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It is just past 8 00 a. M. In hong kong and just after 7 00 p. M. In new york. What an hour we just had. The ruling that came out from the Appeals Court essentially olding this ban on this upholding essentially the decision not to enforce this travel ban that was issued by the white house. Of course we saw donald trump on his twitter saying he is going to take this all the way up to the Supreme Court. We were waiting for it. It just took mere minutes after the decision. Quite a setback here for the Trump Administration looks like this will be a lengthy legal battle. Looking a horse looking ahead meeting. Ump, abe dollaryen dominating the market. Hope is that President Trump is in a good mood when he eat when he meets. You news because folks will understand it. Im wondering if it will be as lengthy as we thought. Dollaryen, 113. 50. Gold is cheaper as well. 17 lower compared to this time yesterday. Not much of a reaction when you look at currency markets overall. Dollar index Still Hold
Than trump as it gains a foothold in the Global Energy market. Its 8 00 a. M. Across emirates, 4 00 a. M. In london. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Im in hong kong where it has just gone midday. We are seeing the asia regional benchmark falling for the first time this week. You can see right now a bit of a mixed picture. The nikkei is trading on the downside after we saw that game against the u. S. Dollar although the dollar index is gaining right now against the yuan. The be ok leaving its key Rate Decision unchanged. We also heard from the governor theres a low possibility the u. S. Will name korea a currency manipulator. This is a snapshot of what is happening across markets in asia , but it has more to do with the amongd more uncertainty investors. Especially the terminology. Fairly soon is how they described the possibility of further rate hikes. Lets see how the market is looking at all of this. Very interesting. What youre looking at here is how the market was positioned hikedime
Cars in iowa. Were learning more about the suspected gunman. Good afternoon, im kenny choi. Riego. Two Police Officers shot and killed ambushed while sitting in their police cars in iowa. We are learning more about the suspects gunman. An iowa man is in Police Custody in the shooting deaths of the two officers. The arrest comes after an hours long manhunt. Reporter the manhunt for a suspect in the shooting deaths of two iowa Police Officers is over. 46yearold scott greene was arrested this morning in suburban des moines. The search for greene began not long after two officers were found shot and killed in a their patrol cars overnight. Investigators are calling it an ambush. It doesnt look like there was any interaction. Reporter the first officer was found dead about 1 a. M. Local tyne in urbandale iowa local time. The second one two miles away in des moines 20 minutes later. Both of them were in their cars. Reporter at Daybreak Police named greene a suspect. He was arrested a short t
The officials are warning people of icy roads and disruptions in transportation. Our meteorologist robert speta joins us now with more. This exceptional cold air mass dominating much of northern and central japan. You can see on our satellite picture you have northwesterly winds coming in. That classic seaeffect snowfall. Typically whenever we get an area like that, the mountains of central japan blocks any snow from getting over. Down toward the south we actually had a low coming in and, yes, that brought us our first snowfall since 1962 in november. Quite incredible. Snow in tokyo is rather rare. You only see it about once or twice a year so this early in the winter season is exceptionally unusual. How much is going to be coming down . As we go ahead through the rest of the day, looks like in downtown tokyo an additional 2 centimeters of snowfall is possible accumulating on surfaces that are not warm, car tops and table tops out there. Looks like the heaviest will be back toward the