And deal . Or no deal . After seemingly coming to a bipartisan agreement earlier this week, the president s Infrastructure Agenda is in jeopardy after angering republicans. If only one comes to me, im not this if this is the only thing that comes to me, im not signing. Its in tandem. We are going to break down what comes next. Plus, the Derek Chauvin sentencing. Former minneapolis cop gets 22 1 2 years in prison, but is likely to serve less than that. George floyds cousin, tara brown, will join me later in the hour to talk about how the family is feeling following the sentencing. We are also going to look ahead to the charges chauvin is now facing. But first, i want to get to those breaking new developments in the Trump Organization probe. The New York Times reporting that the former president s company could be hit with criminal charges by the manhattan das office, as early as next week. The case is believed to be focused on gifts and fringe benefits, distributed to trumporganization
The country is looking to inflict a historic nightmare on the united states. Late yesterday, one of the Key Developments was the pentagon dispatching 2200 more marines to the persian gulf as part of Amphibious Assault group. It is interesting that the secretary, pressed on the intelligence, said a lot of intelligence was what he had already done. He had already attacked americans. That is an anticipatory selfdefense. Bill the first reaction from the u. S. For the first commentary was there was an imminent threat posed by soleimani. Iranians and iraqi officials have said solomonic was on some kind of Diplomatic Mission soleimani was on some kind of Diplomatic Mission. Pompeo mocked that and said this guy had a lot of blood on his hands. David what about iraq . What about baghdad . Where with the notion we might leave the country and pull our forces out of there . Confusion when what appeared to be a draft letter from u. S. Military officials starting to talk about repositioning of u. S.
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Im nejra cehic in london. Were checking a third day of declines for european equities. The the stoxx 600 down. 7 . The bloomberg dollar index on track for its first weekly loss in a month. The dollar weaker against yen. The b. O. J. Pushing for more stimulus. Well talk about that more throughout the show and the new Zealand Dollar best performer in this session on the announcement of a new central bank governor. Perhaps that might not hold up with some of the data were going to get next week but thats how were looking in todays session. Coming up today on surveillance, we talk surveillance and get a take on markets later on in the morning. First lets get the first word news. Greenbrussels, giving the light for brexit talks to move on to the next stage. They have complied with their conditions over a future trade deal. Diplomats warned the discussions will be more difficult than the First Six Months of talks. In japan, calling for more stimulus, prompted the b. O. J. To adjust its commu
Anna welcome to the program. Manus, its monday morning at 6 00. We need to talk about highball. The cost of borrowing the chinese currency in hong kong has increased the most on record overnight. Those records go back a few years or so. We are seeing the liquidity impact of the fx interventions which are said to have been conducted by the pboc last week. We are seeing the cost of money get more expensive in hong kong. Manus this is all about china, all about concerns. Have we reached a capitulation moment . Are your rates overnight for the yuan in hong kong. Trying to stop the flow of money in terms of the offshore yuan. Lets look at the contagion effect. Coming out byey 9 . Lets have a look at some of the fx boards. 57. 8. Rand trading at macquarrie, a combination of stocks and margin calls. Mass capitulation. The yen advances to its strongest since august. Speculators going net long on the currency. Of korean won at the bottom your screen, a fiveyear low. Anna lets have a look at whe