Killed the governments been forced to hold a referendum to hold the constitution. In time on protesters and ended their friday demonstration not the defying a government ban on gatherings for the 3rd day. Organizers urged the crowds to return home and avoid more confrontations with Police Security forces used water cannon to break a barricade set up by demonstrators in the center of the capital bangkok haida has more from the capital. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protesters in tahrir police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd date thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before. As promised in an announcement just after the violence began taia thordis began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demanding a new constitution reform of the monarchy and the resignat
Hang seng is flat. Taiwan is the leader on the board. We will talk about tsmc. They are gaining on the back of the apple news. We continue to watch dollar renminbi. 16 month high for the yen. We could be set for the best performance ever for the renminbi. Look at whats going on the rest of g10. Still seeing a strong yen. Pound is gaining for a third day at 129. The dollar falling to the twoweek low ahead of the fed decision. Take a look at bond yields ahead, not much movement. Its pretty quiet before the fed. Six the seven basis points for u. S. 10 year. Bondsl off in government the fall off in government bonds may have run its course. Saw the biggest cash injects and since 2018. Crude jumping on the back of that Better Chinese data we got yesterday. Back to our top story. A big win on paper, but not much in the real world. Says that Donald Trumps tariffs on chinese goods violated International Regulations, but its unlikely to make much of a material difference. Lets get more from our
Beijing praises the decision while President Trump says he is not a fan. A focusson says now on his cabinet lineup. And plans for structural reform. Are seeing a lot of investors sticking by the sidelines, a quiet session in the u. S. Overnight. Wall street hanging out to see what further guidance we get from the fed after their decision. A great chunk of investors will be waiting for more details as to the revamp inflation target. We are seeing futures trading flat. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rising. The s p seeing a Third Straight session of gains. For a change, we saw gains across tech, outweighing the decline we saw across financials. Treasury yields at the dollar end of the day, where they started. We are seeing the likes of the dollaryen holding steady, this as we look set to see the appointment of yoshida suda as the new japanese Prime Minister. As well as hearing more about whether we will see continuity across his cabinet appointments. We are watching at to see if another
At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
Say the least after a bit of a rebound the other day when i was on with you, yesterday i was not here for what was a decline overall in all the markets. I think we are in a new era of volatility. Every single time we get an up opening people say, okay, i guess that selloff is over and when we get the printed selloff people say this selloff is going to go on for ages. I urge people to step back and recognize we are in a period where theres a lot of vacuum, a lot of people trying to buy when its going up, a lot of people trying to sell when its going down and just interpret that as just being enthusiasm, greed and then fear and accept it that its here to stay because its really the undercurrent behind these moves. Okay. And what does that mean in terms of this socalled playbook that you often offer people who listen to what you have to say sure. It means that if you think that it is going to bounce today because it was down hard yesterday, dont make the first move wait to see whether the