Stuck in a slump. The winning streak comes to an end. More pain from protests in hong kong. Retail sales and Hotel Occupancy tumbled more than 40 . Check lets get a quick of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures gaining a quarter percent but this of course after we see all saw the s p 500 fall the most in a month. Every session was in the red. Week manufacturing number this morning. Industrials let the declines, not to mention we had banks under pressure as was our rates move lower towards the 1. 6 for the 10 year yield. Volatility was also pronounced. We saw the vix headed towards the 20 level. It is known for price swings. It could be one of the most volatile months of the year. Lets see how things are shaping up for asia. Selina asian stocks look to be pressured by the weak manufacturing data after the u. S. Reported which of course follows very weak did any Manufacturing Sector we have seen across europe as well as in china, japan and south korea. Take a look at the futures. Loo
Bullard, a fed governor, who wants a 50 basis point cut in rates in the next fed meeting which is this month. Also helping, treasury yields as of now, not inverted. The dow industrials are going to be up over 200 points, probably erasing all of yesterdays loss. The s p up just short of 1 . The nasdaq up a full 1 . Going up at the opening bell. Now to britain. Boris johnson lost the vote on britain crashing out of the European Union. There may now be a general election and brexit may be delayed until next year. That means a trade deal with america is not coming any time soon. Now this. Winston churchills grandson, a conservative, voted against boris. Hes been expelled from the conservative party which was the party of his grandfather, winston churchill. The chaos continues. This news just breaking. Google has been fined 170 million for illegally collecting information on children, parents were not aware of that collection of information. Separately, a group of state attorneys general wi
On the heroics of ben stokes after that historic innings at headingley yesterday. And coming up at half nine, weather world rounds up the planets recent and most significant meteorological events. A new plan to tackle huge wildfires in the amazon rainforest is expected to be agreed at the g7 summit of World Leaders today. Brazilian warplanes have already been dumping water on the burning woodland. This morning, borisjohnson has pledged £10 million in funding to help replace lost trees. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. The fires raging across the amazon in recent weeks have been devastating notjust for those who live there, but also potentially for the global environment. For president macron of france, they are a crisis the g7 was designed to fix a Common Threat that requires collective action by the worlds major economies. So today, he and other leaders will discuss and potentially agree a new plan to help countries first with the fires, and then subsequent reforest
U. S. Senate. Sundays at 9 00 eastern and pacific on cspan. Continues. Oft we welcome the ceo you say you are an optimist when it comes to the future of conservation and climate. Is it hard to be an optimist in todays world . Guest great to be here. It is sometimes hard to be an optimist, but a pessimist i dont think ever got anything done. You have to think that the world could be better tomorrow. I just had a baby girl, six weeks old. Host congratulations. Myst a little unexpected at age, but when you look at this kid, you really feel like you cant help but feel a great sense of hope. Host you think most environmentalists are optimists right now . Guest no, i dont think so. I think todays current drive in environmentalism is really out of a sense of real despair. It, particularly young people, because those young people will have to deal with the worst. The opportunities for doing something about it are rapidly shrinking. Folks from my generation still remember the natural world, sti
Top tens of thousands of people have been killed in the civil war and millions are starving the u. N. Is called it the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. Still ahead of aljazeera sending in the troops brazil promises to deal with record fires in the Amazon Global concerns grow. Taking the fight to the kidnappers nigerias crime crisis where even traveling on trains isnt safe. Hello again its good to have you back where across all of our we have seen a lot of a clear skies to the south but we have seen some storms up here towards turkey making their way towards the east so around the black sea particular across the eastern part of the black sea we will continue to see more heavy rain showers over the next few days well be watching this very carefully temperatures are up though here across parts of syria were going to be seeing aleppo about 39. 00 degrees on sunday maybe dropping down to about 30 degrees by the time we get towards monday well here across the gulf it has been very very stea