Buckingham palace. Is cancer free, this as reports show cancer deaths are dropping sharply well tell you why. The brilliant mind behind the graduate, get smart, and saturday night live, the great buck henry early today starts right now good to be with you. United states and iran appear to be backing down from the brink of war. Iran appears to be standing down which is good for all. After last night President Trump reported no americans were harmed in the aing at that and only minimal damage was discovered at the military bases. Tracy, the president is facing a lot of criticism over the initial air strike decision to kill general soleimani exactly, phil, but now, were hearing from lawmakers who are questioning whether or not there was sufficient intelligence behind that decision the president in his address to the nation said there were no k5sh casualties, there was minimal damage and his response was there will not be a powerful military response instead economic sanctions on iran lawm
Air bases in iraq the price of gold in the japanese yen also rose on the news as investors sought safe havens amid the growing tension in the middle east reports of the attacks and speculation about a possible u. S. Retaliation also said shares across asia down in early trading although they have made some recoveries sense. Lets go to our financial correspondent now in frankfurt chelsea to lanie chelsea how seriously are markets taking these attacks. Theres been a bit of whiplash this morning across Global Markets the initial reaction to this news was a pretty dramatic spike downward for Global Equities and a big jump in oil oil was up about 5 percent at the end and then point out of this news that investors have really been reassessing the risk over the past several hours and thats due in part to some tweets that worse than overnight from from President Trump where he said all its good all is well and theyre going to do more reassessments but at this point it doesnt appear that there
That statement. Iranian leaders, they have made statements. They have largely avoided the bellicose language we have seen in the past. Overnight, leader ali khamenei says it was a slap in the face to america. They say they do not seek escalation or war. Obvious question this morning, was the attack deliberately proportionate, a oneoff that makes a point but doesnt risk a devastating american response . Can the iranians risk taking action that results in allout war . Their economy is collapsing. They are out of cash. What will the president say this morning and how will he say it . Escalation . A threatening tone . We will find out soon. Now look at this. Yet again, the market is largely shrugging off an attack in the middle east, in the middle of the oil patch, no less. When the news broke, futures showed a near 400point drop but look at it now. Down maybe 20 for the dow and all of that loss accounted for by just two dow stocks which we will mention momentarily. The s p is going to go
Which is a good thing for all parties concerned, and a very good thing for the world. As we continue to evaluate options and in response to iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian Regime. Neil we have not heard a response as yet from the Iranian Regime in response to the president s remarks. Earlier this morning the response to the attacks that were leveled at this american facility in iraq was that there would be more to come. We go to the cow guy, scott shellady, on the impact of all of that. How do you think this is sorting out thus far . Always risky to come to any conclusions before we know what happened, but what do you think . There still could be, well probably still have some scares. Who is kidding who. I was up every two hours last night checking markets to try to build a picture for myself coming in today. This is dramatic turn around from last night at 10 00 a. M. Central. Its a pressure cooker. We
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