Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a ron striking back with iran striking back after the u. S. Air strike that killed top iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. For more, simon foxman joins us from doha. What is the latest on the retaliatory attacks on the part of iran . Big question has been whether or not there are any casualties caused by this attack. We just saw, as i was sitting down, it appears u. S. Officials are saying no casualties. That they were informed of this before it happened. If there were casualties, it would have caused a much stronger u. S. Response, the thinking goes. If not, perhaps we could see ourselves moving towards some type of negotiation, some sort of diplomatic resolution. The ayatollah, and he the Ayatollah Khomeini saying this is a slap in the face to the United States. The foreign minister, though, taking a bit more of a co
That statement. Iranian leaders, they have made statements. They have largely avoided the bellicose language we have seen in the past. Overnight, leader ali khamenei says it was a slap in the face to america. They say they do not seek escalation or war. Obvious question this morning, was the attack deliberately proportionate, a oneoff that makes a point but doesnt risk a devastating american response . Can the iranians risk taking action that results in allout war . Their economy is collapsing. They are out of cash. What will the president say this morning and how will he say it . Escalation . A threatening tone . We will find out soon. Now look at this. Yet again, the market is largely shrugging off an attack in the middle east, in the middle of the oil patch, no less. When the news broke, futures showed a near 400point drop but look at it now. Down maybe 20 for the dow and all of that loss accounted for by just two dow stocks which we will mention momentarily. The s p is going to go
Energy is interesting because energy looks to be fairly red. Tried to stay independent. All in all, that is a positive industrials also being bought this morning. Move but now he is doing another not a very clear message coming from the sectors. What do we see in the movers . Move because he holds himself out of the election and that is the best he could do with the moment. No doubt we will see some moves our colleagues based on that. And we are getting gdp running that powell will need a figures out. Horror show to cut again. Third quarter gdp in spain is it your expectation that we do not get a recession, there is expanding 0. 4 . That matches the estimate but so no longer any need for rate you know gdp in spain is up 2 cuts . Momenti would say at the from a year earlier. There is no recession, the ,umbers do not sure recession. 4 as a month over month european thing. The way the americans do it is but he makes clear in his speech yearoveryear numbers. If something happens, that is n
Questions in the senate. The strain of the trade war. We will bring you an exclusive with the company ceo. Lets see how things are shaping up in the early part of the asian session. Not much of a guide to what happened on wall street overnight. Sentiment down after a report that the trade deal between the u. S. And china may not decide at aipac after all and that kind of took a dent out of the s p after seeing earlier record highs. The asx just going online. We are seeing a flat start to the trading day. Flat to the downside. New zealand seeing upside. A mixed picture when it comes to asia futures. We have the nikkei looking lower and the kospi pretty much flat we are looking at a mildly positive open. Well. D decision week as we are expecting a cut this week when it comes to december. Not so much certainty. We are also on bank of japan watch as well. Lets get you the first word news with gritted. With ritika gupta. Ritika lebanons Prime Minister has resigned. Demonstrators were attack
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