President Trumps top legislative priority. The administration and House Democrats have been locked in talks for months to secure a vote before the end of this year. Democrats want more enforcement of labor issues. Both mexico and canada say there has
There were glitches this morning with the launch of disney , but disney has come out and said there was so much demand that that is what caused the difficulties, so the market is rewarding disney for perhaps what is to come in terms of numbers as opposed to performance so far on disney . Tyson foods started in the premarket lower on a miss, but is upping its dividend to . 42, and it is up 5 . Guy lets take a look at what is happening here in europe. European markets getting a little bit more traction from an equity point of view, trading on very light volume, though. Telecom stocks one of the main drivers today. Vodafone getting some traction off betterthanexpected numbers. Eurodollar getting very close to the 1. 10 level. We are waiting and watching, trying to see what the president is going to say. No significant leaks thus far. Detailslso getting coming through from boeing. A big bounce yesterday on an announcement related to when it expects the 737 max to get back into service. Thi
It seems it was the outperformance of the small caps. Joe abigail, what are you watching . Abigail s p 500, possibility of new record highs ahead. The chart you have been watching for many, many weeks is starting to turn more bullish than it was last week erie of this years big rally out of the downtrend, and around may with trade concerns around the fed, this range everyone has been talking about making it bullish is the lows, each one is higher. Equidistant highs telling you the sellers are about as confident as they have been before. An rsit together with that appears to be ready to break out to the upside, it suggests that not only are we likely to stay above 3000, but we may have new record highs ahead, there are so many factors to take into account. Well, abigail, i wanted to dive into tech. Some of the big names are really underperforming. Things are only up 20 year to date, as you can see, relative to the others that are up 30 to 40 . Why is this . Miller said the group was und
Protesters in hong kong have clashed with police at the ands International Airport the escalating political crisis has no sign of slowing got rid thousands of demonstrators flooded the terminal. We report from hong kong. It was late in the evening when chaos broke out at hong kongs International Airportrt. They suspected him from being an undercover agent from china. That is when the scuffles broke out even the they said their mission was not to disperse the citizens threat hundreds of flights have been canceled at one of the worlds busiest airports. They continue to stand after Security Forces said they were facing violence. Anger at what protesters say is Police Brutality in dealing with them have fired up the demonstrations. Earlier in the day, hong kongs embattled leader carrie lam gave a press briefing of the economic damage closing the airports, but [inaudible] in sure that hong kong remains a safe and orderly and lawabiding city. That is my utmost responsibility because without