A welfare reform expert. And rex it is say the u. K. Should push ahead with trade talks and cut ties with the e. U. In december despite the ongoing virus crisis. Good afternoon we start with our breaking news story that archie host and former 1st minister of scotland alex salmond has been acquitted of all 14 sexual offense charges on 2 u. K. Casar joins me now with the latest. On their research so take us through the verdict. Well alex salmond has been cleared up for a 2 week trial at the high court in edinburgh now mr summit was originally charged with 14 sexual offenses against 9 women midway through the trial the prosecution could do one of the cases one of those charges that he was found not guilty of 12 others and it a unique situation under scotts issue albeit with the 14th charge he was found with the case was found at have been not true then so mr samad innocent in the eyes of the law and all 14 of those charges now before a court in edinburgh to around 6 hours to make its deci
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Peter your new book is called hidden in plain sight. You remember the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the cause of the 2,072,008 financial crisis not only democrats but also from the republican appointees what did you see that they didnt . The housing system in the United States fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before a lot of background of what has been happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac what role they couldve played in the housing crisis and i found the commission was not interested in that. They would not look at it to the degree that i tried to interest them and given all kinds of signals that is not something they would do but my differences with the republicans came from the fact that my view our responsibility on the commission was to make sure the American People understood what happened in the crisis and i was outside the partisan differences between the repu
Information is incorporated there. Im keeping an eye on relationships between stocks and bonds. Bonds have vastly outperformed you can see the chart in the bond mark ket index. A lot of chatter about how Pension Funds will have to rebalance out of bonds into stocks to keep ratings consistent whether yesterday was a front running of that activity or whether by the way individuals may now use it as an occasion to say my allocation is out of whack because stocks are smaller, that is something we can watch perhaps play out on over the next few days mike santoly, thank you that sets us up well for our first discussion, market panel of the day well start with market action, another volatile trading session so far good morning andrew, ill start with you, how are you advising clients right now . Especially given the fact we are coming off the dow having the best day in 80 years, but historically weve seen these moves on a singlef day basis in the midst of recessions or bear markets. Great ques
Rescue, is it really going to do very much about the problem . Futures pricing in the fed rate cuts at three for the rest of the year but of course this as more governments are taking action and coming to the rescue with fiscal measures. Speaking nowr abe saying japan will take bold measures if needed. He is also saying he will soon announce policies tackling school closures. Schools are in hong kong and now japan will follow suit from march 2. Let us get a quick check of the markets. Equity markets are giving into the rest of the global selloff. The cfx 300 is often the low of the day. But still down by more than 1 . The hong kong hang seng also testing the of trend that had been in place since august. Japanese equities bearing the brunt of the selling. In a correction position. Off by more than 3 just today. As np futures are rebounding just a bit. Up about 0. 5 after the worst day since 2011 and a decline of more than 4 . I want to take a look at some of the risk propositions. Repre