Crude posting its longest winning streak in a year. Opec cuts may be draining the blood. And top fed officials weigh in on negative rates, saying such a move is not on the agenda for the foreseeable future. Shery lets get to a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures holding steady, after we saw the s p 500 fall on rising u. S. China tensions that we saw in the regular session. The s p 500 fell eight tense of 1 . Technology and utility also leading the losses. We have heard from china responding to act as asians from President Trump warning that responding to comments from President Trump warning that nasdaq sides biggest composite fall in more than a week. We also have some abysmal Economic Data. Millions of americans claiming jobless benefits. We are seeing wti under pressure, but still above the 33 a barrel level. This after sessions of gains. We are talking about the longest winning streak in more than a year. Haidi and really that crude story may be a bright spot as
Opecs cuts may be draining the glut. The bank of japan prepares for unscheduled talks as the coronavirus keeps extra pressure on the economy. Help for Small Business tops the agenda. Downside are seeing a start to trading on this final friday session of the week. Overwhelmingly, the concern over these escalating tensions between washington and beijing, and now also, beijings expected move to impose the National Security law on hong kong and we are watching, in particular, the start of mainland trading as well as hong kong trading and trading in the hong kong dollar but in the meantime, we are seeing a downside view when it comes to nikkei futures as well as kospi. Sydney futures looking to extend losses of. 4 in the previous session although we could expect to see some modest gains when it comes to the Energy Sector given the gains and that story when it comes to the continued rally in oil prices. We are also watching trading in new zealand. We had retail Sales Numbers out in the last
Will hear more about the victims and their communities mourning their loss. Plus as tensions are rising in germany and russia look for Common Ground german chancellor Angela Merkel meets with russian president Vladimir Putin to bridge greater diplomacy to the translators have several significant points of dispute can they align their views on the middle east. Im tired read welcome to the program the commander of irans revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian passenger jet on wednesday iran says the firing of the missile at the plane was a mistake blaming human error after the plane flew s. It flew near a sensitive military site 176 people were killed in the crash tehran had previously denied claims from. U. S. And canada that was responsible. An explosion in the sky this mobile phone footage was one factor that led western countries to suspect an Iranian Missile attack on the ukrainian passenger plane finally after days of vehement denial iran
A cease fire and an effort to end a conflict that has claimed 14000. 00 lives. Syrian on the Russian Forces pound the rebel held province of idlib with air strikes killing dozens of people and displacing thousands. And we could keep the noise on the lot. No hope of finding any more survivors on new zealands white island after a volcano erupts killing 5 people 8 more are still missing. We start in the u. S. Where the House Judiciary Committee has held another hearing in the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump attorneys for both parties presented arguments for and against impeaching trump hes accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden is there was how does your castro has more. Fireworks inside of mondays impeachment he. Likely the last before the House Judiciary Committee draft articles of impeachment came not just from protesters but also republican members committed to showing that they believe the proceedings against trump are a sham
Friend, but she doesnt know it. Lupita nyongo is here, everybody. cheers and applause we are going to be talking about New York Times bestsellinh Childrens Book and the new star wars movie shes in. Also on tonights show, we find the worst place to have your wedding. Ronny chieng sees dead people. And the u. S. Government admits its been lying to you. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with time magazines person of the year. Its an annual message to the worlds other 7. 7 billion people that you suck. laughter and this years honoree is an obvious choice. This was Just Announced moments ago. The time person of the year is 16yearold Climate Change activist greta thunberg. You remember when the swedish teen took on u. N. World leaders at the Climate Change summit. 16 years old. Congratulations to her. She had a passionate plea garnering a lot of attention. And for way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything at all to fig