Rally has fed into crude. Propelled thates price. People look beyond the covid to a look beyond to a returned to normal. Gold pretty much stable appeared bitcoin at record highs. Up about two thirds of 1 . We have a u. S. Dollar index unchanged. Lets have a look at the copper price. Copper advancing. The highest price and a more than six years. It is under president elect joe bidens formal transition. The hope is there will be a move toward a Lower Carbon Energy future. That britain the outlook for its demand. As has what is going on in china up. Joining in all of that. Lets have a look at the transition in more detail as we get over to new york and join Karina Mitchell for the first word news. Introduced biden has his foreignpolicy and Security Experts as he seeks to calm relations with International Friends and foes. The president elect is promising a multilateral approach, reversing the America First tragedy of the Trump Administration. He will prioritize ending damaging executive o
President trump warns he will smash the turkish economy. Hong kong calms down after a long and difficult weekend. Leadership in beijing should meet protesters. Get you across some breaking news out of south korea right now. This is the current account balance for the month of august, and it is coming in, contacting on the july figure. Billion. In july, it was 6. 9 billion. We have seen rather disappointing export numbers out of south korea, but however, the current account remains in surplus after the chart, dipping into deficit back in may last year. It is trending a little down. The trade war is weighing on career. The current account balance for the month of august, 5. 265 william dollars. Chari. 5. 265 billion dollars. Shery the Trump Administration put 28 chinese entities on a new trade blacklist. The s p 500 was down. 5 in the regular session. Major indices ended in the red and they were fluctuating between gains throughout the session but we had energy and Consumer Staples leavi
Conservative president loses big in primary elections. European markets looking a little like that. Well tell you what to watch on the markets today. Living in the lap of luxury at least for a little while well get a peak into some of indias biggest and more extravagent hotels and find out why theyre doing so well. One think tank recommends raising wages and giving workers more holiday to boost productivity so, we want to know what would you prefer . More cash or more time off . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive im just thinking both you cant have both, youve got to choose one let us know, use the hashtag. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in the us where a ban has kicked in barring Government Agencies from buying equipment made by some of chinas biggest tech firms. It comes as president Trumps National security advisor visits london while stressing the us is ready to strike a trade deal with the uk after brexit, he said the involvement of the chinese Telecoms Firm huawei in b
We are about 30 minutes away open in china and in hong kong. But singapore and malaysia have into whatonline really is a pretty lac lack lusr market. Of course, u. S. Markets have been on holiday for the president s day holiday. So a subdued start. The region, pairing the earlier drop with the costly about 7 10 of a percent. And Australian Shares down about 2 10 of a percent. Aussie took a brief dip but they have since rebounded. A lift,ar yen, getting thatd president s comments a march hike isnt off the table. Leading and financials the rise. Quick check on some of the movers today. Toshiba also in the green today on reports that it may begin the for its chip stakes sale this friday. Going onnto whats over in singapore. A percent here. We did have singapore deliver a budget that hopes to keep growth above 2 . We did have the second finance minister speaking to us this budget, telling us the is about having a new direction mediumtermgh that hump. He did note that the oil and gas indust