Frontiers for that sector in the new decade and facebook being called the new cigarettes for our society by the founder of salesforce. Com his critical take on the social media giant as Worldwide Exchange begins right nowe to exchange im dierdre bosa in for Brian Sullivan the second to last day of 2019, take a look at stock futures right now pretty much flat they are on track for a block buster year as i mentioned the s p on track for potentially its best year in two decades if it can squeeze out gains of nearly 30 . 29. 6 is the gain that we are looking at dow jones and the nasdaq also on track for a record year. Moving on to the bond market, the yield on the tenyear note currently 1. 912 lets go worldwide now in asia, markets were mixed in the last two days of the years investors awaiting updates on the trade deal and increasing tensions with north korea. Japan wrapping up its final trading day of 2019, down slightly, but the nikkei, that was up 18 for the year and what a turn around
Blood red in australia after another day of destructive bushfires. So theyve been rocket attacks in and around baghdad after u. S. Drone strikes killed irans top military commander customer in iraq 48 hours ago now there was one explosion in the heavily fortified green zone near the American Embassy to hit close to an iraqi base where there are u. S. Troops and contractors also the hezbollah a pro iran Paramilitary Group is warning iraqi forces to stay away from u. S. Bases has been grief and rage also filling the streets of baghdad as well as the shia holy cities of karbala and adjust these funeral processions being held for so many and the Iraqi Militia leader. Mohan this who was killed along side him diplomats and leaders made. Scrambling to ease the crisis between iran and the u. S. That is cut us foreign minister who is dispatched to major runs leaders also from the u. K. Saudi arabia all calling for calm as well some a binge of aid begins our coverage now from baghdad. Multiple a
Blood red in australia after another day of destructive bush from. Donald trump has issued a stark warning to iran threatening to hit dozens of targets inside the Islamic Republic if it retaliate for the targeted killing of top commander. The us president fired off a series of tweets part of which said iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain usa assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader let this serve as a warning that if iran strikes any americans or American Assets we have targeted 52. 00 iranian sites and those targets under ron itself will be hit very fast and very hard the usa wants no more threats lets cross live now to gable is on though he joins us now from washington d. C. The President Trump releasing a series of tweets warning iran about any response what morsi been saying. Yeah pretty incendiary tweets actually because in some of those he mentioned that some of these 52 sites that apparently the americans have on their radar ready to
Theyve known it for months they also know the senate will acquit and there is virtually 0 chance that the president will be removed from office and so the markets again have not responded to the negative way they havent really responded at all look at that and while politicians might lie. Numbers do not exactly and this is exactly what happened last friday when the parallel trader on trade deal was announced everybody expected the market to react as he said like i love the word political theater because thats what exactly what it is just like before us trade theater thats right we know we know what the outcome is going to be today theres not going to be any surprise and we know what the outcome will be one of the ultimate moves of the senate so the markets as youve said have already priced all of this and have a not exactly so its i actually dont understand why we have so much coverage when really its going to be a moot point all of this is just going to be thrown out ultimately thats
Said like i love the word to use political theater because thats what exactly what it is just like before us trade theater thats right we know we know what the outcome is going to be today theres not going to be any surprise and we know what the outcome will be one of the ultimate moves of the senate so the markets as youve said have already priced all of this and have a not exactly so its i actually dont understand why we have so much coverage when really its going to be a moot point all of this is just going to be thrown out ultimately thats where it goes so again we know that even as they debate this will ultimately by thursday will have an impeachment and it will go anywhere from there not really market moving is that right. French government and unions are facing up wednesday over the highly controversial Pension Reforms we are now 14 days into a crippling transport strike that has left businesses damaged and commuters frustrated massive numbers of protesters took to the streets a