Clashes on the streets of georgias capital tbilisi as fountains of protesters attempt to blockade the Parliament Building. And im leah harding with sports australias Prime Minister slams rugby star israel folau for his comments on the countrys bushfires claim the fires are gods way of punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion laws. Saudi arabia says yemens whos these have hijacked a ship towing a south korean drilling rig in the red sea but the rebels theyve captured military vessels the official has told aljazeera they will release the drilling rig once they can confirm that belongs to south korea the saudi government is called the incident a terrorist operation who these have in the past targeted vessels off yemen at the southern mouth of the red sea. Joins us from yemens capital sana take us through this and try to clarify exactly whats happened here is this the hijacking of a saudi ship and a south korean oil rig or are we still trying to ascertain. Yes accordi
Numbers. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this friday steve weiss, John Najarian, jenny harrington, and rob s seichen. Our heads are spinning, our portfolios gyrating. Was this week a sign, steve, of whats to come absolutely. This is very indicative of what weve seen, and indicative of whats to come there are these camps that there is a recession, there isnt a recession. I dont think it really matters. Markets can go down without a recession, and they do it all comes down to trade at the end of the day, you have to come through that and you have to have some calmness on the trade front. No more tweets if you have that, youll continue to move up. Today was virtually i wouldnt call it a meltup, but every major market is up more than 1 . Relief on the yield front exactly maybe it all, jenny, comes down to yields if yields can rise a little bit, it takes some of the pressure off the stock market do you agree
Say we sometimes have disagreements over tactics but no one supports irans expansionist revolutionary Foreign Policy they want iran to pull back to its own borders and to stop arming hezbollah to stop arming the huth these to stop supplying funding and weapons to their proxies in iraq and syria those are the kind of things that we need our position now there is no acceptable level of lethal assistance to a proxy and that has to end so the United States position has not softened meanwhile iran has announced it is violating the Nuclear Enrichment levels that it agreed to and that multinational agreement from which the u. S. Has pulled out so that standoff intensifies and the potential for conflict only increases. Well the gulf is one of the worlds most important and busiest shipping lanes to give you a sense of just how many ships are transiting through the waterways there this is a look now at marine traffic dot com those red dots youre looking at there just the tankers operating in the
Understandably concerned. Sad two lives are gone. Sad. Possible murder, suicide. Thats sad to hear. Reporter and were back live here. You can see investigators still on the scene. Were told they will be here for some time. It will take quite awhile im told for them to figure out exactly what happened here given the condition of the bodies. The bottom line though, larry and ama, is that investigators do not believe theres any danger to the surrounding community. Laura, so they said the victims appear to have been shot. Did neighbors happen to hear megunshots . Reporter thats interesting part of this, ama. In hindsight, investigators are saying that now neighbors are saying they think they might have heard Something Like gunshots on sunday afternoon but nobody called and reported anything like that at the time. So at this point, theyre having to work backwards so to speak. Laura anthony reporting live. Thank you. Stay on top of breaking news when it happens with the abc7 news app. Enable
Cents. The price of gold holding steady. Its up just a little. Have we got a price there . Okay. We will get to it later. Its 1300 an ounce. What did you say . 14 . Gold is 1400 an ounce this morning. Big gain yesterday, a fractional gain this morning. Got that. Investors do not know what to make of this. Chinas leader goes to north korea. Interesting that right after that visit was announced, President Trump called xi jinping and worked out an extended meeting. So its a threeway dance and no one knows whether it helps the trade talks or not. Look at this, too. After a big rally yesterday, no significant pullback this morning. Yes, the dow, the s p, the nasdaq, they will all open lower but all three are still at or very close to their alltime highs, despite whats going on around the world. Go figure, maybe. Friday morning. Varney company about to begin. Stuart want you to see the video. Look at it. Its cooling down a little bit now but that was a massive explosion at an oil refinery in