Ethiopian egypt are expected to restart talks on the controversial nile dam project the President Donald Trump warns could lead to military. So with exactly a week to go now before the u. S. Election theres been a surge in early voting in part due to end in spite of the coronavirus pandemic more than 63000000 americans have voted by monday night already 4000000 more than all the early votes cast in 2016 the National Polls are giving democratic contender joe biden a solid lead although its a lot tighter in some battleground states the coronavirus pandemic continues to cast this shadow over proceedings infections is surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began stop. Markets in the u. S. Saw their biggest day one day drop in a month as concern grows that failure to contain the outbreak will hurt the economic recovery a rescue package remains he
Record employment for the for the year of 2019. That is the Silver Lining as well. We are still waiting for new credit data out of china which deadline, within the the 17th of this month. That is when we get to gdp numbers as well. Su keenan in new york. Su lets start with proand antigovernment demonstrators facing off in central tehran over the shooting down of a passenger jet last week. All 176 people on board the ukrainian plane died when it was head by two missiles asked fired by the revolutionary guard. Iran initially blamed technical issues for the crash. Is calling forni a special court to investigate the disaster. The entire world is watching. In the u. S. , the senate is withg closer to a review democrat tim kaine saying he has enough republican votes to pass a bill limiting the president s ability to launch an attack without congressional approval. The news reflect bipartisan dissatisfaction over the administrations very best varying justifications for the drone site strike i
Run continues. 111 s p new highs today as we watchaction in technology. Despite some downgrades and plenty of commentary from henl fu hedge fund managers. Alphabet becoming the fourth firm to reach a trillion dollars. The five Top Tech Companies account for 70 of the s p and worth 5 trillion combined happy friday, gent, go tshggente you. Good to see you barry, you had moves in markets, bull markets of the 90s compared to bull markets of the 20s you said we have not hit the blow off top but were on our way. If you look at the exponential trends, a curve increasing at an increasing rate that characterized the 1920s bull market. It characterized the 1990s this one has been more linear and it doesnt have the upward sloping curve since the 2009 low. So i find it hard to believe that weve seen the top because we have not entered that parabolic move how would you know when were close . Well, youll see the parabolic move that will be the first thing euphoria, a lot less doubt in the market i h
Foreign purchases. We have the first public impeachment hearing testimony revealing the president s lawyer was digging up dirt in his shadow diplomacy in ukraine. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up when it comes to the start of trading here in sydney. Investors dealt a pretty mixed hand overnight. Stocks closing pretty close to fresh record highs. Still, uncertainty over the lingering trade negotiations continuing to chip away at sentiment. We are hearing potentially the agricultural purchases that had been a solid part of the phase i deal could be in doubt. China reportedly saying if these tariffs are not resolved, they could back away from purchasing more u. S. Soy and pork. Taking a look at the picture, just about 1 10 of 1 . Watching the labor market numbers, typically quite volatile, could be a move in the aussie dollar. New zealand, upside about 1 10 of 1 after the reserve bank of new zealand held on rates for their last meeting of the year somewhat unexpectedly, causing
To avoid deportation to sweden, Chelsea Manning on a similar rep spent 13 years, was sentenced to 13 years, has spent seven. Hasjulian assigned to spend his time already . It feels to me, like something is a goner half my lifetime, not quite that long but it feels like it is been going on forever, and as you said he has been in broadmarsh, i think he was in one of the london South American embassies, so he has barely had a normal life for what feels like a few decades, and the more this goes on the more one feels that she is gay gaining a certain amount of public sympathy, particular for those on the centreleft, and most people have forgotten what he was accused of in the first place, guilty of leaking extremely sensitive secrets, so i wonder if this is ever going to go anywhere, and whether he would actually ever shot stand trial in the United States, because it seemed so much time has passed and people would ratherjust move on from this. Susan, why is the Us Administration so intent