Watching artsy international on rise on a local to welcome to the program. The u. S. Secretary of state mike compare has accused iran of an act of war against saudi arabia following the recent bombing of Saudi Oil Refineries top u. S. Security officials met on thursday to discuss possible military options against tehran which denies any involvement in the attack meanwhile President Trump says he still hoping for a peaceful solution. I mean you may have some very strong here who will see what happens a lot of things could happen if we can have a peaceful solution thats good its possible that that wont happen mike pompei is currently on the middle east tour trying to shore up support for action against iran the u. S. Says it is confident iran was behind saturdays drona missile strikes on Saudi Oil Facilities aunties more against the of looks at what evidence has been presented so far it has been decided that iran did it and that started opinion finding with the result of an investigation
A vicious system of apartheid. Hello im sure without easier life and also coming up forcing him out zimbabwes ruling party prepares to begin the impeachment of Robert Mugabe as the man who may replace him reportedly speaks out. The syrian president Bashar Al Assad makes a flying visit to russia thanking Vladimir Putin for his in his words saving his country. Americas asian allies welcome Donald Trumps move to put north korea back on the terrorism blacklist. Now meanwhile treatment of its range of people has been likened to apartheid in a report by Amnesty International the organization spent two years investigating. The cause of the current range of crisis which has forced hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee across the border to bangladesh the report says that miramar has been seconded gating range of people in a quote an open air prison by confining them to their villages it adds that me a moral authority is a guilty of being openly racist towards the river insurances Rakhine St
Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im Courtney Reagan lets get to the Global Market picture declines yesterday, albeit just slight declines, between 10 basis points and 20 basis points we are still up week to date coming into today, a quarter percent. It looks like well add to that, about 26 points higher on the dow this morning the story of the week has not been equities so much as bonds significant move higher in yields especially in the long end weve seen a steepening of the curve in the last couple of days we did not quite hit 2. 6 on the tenyear yesterday we reached 2. 597 the rise in yields has since abated since the peaks of yesterday. 2. 54 we stand at today significantly higher than fridays close look at the trading action from around the world. Starting in asia a mixed picture in asia. Mainland china did see equities turn in higher at the end of the session. The nikkei was down 0. 3 , as was the cob p kospi was down a half percent. The shanghai log
Bloomberg. As our u. S. S close, and u. K. Markets. A holiday thinned session in asia. Things are decidedly mixed. Of ave not seen much reaction to saber rattling from north korea with that ninth missile test. It is a big week in terms of news flow and data, china pmi, and waiting to see if that feeds into the picture of the growth or thathad from china is as good as were going to get your the second half could look dicey. We had an announcement from the pboc on friday saying they are considering looking at what they call a countercyclical adjustment factor. We are still trying to figure out what that means in terms of the daily yuan fixing. China has been fixing its dollaryuan fix at gradually weaker levels, adjusting from the previous days close. This istion is whether a dollar of fact. It tends to look different when youre looking at the yuan versus the basket of currencies, or is this something reading more into come it that we are seeing a continued weakness when it comes to the y
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