Competition and illegitimate sanctions but also by creating instability on our borders. And joining us now to discuss this boom bust cohosted investigative journalist bents one whos been following the story now but i want to start with what we know about the poisoning of alexina bali. Yeah we actually dont know a whole lot about it according to reuters there is some information he was traveling apparently between siberia and moscow in august he became violently ill he was an air flight into germany where doctors began to treat him and they say that he was poisoned with some kind of a nerve agent and so the details of exactly how he was poisoned are not known at this time and the fact that russia and specifically certain members of the russian government have been accused by the french of the germans as being responsible for this is a little bit strange because we dont have any details surrounding that having said that it was enough as you just said for the e. U. To say that theyre goin
Im going for the most unwelcome we begin with a pandemic in Europe European Union countries half agreed to a common strategy for restricting travel from coronavirus hotspots e. U. Ministers meeting in luxembourg want of traffic light system showing regions as green orange or red depending on the number of coronavirus cases ministers hope to avoid the kind of confusion that disrupted travel across the e. U. At the height of the initial outbreak earlier this year. Early brussels correspondent bob but ive easily explained in more detail how those traffic lights system is expected to work countries are not trying is. The same data used the same criteria to determine whether you can travel from point a. To point b. For instance germany has a travel warning against belgium where i am at the moment but france does not have a travel warning against or for belgium so why is that because they sort of set the point where the think a country is dangerous at Different Levels now that is supposed to
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Haslinda we want to show off u. S. Live pictures. Mike pomp
These critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexei no bawly a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Authorities no bawly is in germany and is now recovering this week e. U. Foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on russian officials fish tales and organizations blame for the poisoning these sanctions according to Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov are not surprising and could lead to further economic strains between the 2. The question is not just whether business as usual is possible but with the any business with the European Union is possible a tool the e. U. Behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down with russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we
Well also hear from thom tillis, rick gates and arkansas senator tom cotton. Markets this morning look like this. Futures indicating this morning a decline at the start of trading. The dow industrials down right now 276 points, the nasdaq down almost 201, as you see, and the s p lower by 38. Markets finished near session lows wednesday on fading stimulus hopes of. Earnings season meanwhile rolling on. This morning we hear from walgreens, Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab among others. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. The nfl is back in business, you can watch the biggest games on fox, fox nfl lead analyst and three time hall of Famer Troy Aikman is here previewing whats next for the super bowl and beyond. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this. Weve got a negative showing there as well. The fq100 down 133, the cac down 107 and dax index lower by 363. This as we learned covid cases in europe have surpassed those in t