York city, this is Maria Bartiromo wall street. Maria happy weekend, welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was in position you for the week ahead. I am Maria Bartiromo. Lawmakers on capitol hill are trying to find a new speaker of the house, all congressional work has been halted until a new leader is elected. Candidates are speaking out against the move by a handful of house gop to oust kevin mcc mccarthy. Its not helpful and it does not help us focus on the issues the everyday voters care about. Chaos is never americas friend. He gives people more of a concern about her party being a governing party and that is bad for all of us. Maria one candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was a different tone. The point of removing the House Speaker was to so chaos. The real question to ask, lets get to the bottom of it whether chaos is really such a bad th thing. There are many names being discussed when the house replaced mccarthy jim jordan in steve scalise. Some gop house members are nomina
For boj officials given you have the week yen that could be adding to the inflation story but still they are not likely to hike at this point. Weekends supports the exporters and today weak yen supports the exporters. And we saw sharp losses in the tech sector. Lets look at korea at the start here because we see it moving a little higher, trade data dropping, first 20 days of april numbers for trade and exports rising 11 for the year, positive for korea and a barometer for global trade as it could play into the story korean won has been against the backdrop very much of king dollars so just recapping the trade numbers for the first 20 days of april, exports up for the year and imports gaining as well and we have as i said again the first 20 days of april so a reversal from a contraction the month prior. Paul australia has just opened for trade and it is a stagnant open but we see modest again modest gains. A theme we saw towards the end of last week even though losses on asx gold stock
The water supply in conditions when the influx from the dnieper cannot be expected; scientists decided to drill wells, but, in the meantime, the facts of shelling and the intensification of hostilities in the immediate vicinity of europes Largest Nuclear facility is confirmed by mmt employees, but they do not elaborate. Our correspondent Olga Kurlaeva is monitoring who exactly is striking the situation in the area of the Zaporozhye Nuclear power plant. The water in the kakhovka reservoir has dropped by 6 m, it is practically empty, but the water level in the cooling pond of the Zaporozhye Nuclear power plant remains at high levels. Zaporozhye Nuclear Scientists are doing everything to ensure that the Nuclear Facility does not need water and are looking for alternative sources. First of all , we kept the water in the cooling pond itself and prevented it from overflowing. Let the kakhovka reservoir be strengthened by the shandora. At the junction of two reservoirs, we installed pro
The latest trend in fashion. , whichs a trend growing are u. S. Companies bringing their cash back from abroad. We know apple is the big one. They are going to be bringing billions of dollars back, which means theyre going to pay 38 billion in taxes. And that is really, for lawmakers to pass the tax reform, that is the eyes on the prize. They have built up this much money overseas, when are they going to bring it back, and how much is it going to bet go back how much of it is going to go back to the economy. In creating jobs, which is most important to the white house. Those numbers that were highlighted in the press release if you look underneath the hood, theres questions of how much is going to be repatriated back and where it is going to go . A lot of the money is in the denominated dollars. And will other Companies Follow as well . In the meantime, another note on that, apple is spreading the joy, with employees getting bonuses. We also have overall stocks up, and a wild ride that
Coming up. Government with a referendum vote on sunday. President trump plans to cut the number of refugees entering the u. S. To the lowest level for decades plus south korea. Celebrates another four. Hours after winning a landslide in the secession referendum the government of the rocks kurdish region has rejected baghdads demand to hand over control of the results been announced despite a last minute appeal to cancel it by the iraqi Prime Minister reports and to build. Up the percent of voters city. Yes to secession to the kurdish region of northern iraq. The referendum is very important it will for my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. With the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and hes refusing to even recognize the result let alone start negotiations with the Kurdish Regional government ok allergy over future independence for iraq. Events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the m