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Aljazeera. Where ever. I am fairly ok youre watching news stream home edition can we chat well apparently not very much longer in the United States the hugely popular chinese car it has been deemed a National Security threat alongside to talk we will pass whats behind president chants and in todays show and if you want you to be part of the conversation as well put your comments in the comments and you could be in the city. And looking forward to hearing these gifts i will say hello to the guests the guests were introduced themselves to you and im king link to where he hi my name is ken low and im a reporter for the South China Morning Post im based in hong kong and i cover Chinese Foreign policy is in china u. S. Relations im also host for the f. M. P. Podcast and site china which runs on chinas hot topics every week good to have to welcome back to the same mind i guess and our audience who you are going. Much like a researcher for Human Rights Watch i write and research your particul
Wisconsin protests. World Central Bank Leaders coming together virtually, Federal Reserve chair jay powell speaking at key economic conference and investors closely watching what he has to say. Ahead of the speech, few hours are lower. We are taking a look at decline at start of trading. S p and nasdaq hit record highs again yesterday. This morning dow futures down 88 points. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets this morning are red across the board. Take a look at european indices, the cac quarante down 31 and the dax index lower by 52. In asia overnight markets mostly lower, worst performer was korea down more than 1 . Top stories that we are watching this morning. Night 3 of the Republican National convention honoring americas bravest, devoting their lives defending our freedom. Since 9 11 ive seen americas heros up close. Some of them saved my life. Service, its more a word to me, its a way of life. Maria meanwhile mike pence touting President Trumps economic success
An eye watering loss. Costsosses and rising mean bonuses are set to disappoint. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat. This, of course, after we had the regular session seeing record highs. At one point, topping the record reached in february before the pandemic. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the green. We have nikkei futures moving higher as we have the japanese yen under pressure. We have seen it fall against the u. S. Dollar for the past four sessions. Right now trading around the weakest in three weeks. In sydney, futures higher. We have the aussie dollar listed a little bit higher. We have a softer u. S. Dollar, not to mention higher commodity prices. We have kiwi stocks at the moment gaining ground after seeing the worst day in a month. This as we have rbnz expanding their qe program. Gains in the currency returns, commodity exports, unr holdings qnr holding steady. U. S. And chinese negotiators plan to discuss progress in the phase one trade deal. Pushing toset to be widen the a
Regarding microsoft. Some people did not like the quarter but now we have something that puts them right it not passing in terms of the growth google and facebook among a certain demographic that people want which is the 18yearold demographic. I go on tiktok and there is a good one right now about Federal Express delivering packages versus u. P. S. Versus the post office david, your kids may like it at the same time, its got a lot of viewers it does 80 million here in the states. Yes, one of mine does typically it does skew more female than male and the other one doesnt but this is a fascinating situation, guys, for any number of reasons unlike anything i can recall having seen in part because the government is so deeply involved inbasically dictating the potential sale of a business to one company. And it really ends up being one company. You know, as you guys know, ive been following this to a large extent over the last few weeks and it was a difficult thing to imagine. How would go