Aljazeera. Is affecting the campaign. For. That spring as a story all right and that is. Our. Actual. Triggering. Hello im Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post among the stories were covering this week its an Election Year in america and the battle for the democratic nomination has Bernie Sanders and the Corporate News media at odds freedom of speech has returned to angola and the satirists have the knives out for the political establishment a tit for tat diplomatic spat between beijing and washington has american and chinese news outlets caught in the middle plus a strange idea the wildfires the Climate Crisis need to revisit to resume industry and speaking strewth to power were in the early days of u. S. Election season and the battle for the right to take on donald trump has the makings of a 2 horse race on the Progressive Side of the Democratic Party vermont senator Bernie Sanders currently polling at around 30 percent to his right former new york city mayor Michael Bloo
We will look at the reports across the Global Supply chain. Hsbc puts 35,000 jobs on the chopping block. We will find out what the bank is doing to graphs to grapple with the outbreak. Today, you had a drop in the major averages like the s p 500. The chipmakers getting hit the hardest. This is an art this is after apple of course said they would miss quarterly revenue numbers. Means is a flight to quality, you are now down about 23 basis points or so, very curious. Where they think value is for the 10 year. As around day 180 or so. Yield on the long end, that threemonth 10 year now inverted. The most inverted we have seen it since the beginning of the month. A fairlyis going to be busy day in this part of the world. His hollande new zealand trading already. Futures looking flat in australia as well. Metals, one of the big iron ore minors is reporting earnings. Also crown casino. Gold is priced in gold priced in australian dollars is a record. Currencies, the u. S. Dollar performing fai
Low for might as well, but the pboc not adding actual liquidity saying things are reasonably apple when it comes to liquidity conditions at the moment. I suppose the big question is will any of this be transmitted given that we know so many still out of the economy, essentially either stuck at home or factories still still, supply chain massively dislocated. Sarah we have seen markets across the asiapacific region turning higher. We continue to see resiliency, at least on the mainland and in hong kong. The hong kong hang seng up about. 5 , and in japan, we have seen markets turn higher as well, holding onto those gains, up about. 6 . The one that is moving to the downside bucking the trend is the south korean cosby after the country did report about 10 new coronavirus cases. You see it falling to a twoweek low, down about. 25 at the moment. Lets take a look at some other risks in the currency and commodities space. We did see copper moving higher for an eighth day and 11. Gold, though,
Johnson threatens a general election road map begins with new tariffs on chinese goods hitting over the weekend. No talks between the u. S. And china in sight. Hurricane dorian battering the bahamas as coastal u. S. Braces for the worst and a longer wait for boeings max, could friction between the company and air safety authorities threaten a new delay for that fleet futures, though, slipping after the new tariffs on roughly 110 billion in chinese imports went into effect on sunday. The 15 u. S. Duty hits consumer goods rafrning fr s ranking fro apparel. Reports say that getting some parameters for new talks is proving to be difficult. Exactly i think that if you want to look at the bright side of that, the preopen this morning says there was no real hope for averting the tariffs. It is not as if you have a deal being handicaps now in terms of what the market is expecting on the other hand, bond yields still at their lows, not giving much of a sense that were through this period of jus
tonight at ten: the head of the metropolitan police says she won t resign over the force s handling of last night s vigil in memory of sarah everard. there will be an independent review of police tactics, which the met commissioner cressida dick says she welcomes.. they have to make these really difficult calls, and i don t think anybody should be sitting back in an armchair and saying, well, that was done badly, or i would ve done it differently, without actually understanding what was going through their minds. police have been accused of manhandling protestors who say they just wanted to pay their respects. as i was sat in the van, as my hands were handcuffed, i wasjust thinking, gosh, all i wanted was to stand with other women. tomorrow, mps are due to debate a bill giving the police wider powers in dealing with public gatherings and demonstrations. also tonight: nazanin zaghari ratcliffe appears in court in iran on new charges, having just served a five year senten