More from the capital by the side as. The size of the governments defeat in sundays primary elections surprised everybody in argentina but it shocked the government of president maurice your machree its taken them 3 days to respond mostly to the subsequent collapse of the argentine peso as against the dollar on monday which lost up to 30 percent of its value and also affected argentine stocks and shares in markets in both wall street and in one of cyrus. Addressed the nation saying he was story for his brusque reaction on monday blaming the voters for voting what he said was the wrong party and not having faith in his policies he said he hadnt slept and he was still reeling from the size of the defeat on sunday among the measures announced an increase in child benefit in pensions an increase in the minimum wage a freeze on wages for 90 freeze on fuel for 90 days and they did in general more measures about to be announced in the course of the next few days this for starters to try to ca
A message that message being we are here and were actually very close and those pictures to the words of the Chinese Ambassador in the u. K. He said that this was the grievous crisis facing hong kong since the british handover in 1907 he also said that he wont china wont allow protesters to bring home kong down into the abbotts and he also said that china is monitoring moves among certain protesters that he equated to terrorism. Ive been speaking to Richard Wright susan defense and security analyst and with the structure he says foreign powers of go to tread a very careful line when intervening in hong kong. Well the u. S. And other external plyers that might happen might have some role such as the british are in a difficult situation in the sense that if they are. Do are too quiet and dont seem to signal any concern than that removes a possible restraint on Chinese Military action or completely conflicts with taliban but if they are to openly tied to the protests look like theyre behi
President trump says talks with china have been good and xi jinping wants to do something. Alibaba beat the highest revenue estimates defying the slowdown with a june sales bonanza and robust demand. Lets get you a quick check of how markets closed that there is a session in the u. S. A very volatile session at 10 trading day. We saw the s p 500 fluctuating 12least 1 in the past sessions. It did manage to end the session higher by. 25 , this coming as we saw quite strong earnings reports from walmart helping investor sentiment. That also being helped by the fact that we got some strong economic data. U. S. Retail sales jumping the most in four months for a fifth consecutive session, consecutive months of gains. Still, there was not enough for the treasury rally to subside. Take a look at treasuries because that rally resumed. We saw the 30year yield now breaking below 2 for the First Time Ever. The 10year yield also at one point falling below 1. 5 , now at a threeyear low. Treasuries f
Ball a virus has spread to a 3rd province in the democratic republic of congo 1st few cases have been confirmed in south doctors say a 24 year old woman and her baby contracted it in Beni North Kivu considered the epicenter of the virus they then travel 700 kilometers by bus to south. Where they tested positive for a bowler mother died on thursday mark omara has more now from nairobi. The 2 new cases a woman and the child other 1st cases in the south kivu province the woman died on tuesday and was subsequently identified positively as a bowler patient now her journey began in beni which is the epicenter of the about her outbreak which started a year ago travel by bus and then by boat travel through 2 densely populated urban centers firstly the city of goma on the north shore of lake has a population of about 2000000 and we 1st saw a bowl of cases there last month and he travelled by boat to the city because of you on the south shores of lake kivu we havent yet seen any of polar cases t
A new name the supertankers sailing up to the iranian flag after its registration was switched from panama as a result or simmons is in gibraltar. Heading towards this renames we registered ship 44. 00 days after she was seized off the coast of gibraltar for Identification Systems still saying grace wong destination the mediterranean. As you can see theres nothing on the flagpole now the problem am flag has been removed apparently iranian flag will eventually arrive and down below theres no signage whatsoever to indicate what name this vessel has it is the adrian daria it was grazed long but no sign of it now and the Navigation Systems all of them indicates that its still grace wong so in terms of maritime law this vessel really has no visible identity i think its going to be easy to believe the media. If they look at the it then midway through friday afternoon came and i looked there was a transmission from the radio system on the bridge here to the Port Authority is asking for permis