This case. I know the facts of h case like the back of my hand, you told me and theres nothing wrong thats been done. Why did you settle . Well, it was very simple. My lawyers told me winning would be very high. The golden partner, hedge fund manager, im wealthy, enough factoids and impress juries and that the cost of the trial would be 15 to 20 million and go for an a couple of years. We would likely see appeals, but let me make it clear. I vented into whats called a no admit, no deny settlement, which prohibits me from commenting on the governments allegations, where theres strength in my defenses. B i believe it speaks for itself and ill leave it at that. Do you worry some will see this settlement and think youre guilty . That you did something wrong because you settled . Theres always that b possibility. But i think you know, you get due process was extraordinarily abusive. This is one of the reasons im sitting here. Id like to prove things for others who are afflict nd the future
Is no plan b. Is daybreak asia coming to you live from bloombergs u. S. And asia headquarters. The week and asia was too short, missing you already. Bit of a jolt to wake up asia, but also centralbank decisions, heads speaking this week. Lets take a look at asia, slow going on this monday morning. X 50. On the nz austria, counting down to the open in sydney, seoul, korea, and tokyo. 43, so couldve be a boost for equities. Slightly higher when it comes tospi 500 futures. Spi 500 futures. We could be seeing equities , a 40 point loss at the open in tokyo, so still looking pretty quiet. Today. Markets closed singapore,in malaysia, indonesia, philippines, and india. Thats right. Looks in thesia early going. We continue to watch headlines ,oming out about takata deciding to file for bankruptcy today in a tokyo district court. Far, no comments from the company, but we will be watching more detailsy and on this bankruptcy. Lets get to first word news. Haslinda south korea has joined nations b
Abigail a record once again. Enough to put both at record highs. The week is young. It is worth noting that the dow is on pace for its sixth weekly gain. Itll be interesting to see whether the record highs continue. The nasdaq is trading lower, confirmation between the s p 500 with the risk on scene that we are seeing in oil. The highest since july 2017. We have a two day chart of oil which shows massive gains. More than 5 . They did pledge to cut production more than previously agreed and nonopec members are saying they also are going to cut production. Some are talking about this as doing whatever it takes for oil. But oppenheimer is saying that 60 a barrel is the new normal for oil. Starks are rising today. Look at the oil and gas index up by 2. 5 percent. The stoxx 600 is down by a quarter of 1 . Biggest weeklyhe gain. A great status. Companies reached overbought levels last week. Energyhest level stocks are overbought for the First Time Since april 2015. That is the best performin
Officially named as his pick for secretary of state. Controversial because some say that tillerson has a waytoocozy relationship with the arab nations who produce oil. Can tillerson strike the right diplomatic balance with the saudis, iran, israel and all of those other nations . A fox business exclusive with the man who might know, the former u. S. Ambassador to saudi arabia, robert jordan. Plus, were on trump tower watch. Take a look at this, the most powerful man in the world meeting with the richest man in the world today, moth cofound microsoft cofounder bill gates taking the golden elevators to the top. President elect is expected, by the way, in this hour to depart for wisconsin for the continuation of his thank you tour. His rally will begin sometime this evening, but he will leave any moment from now so, of course, we have the fox business caravan cam at the ready. Plus, a poor diagnosis for qwest. That stock is on the move and not in a good way. Is it Mission Impossible to sa
This is the second hour of daybreak asia. Yvonne where it is just after 8 00 a. M. Betty im betty liu. As you mentioned at the top, we are waiting for Inflation Numbers coming from china. And a little later, we will get confidence Confidence Index out of australia. We will see how sentiment is there. In the u. S. , we are waiting the of steveion vote mnuchin, the treasury secretary nominated by donald trump. The economy is missing a treasury secretary from that treasury secretary from that department. That is being awaited by the markets here. Y of steve vonne they will have to do quite a bit of catchup. The markets have been waiting. No doubt, we have seen bullishness in the market. Talk about inflation as well. We had south korea, taiwan report inflation figures. One set of deviation. China, maybe we can see some prices rise when the numbers filter through. Lets check the market open here in tokyo. Here is david. David it might come down to pork. We have to talk about pigs later on.