Chinese relations. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us here in germany the number of corona virus infections has seen a sharp rise in recent days the countrys leading Public Health institute is warning that people are letting down their guard and not observing social distancing measures well despite these developments in central berlin today thousands of people were out on the streets protesting against coronavirus Restrictions Police were forced to break up the event after many participants ignored hygiene and distancing rules. But with me in the studio now is d. W. Political correspondent leoni from hamish time who was at the protest many you were out there for hours you told me. You spoke to lots of people there what were they telling you what were their demands while oh there were a lot of different people out there now as you said we spoke to many of them some of their demands included including by the organizers who put their demands in the document before the eve
It was the big gainer. It closed at an alltime high. Tech has been leading the way. Sales force, facebook, taketwo and qualcomm at record highs you have to watch one stock in particular apple. After more than 10 gain on friday and thursday night, it closed up 2. 5 to an alltime high percentages away from hitting the 2 trillion market cap that 4 to 1 stock split is hit that price has to sit 477 not far off. Weve been talking about the pressure that has been put on yields in the treasury market. Right now, the 10year note at 0. 45 . Scott . Becky, im listening to you talk about tech and these companies. We have to get ready to talk nasdaq 11,000. As crazy as that would sound, we are on the doorstep. In spitting distance, basically. Unbelievable. Largy carri largely carried by these big five apple, amazon, facebook and alpha bes alphabet and microsoft looking back in march, would you have thought we would be talking nasdaq 11,000 by summer . No way. There is reason for it if you look at s
Freemarket economics in judeochristian principles. During this session several members of the House Freedom caucus discussed u. S. China relations and how it impacts their districts. Welcome back to the center. We had an actionpacked day. You are about ready to see the best of the best. These are the heroes in congress from Freedom Caucus and the conservative caucus. My good friends up in d. C. Still fighting the fight, that we are still china today and on going to go one by one. We have three panels of four u. S. Congressman so we are honored to have all of you here today, and lets just start off with brian babin from texas, and bryant, im going to leadoff with the other brothers from congress who can do this in the back room, hello, brothers back there, and sisters. I can hear you in the back room. They are all my friends. Con babbitt, want to ask you all kinds of first hurdle is upon which anything else depends is the sense of how did china send us this virus . Was it intentional in
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
An air blockade on the country increased military activity on the border between azerbaijan and armenia with casualties on both sides. And really well into the sports news and as saudi arabia tries to take over a premier league club. That announces that its canceling the license of one of the premier leagues Biggest Group calls parties be in sports details coming out this hour and billions reaction to. Chinese Telecommunications Giant huawei will be banned from the u. K. s 5 g. Network the move which is a major backtrack on the British Governments previous position were likely delay the rollout of the network by at least a year the ban follows sanctions imposed by the us which claims the company poses and National Security threat qua way denies this of the u. K. s mobile provide. Will not be able to buy any new huawei 5 g. Equipment after the september 31st they have also been given 7 years to remove all while away 5 g. Equipment presently in their systems 3 g. And 4 g. Equipment can s