Looking at the hang seng and nikkei up. Shanghai composite took a dip overnight. European equities, pretty much a green picture across the board. Mostly marginal with the italian ftse down a bit. Wti crude, where were now hovering at 51. 17. Todays the day donald trump will give his first News Conference as president elect. It is scheduled for 11 00 a. M. At trump tower. You can watch the conference on cnbc at 11 00. The mexican peso tumbled to historic lows since the election because of concerns that the president elect could take measures that would weigh on mexicos currency. Former exxonmobil ceo riler son facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing. First trump responding to new unsubstance yated claims that russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him. Eamon javers has the latest. As this election season goes on, the bar continually gets raised for what can be shocking. As we hear more and more. Yesterday completely filled t
At some point it comes back as an avalanche. Creditors are weighing whether the country is in compliance with the terms of the bailout. That is needed to unlock the next installment of aid. Six years after the disaster at the fukushima plant in japan, scientists still dont have all the answers they need. They have to find the melted radioactive fuel before they can begin removal. Until they do that, they cannot start the cleanup that will take for decades and cost 70 billion. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am emma chandra. This is bloomberg. World live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, i am julie hyman, in for scarlet fu today. Joe im joe weisenthal. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u. S. Julie u. S. Stocks near record highs as we enter holiday weekend. Joe the question is, whatd you miss . Julie President Trump has been in office for about a month and despite the political chaos, the stock
Justice department boiled over when james comey notified congress they were moving forward into their investigation of Hillary Clinton. Attorney general lynch obviously shielded Hillary Clinton from indictment and somehow kept her informed of the departments unlikelihood to press forward which allowed hillary to brazenly express her innocence. Hillarys hubris wasnt as overt when she held a News Conference friday. We heard these rumors. We dont know what to believe. Im sure there will be even more rumors. Thats why it is incumbent pointed f. B. I. To tell was they are talking about. Because your guess as good as mine. My guess is Loretta Lynch is dealing with an f. B. I. Director who has gone rogue. In the Clinton Foundation they were not authorized to actively pursue. They were shut down by Andrew Mccabe whose wife was given 500,000 by terry mcauliffe. Terry mcauliffe also being investigated. Dems are trying to make weiner the fall guy in all of this. A professional reputation beyond r
Justice department boiled over when james comey notified congress they were moving forward into their investigation of Hillary Clinton. Attorney general lynch obviously shielded Hillary Clinton from indictment and somehow kept her informed of the departments unlikelihood to press forward which allowed hillary to brazenly express her innocence. Hillarys hubris wasnt as overt when she held a News Conference friday. We heard these rumors. We dont know what to believe. Im sure there will be even more rumors. Thats why it is incumbent pointed f. B. I. To tell was they are talking about. Because your guess as good as mine. My guess is Loretta Lynch is dealing with an f. B. I. Director who has gone rogue. In the Clinton Foundation they were not authorized to actively pursue. They were shut down by Andrew Mccabe whose wife was given 500,000 by terry mcauliffe. Terry mcauliffe also being investigated. Dems are trying to make weiner the fall guy in all of this. A professional reputation beyond r
To visit trump tower. The company will invest billions in the United States. Haidi and diamonds are one of rios best friends. Rishaad the dow headed to a fresh record high, s p within a whisker of a record as well. Haidi this is a reaction to the italian referendum, a very distant memory right now. Things seem to be getting shorter and shorter, these major selloffs after socalled black swan offense, but we do have his optimism, but obviously a big day in asia. A bit of a disappointing read on gdp on the Third Quarter in australia. Rishaad straight to the markets, heres david. David right. Quiet start of the day, but obviously we have the aussie gdp print. You have these lines out of the Financial Services commission starting to kick things off on whats likely to be a very busy some ofe of the go for these lines here, coming out of the south korean policymakers that have discussed ways in which they can alleviate the effect of rising yields. The dollar to debts of a lot of the south Kor