Suggest a post virus recovery. Highest andsides smart and Mark Zuckerberg toends the response controversial president ial tweets but his unstaffed is not agree. But his own staff does not agree. To shrug offng tensions on the streets, curfews being applied in major cities. We are seeing asia heading into the wednesday session looking likely to extend the basking in the globe we saw overnight. We have nikkei futures in australia as well as in hong kong, all pointing to a positive start to trade. The dollar fell overnight, the yen also slunk leading to some positivity out of trading. The rckiwi pair trading at its highest since october, really an indication as we see these outperform, investors feeling risk on despite gdp numbers that could show the first technical recession we are headed into in about 30 years. Pretty flattrading after seven consecutive days of gains. Americans are bracing for another night of unrest. Cities have extended their curfews. Trumpile, president feeling embat
And the attention turns to the whistleblowers complaint in the latest twist in this impeachment inquiry. And Boris Johnson faces the angry. So disagreed with the governments commitment, they could have voted for a general election welcome to street signs. Political uncertainty on both sides of the atlantic this week. Before we get to that, there are some key corporate stories Imperial Brands is flat. Ecigarettes are under threat. The companys stock is now down 9 this morning. British American Tobacco down almost 3 . Fullyear operating profits will come in at the bottom end. British education came in weaker than expected on the course web business you can see it trading down more than 6 . In the airlines sector, recent pilot strikes forced iag to issue a profit warning the airline said adjusted profits will be 215 Million Euros lower pilots have already walked out two days theyve canceled strikes scheduled for tomorrow finance damage has already been done back to the politics President
How he escaped and hard times for london financial high flyer sentenced to prison for 14 years for manipulating Interest Rates. Good to have you with us. No more can the world say that the u. S. Is not getting serious about Climate Change. Today president obama unvailed his clean power plant which for the first time will severely restrict and reduce carbon emissions. Renew energy laid out by the president as he warned his country not to wait any longer on fighting Climate Change. The move has been welcomed by europe and the u. N. The president declared war on coal. Heres part of what obama had to say. President obama were the first generation to feel climate chat and the last generation to do something about it. And thats why i committed the United States to leading the world on this challenge. That if we dont get it right we may not be able to reverse. And we may not be able to adapt sufficiently. There is such a thing as being too late when it comes to Climate Change. And today were
Boo incredibly easy. And when the gloom lifts. The house of pain. It almost feels like a reprieve from some sort of stock market death sentence. As it did today with the dow climbing 83 points. The nasdaq declined. 77 . Largely because of apple, more on that later. Now, i am not dismissive of the negativity that i see pretty much everywhere. Weve got a couple of real solid reasons to feel totally down beat. First, i cant believe were still focusing on this thing. For five years weve had to keep one eye on wall street, one eye on wall street. I remember who tenyear stretches i didnt care what was happening down there. At the moment, we can barely focus on anything but washington. The whole u. S. Economy, your entire portfolio is hostage to two warring parties, demonstrating a level of partisanship thats been measured to being the worst since 1860, the origins of the civil war. Lets hope it doesnt take out that particular benchmark. Were witnessing the titanic struggle between those who
Strikes against the is asad regime. Chuck hagel and john kerry and Martin Dempsey facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the first public hearing of the force in syria. Well tap into the Global Resources of cnn to bring you the most complete coverage of the crisis in syria. We begin this morning with Brianna Keilar live at the white house. Good morning, brianna. Reporter chris good morning to you. White house officials that ive spoken with feel positively about their prospects of hammering out an agreement with congress that would allow them to militarily strike syria but they admit there is still a lot of convincing to do. Two key republicans voicing new optimism about president obamas plans in syria after a meeting in the oval office. Senator john mccain, the president s former rival, now a key ally in the fight to get congress on board for military action. We want to work to make that resolution something that majority of the members of both houses can support. Reporter bu