Bomb was dropped. Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue will call on nations to realize a World Without nuclear arms and hell urge japans government to take the initiative as the only country to have suffered nuclear bombing. Taue also plans to touch on president Barack Obamas visit to hiroshima in may. Hell ask other World Leaders to follow suit. Taue reads a peace declaration every year, but as the number of survivors declines, his message becomes more urgent. People in nagasaki are coming together to commemorate those who were killed in the atomic bombing of the city 71 years ago. Survivors and family members of those who died have been gathering near ground zero since early this morning to pray for the victims. Translator i can never sleep well in august. I think my life was spared so that i could pray for the victims. Translator we must keep calling for the abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Translator i would like president obama to visit nagasaki, too. Hiroshima was not the only place that wa
Silence at 11 02, the moment the bomb was dropped. Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue will call on nations to realize a World Without nuclear arms and hell urge japans government to take the initiative as the only country to have suffered nuclear bombing. Taue also plans to touch on president Barack Obamas visit to hiroshima in may. Hell ask other World Leaders to follow suit. Taue reads a peace declaration every year, but as the number of survivors declines, his message becomes more urgent. People in nagasaki are coming together to commemorate those who were killed in the atomic bombing of the city 71 years ago. Survivors and family members of those who died have been gathering near ground zero since early this morning to pray for the victims. Translator i can never sleep well in august. I think my life was spared so that i could pray for the victims. Translator we must keep calling for the abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Translator i would like president obama to visit nagasaki, too. Hiroshi
Hour Favorite Song on a friday. Welcome to world Wide Exchange. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Very good morning to you from me as well. Happy friday. Lets check in on the markets this morning. Triple record close yesterday. The dough the s p 500 and the nasdaq all finishing at a record high. First time weve seen that happen on the same day since december 1999. Im dplad you finished that because i wouldnt have gotten it right. Looks like the gains are continuing on this friday morning extending those record highs just a little bit here. Dow futures up 11. 35. S p up 1. Nasdaq up a little more than 3. That includes for bonds as well into stocks and out of bonds. The tenyear yield up slightly yesterday and sort of backing off to flat this morning. 1. 53. It is off the highs we saw around 1. 57. Still low yields dominate even with the jump in stocks. Absolutely right. Well talk more about the record highs. Lets have a look around the rest of the world first. European equities have had a
Continued to percolate higher and higher. Despite everybody being on vacation. Stocks are coming off of a record setting session from yesterday. The dow t s p 500 and the nasdaq all reaching new highs on the same day. Thastz the first time that has happened since december 31 of 1999. Folks this is almost 17 years ago. A little context on that, the top movie at the box office when that happened was football drama, any given sunday starring all pa menechino and maybe this dates me. I remember. I remember watching that movie. Take a look at this, u. S. Equity futures at this hour up 11 points. If youre looking at the dow futures. S p up just over a point and the nasdaq up 2. Overnight in asia, looks likes the shanghai comp was up 1. 6 . The hang sang up us. 8 . The nikkei up 1 . And the early trading in europe right now, see what the markets are mixed, but not Much Movement one direction or the other. The dax is down by about a quarter percent. The cac and the ftse are relatively flat. Ta
Attracting overseas investors for the first time in history. A singaporean is buying a 49 stake. Do let us know what you think of todays top stories. The china and hong kong markets get underway in 30 minutes, but singapore, taiwan, and malaysia coming online. How is the trading week shaping up so far . David extending losses from friday. We went into the european session, more weakness came through. This is what we are waking up to. Overall, the benchmarks down for a second straight day. Not the declines, primes are not quite there as well. That eating said, we are watching a few things. Singaporehailand and exports due out. South korea the only bright heaviest weighted stock of the index is up. 5 . If you look at what samsung brings to the table. You take it out, that index will show declines. There is your price for samsung electronics. , weency markets, dollaryen should be near session lows at the moment. We will be getting the speech at 2 30overnor kuroda p. M. Local time. We are