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A reaction that could further destabilize the global economy. And huawei vows to continue its campaign against u. S. Restrictions on tech. We will be hearing from the security chief a little bit later on this hour. Shery lets get you started with a quick check and how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures are down a 10th of 1 . We saw a fade in u. S. Stocks, giving up their gains after President Trump announced the executive order targeting social Media Companies. This coming at a time when u. S. China trade tensions continue to rise. We are seeing tensions over hong kong. The s p 500 fell for the first time in four days, and recent out performers, like bank and energy stocks, fell 4. 6 . Twitter falling almost 5 . We did get encouraging news with betterthanexpected economic data. Continuing jobless claims and capital goods orders providing some support. It is looking like we are shaping up to be a mixed start to trading here in asia. We are seeing for japanese futures, a little chang
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Today, francine. After the three day weekend here in the united states, what i really suggest is the testing of how we get back to normal. The markets decided with futures higher. Francine we will have plenty more on the market shortly, but now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news from new york city. Ritika good morning, in france hasn hong kong, carrie lam defended the sweeping new security laws. She says it is untrue that the legislation would ban street protests. She promised Hong Kong Freedom would be preserved. Prodemocracy groups are planning another major rally tomorrow. President trump is vowing to move the Republican Convention out of North Carolina unless crowds are allowed. Statesa shot at the democratic governor, roy cooper. The president says he wants to be assured that republicans can gather in charlotte in august, whether there are coronavirus outbreaks or not. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing another day of pressure to discipline his top adviser.
The watchdog found also that the fbi misled the fisa court by suppressing information about how farfetched the antitrump steele dossier was. How the Clinton Campaign got it and likely leaked it. How fusion gps paid Christopher Steele to talk about it and discuss it with the media and much much more. Lets take you to impeachment. More fireworks at the house judiciary hearing today. The media now says the democrat case not ready. Democrats are quote rushing into failure as now house judiciary chair jerry nadler joins pelosi and schiff saying President Trump must be impeached or the 2020 election will be undermined. And more credibility problems. We found yet another democrat key expert, mentioned about 20 times in the impeachment report, he said that trump should be impeached. He said that on Inauguration Day. We have more republicans now saying two thirds of the house judiciary democrats had already voted to move forward on impeachment even before nancy pelosi announced the inquiry. Nan