The dow industrials up just a few points at the opening bell, 11, maybe, but look at that level. Back to 28,000. Modest small loss, small loss for the s p and also for the nasdaq. So look, everybody, sit back, you are going to watch financial history. History being made in hong kong, too. Sure looks like open rebellion. The street fighting has escalated. Police besieged one of the Main University campuses which they say was being used to make weapons. A Police Officer was hit by an arrow. Ominously, the Peoples Liberation army, chinese troops, in plain clothes, appeared on the streets on saturday. That was taken as a grave warning. Add all this up, it is beijing versus the people of hong kong, communism versus democracy. It is a bloody fight and it is not over. In the United States, the democrats want to remove this president from office because of a phone call. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart okay. Lets talk stock market, shall we . Dow closed in record territory friday, abov
From knife crime londons mayor, sadiq khan, sets out his plan for the School Holidays. Car insurance on the rise average premiums are approaching £800 a year, according to one comparison site. Ill be finding out why, and what you can do about it. And it is since wednesday today, dry start to the week. Will it last that way for the next a0 days or is there actually some rain on the horizon . I will have all of those details here on breakfast. Its monday, the 15th ofjuly. Our top story england have won the mens cricket world cup for the first time in an extraordinary finish to a tense final at lords. The main match ended in a tie, which meant the game went to a super over to decide the winner, and it went down to the very last ball. We all now fully understand what is super over is now. Heres our Sports Correspondent john watson. Englands men, World Champion for the very first time. Proving it on the very first time. Proving it on the biggest stage by the tightest of margins. After seve
Stuart shake it out. Florence and the machine. Okay, lets move on. Good morning, everybody. Its 10 00 eastern. Straight to the money. Look at this on the markets. Weve got the dow industrials now up just over 100 points and nasdaq down 25. Not that much big Time Movement in stock prices this wednesday morning. The 10year treasury yield, we have it at 4. 22 now. The price of oil, 81 per barrel and gas prices by the way are still going up 90, there you have it. Bitcoin, not moving much, 29,059 per coin. Thats the markets on a wednesday morning. Now this, for 40 years, from 1980 to 2020, china was the marvel of the world. It became the workshop of the world. A stellar performer where hundreds of millions were lifted out of abject poverty. That was the mantra, it is deal. Leave us in power and well make you prosperous. That was the deal. It worked. Now its not working and you have to wonder what happens to the deal. The pandemic was the pivot. A long and near total lockdown was imposed and
Once in a while. R] [inaudible] okay. Testing, one, two. And he has written several wonderful books. In harms way about the singing of the indianapolis. Horse soldiers, about the first batch of american troops who went into afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. Soon to be a Motion Picture which we might talk about a little later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company which is about a subject thats been part of my life as well, the vietnam war. So im delighted to have a conversation about that and also about writing tonight. So doug, why dont we start, just sort of with how this idea sort of washed over you in the first place, for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan, which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in the 21st century with vietnam obviously in thevi 20th. I was standing in a a helicopter trying to go to the Pakistani Bo
And later, the weeknd slamming h and m over the controversial sweatshirt and walking away from his designer deal. Now, this morning, the fashion brand is saying sorry. Good day at 9a starts now. Suite home alabama oh yeah, a lot of happy people today. 9 01 on this tuesday, jan january 9th. Congratulations. College football champions. Alabama crimson tide. Is there any question nick say ban at the greatest college coach. No. No question this is the greatest dominance in College Football history. Yeah. Five titles in nine years and loss last year at the end of the game. Lost last year at the end of the game and won this year at the end of the game. Then you put the fact in hes playing in the toughest conference in america and year after year after year the recruiting classes keep coming in and he keeps winng so its complete dominance. Think about half time putting in a true freshman. I mean the call to do that. Right. To be your quarterback. For alabama the spar in the stratosphere were