Is pouring into tenyear treasuries as a safe haven. Trouble, trouble everywhere but treasuries offer a degree of security not found elsewhere, and well pay you interest. You dont get that in europe or japan. Heres another opinion. Surely the Federal Reserve will now lower Interest Rates very soon and very sharply. Ive got another reason for the selloff and its hong kong. Its calm right now but is this the calm before the storm . There are signals that beijing has had enough. Things are coming to a head. Number one, Chinese State media now calls the demonstrators radicals and appears to be whipping up mainland support for a forceful end to the protests. Intervention, they say, is inevitable if the situation worsens. Two, there is video of chinese troops massing at the border. Three, the demonstrators are being told not to move to a different part of the airport. Just a few dozen remain. Four, the chinese accuse Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader mcconnell of inciting chaos. President trum
, 4 master plans of the amur region should be approved, the first of which the mastery of the city of tynda was approved by you in april, and we we are already seeing real results; we have received financing under special treasury loans in the amount of 1 billion 600 million rubles. And these funds today go to preparation for different fiftieth birthdays. Obama, we are modernizing the public road network and repairing social facilities, so thank you for this instruction. It really changes life for the better. As for the master plan for the city of blagoveshchensk , blagoveshchensk is one of the most dynamic. Developing cities. In the far east , we have a population of 246,000 people, and over the course of 10 years, the population of the city has been constantly growing. The rate for the thirteenth year is 110 . In the year we had 223,000 people. As you rightly said, the key advantage in blagoveshchensk is a unique proximity to china russianchinese relations are developing, trade turno
The dax in germany up by. 2. The cac in france is up by a quarter percentage point the ftse is flat crude oil ended down by about 19 cents for the week last week this morning its down another 17 cents to 56. 38. A couple big stories were watching geopolitics. Germans chancellor Angela Merkel said efforts to form a Coalition Government has failed. Merkel has been working for more than a month to work with the, quote, free democrats and the greens after losing ground to a far right party in the september election if a coalition cannot be formed merkel could form a minority government or call for a new election youre looking at the euro down. Big questions about whats going to happen in that country. Also, in Corporate News, Marvell Technology is reportedly nearing a deal to buy chip maker cavium for 6 billion. Its going to create a bigger competitor for chip makers like intel and broadcom it would be comprised of 50 cash and 50 stock valuing cavium at 80 per share. Possible deal was firs
13 points. The nikkei was down. Closed down by a half percentage point. You did see that stocks were higher in china. Hang seng up by 1. 5 then this morning in early trading in europe, take a look things are mixed stocks are slightly low ner germager lower in germany and france. Stocks in italy down by 0. 6 then you have crude oil. Crude Oil Yesterday ended up down back below 58. This morning its up, but still below 58, trading at 57. 57 to the story of the morning the closely watched senate race in alabama, Democrat Doug Jones is the apparent winner there, though republican roy moore is not conceding just yet john harwood joins us from birmingham he has that story. Good morning good morning. This was a very big victory for the Democratic Party first time they won a United States senate race in alabama in 25 years a big defeat for President Trump and his party. Look at the numbers. Twopoint lead for doug jones. Roy moore has not yet conceded he said gods in control were still waiting f
Similar decline for the hang seng shanghai off by 0. 3 then in some early trading that weve seen here in europe, you will see things are higher in most of the markets. Germany is the one counter indicato indicator. The cac is up by a half percentage point stocks are higher in london as well checking out things, the yield on the tenyear, 2. 648 . Yesterday the dollar skidded to a threeyear low after those comments from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, embracing potentially a weaker dollar and it would be good for trade dollar down across the board again this morning the euro at 1. 2413 the yen at 109. 01. Oil at threeyear highs. Whoa. 66. 04 for wti, and brent at 70. 78 a barrel. Lets get to the sttop stories. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin making more comments about the dollar in davos. Saying the administration is not concerned about the level of the dollar in the shortterm at a press conference yesterday he said the weaker dollar is good for the u. S then wilbur ross came on our