Posts unless emanuel microns government gives in to increased funding demands coming up we hear from one french doctor on the situation. Hospitals have been on strike for several months hospitals and Emergency Services units have been sounding the last the politically nothing has been the problem. Just turned live from our to International News h. Q. Here in moscow is kevin owen with you well welcome to the program 1st that iran has said it made arrests in the case of the accidentally downed ukrainian passenger plane last week in which all 176 people on board or killed. Bateau your motto morbius you are people it is very important in this incident that whoever was at fault or negligent at any level and identify anyone who should be punished must be punished while. The u. S. Is being blamed for flaming tensions in the persian gulf leading to whats been described as collateral deaths thats the assessment of the Russian Foreign minister as he was speaking to the media about the escalating
Best away leaving a lovely wife and family. I want to express my condolences to him. He worked together on prolife issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of and property with the tragic wildfires. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. When i was in sydney, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expects hopes expressed hopes that hong kong will go back to the right path in that is for the right path. Guarantee the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do
Better than estimated. How would you characterize the recent data and the strength of the economy . Win i would say its solid. We had some outliers, but you look at some models, the atlanta fed has growth somewhere around 2. 3 . The new york fed now has some thing around 1. 2 . I expect the truth is somewhere in between. I think we will avoid recession in 2020. Thats what the yield curve is telling us. We went from an extended period of inverted yield last year to positive. I think markets feel pretty good. That said, we have a few hurdles out there. Vonnie iran the and one of them. How do you see this escalating tension, the titfortat impacting markets, particularly currency markets . Win we started the year pretty much popping open champagne, hitting record highs in the equity market, but we got a serious dose of reality. A. Trump has ignited situation in an already quite unstable region. Iran has pledged retaliation. When, what, where, we dont know. That is not just against u. S. It
Index continued gains. The s p down despite several companies doing well today, the best of which is apache, finding success in suriname. The dollar index up 0. 4 . Weaker euro, weaker british pound. Really, the only currency that isnt weaker against the u. S. Dollar is the yen. Stronger, notvens a huge reaction to the continued anticipation of what might come next in the u. S. Iran conflict. Guy lets talk about what is happening in europe. Brent is on offer today, seeing a little bit of weakness when it comes to the oil market. Europe is a little better bid today on a slightly calm her market. At 1. 1141. Vonnie casting doubt on claims there baby powder causes ovarian cancer, talk about this study with Johnson Johnson. Reporter one of the issues with these cases, which claims that talc outer produced by j j talc powder produced by j j gave women touch of cancer is attending to assess what is the Scientific Evidence for whether or not this happened, and this is early hard to do. To try
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