Boost the recovery. Larry summers says the coordinated Global Response is needed. And airbnb books an ipo in new york, aiming to list shares on the nasdaq. Booking through september a total of 18 billion. Although it admits covid19 continues to affect the business. Lets take a look at the asx. More than normal when it comes to the australian soft market after it had the data disruption out. Yesterday was the longest outage in about a decade. Of course, it meant australian traders missed out on the bulk of the days rally. Only trading for a halfhour. We are seeing a pretty modest start, less than 2 10 of 1 higher at the open. Perhaps some caution there could be more technical difficulties. We are seeing gains when it comes to trading in new zealand. Nikkei future setting off on a bad foot as we are seeing some profittaking. It does look like the vaccine driven optimism and the rather we saw overnight will continue, with s p active futures in the positive. Shery we have breaking news at
Exchanges. Regulators criticize the lack of access. Goldman sachs is set to be preparing a second round of job cuts in three months as a moratorium on firing amid covid19 comes to an end. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up in the first couple minutes of sydni trading. We have had a pretty cautious trading session this week ever since we had a Technical Glitch that essentially put the asx out of action for monday. We are seeing a little bit of a flight back to the opening session as we get more clarity in terms of the ongoing trade tensions between camera and beijing. Still on the back foot trading at the moment. We are seeing outside of half a percent trading in new zealand stocks. Shery we continue to see pressure in the futures markets. U. S. Futures down. 1 after stocks pulled back from record highs. We are seeing nikkei futures down 0. 4 , coming down from the highest level since 1991. The japanese yen unchanged, although one of the biggest gainers. Virus concerns. And wti
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Deaths near 700,000. Virgin australia rescuers are set to outline the Airlines Financial plan. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening flat. U. S. Stocks finished higher in the new york session. They fluctuate between gains and losses. Thestors are assessing prospect of another stimulus measure. Says they try to come up with a timeline on the deal. We expect to hear from President Trump at a press conference anytime now. The s p 500 was way down by financials but Energy Companies led the advance. Oil is losing at the moment. Heading toward 41 per barrel. This after we saw the biggest gain in two weeks. Lets look at the asian markets. Asian stocks are looking at a modest drop potentially ahead of the session. Toyota and honda are reporting today. The yen is holding below 106. China officials are reportedly set to meet around august 15. Barda futures heading higher. When it comes to commodity currency, we saw a lift up there given the rise in oil and metals. Cracked 2000 for the first time e
Plains a bombing on the army is very close. As the syrian offensive against province intensifies do w. Talks with a refugee here in germany who cant get his family out of harms way. And today marks 15 years since you tube was born we take a look at how far those massive video sharing site has com it all started with an elephant. And in case you forgot its valentines day e. W. Gives kids a say about it and children from around the world tell us what fills their hearts with have tips. Brian thomas great to have you with us for the program today the annual Munich Security Conference kicks off in just a few hours spring together. 35 heads of state and governments now one of their top issues the wests role on the International Stage and with concerns growing about made os commitment to its collective defense its biggest member is putting on a show of strength its. The biggest deployment of u. S. Military might to europe in a quarter century is heading this way for nato as defender 20 exerci