Back of that record, record, record we cannot say that enough because we have indices at fresh record highs and the u. S. Stocks one of them, 23rdthe s p 500 this year. That is playing into the session, the nikkei 225, up. 80 today, and we saw that rally rod base in the session but in japan, the focus is on financials because we had a number of banks yesterday recording better than stronger forecast for the year ahead. What alsos claim into the dynamic are gdp figures what is also playing into that dynamic are the gdp figures. A lot worse than what was expected with the contraction of 1. 2 , and retail and business spending, as well. Lets switch to korea because we are coming back from an extended holiday on wednesday. The kospi pushing up high, 1. 4 , softening the weakness we saw in u. S. Housing and retail sales. We are also seeing the focus in korea is on how korea is trying to boost its online stock market with the program that mirrors what we have seen in japan so far, and we do
Americas klose ast ally in the middle east gets ready for war a video of a hostage appearing to be safe linked in is letting go o employees. How drake share as record with the king of pop and well introduce you to the colorado high schooler whose did their wheelchairbound friend a solid early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena i im frances rivera. For the second time as commander in chief, President Biden will travel to another country actively at war. The president is expected to visit israel on wednesday, meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu and other israeli lead ares. Brie jackson joins us from washington, d. C. Brie, good morning what is President Biden hoping to accomplish on this highstakes trip the visit was first announced by secretary of state Antony Blinken who also revealed diplomatic progress overnight. A Senior State Department official tells nbc news, blinken was involved in nine hours of negotiations with israel the two countries were able to work out a plan
Inflation numbers are up. Sharper than expected. You are looking at yields at tenyear at 2. 6 . We have news breaking overnight. Uk watchdog giving the green light to the microsoft 69 billion takeover bid of activisionblizzard. It removes the hurdle for the deal to close. The regulators said this deal would stop microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming and preserve customers. In a post on x, brad smith said we are grateful for the review and decision today. We crossed the final regulatory hurdle to close the deal to benefit players in the gaming industry worldwide. This has been one for the books. Saga that i dont think anyone was anticipating would go on this long. Given all of the regulatory hurdles. Maybe the ftc. And cma. There was a question of if they would ultimately approve it. 22 months. A long time coming. A lot of questions of what this means. Just about every deal will be questioned by the doj or cma. Microsoft took the extreme steps and saying we will do whate
Making a statement about Public Safety with a strike. We are live in oakland this hour. But first, a man is dead after being hit by a garbage truck in san jose overnight. The very latest on what happened. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thanks for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im noelle bellow. Our top story today. A second pedestrian death in san jose in 24 hours. Time this time a garbage truck struck and killed a man around 3. 30 this morning. Kron fours will tran has the very latest. How anybody get hit. In a parking lot that still the mystery, especially since there wasnt a lot of traffic at 3 oclock in the morning. Right now, the garbage truck is still on the scene and were talking hours after the fatal accident. You can see police officers. They have taken to the air with their drones to look down at landscape to see exactly what went down at around 3 oclock in the morning. You can see thats the garbage truck that was involved in the fatal collisio
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