Scrutiny in the u. S. Now over National Security concerns because its owned by a chinese tech giant. Good morning live from the r. T. Will be sent here in moscow just turned 18 am here now my name is kevin owen here is a 30 minute update thanks for watching 1st of this tuesday it straight to syria where a u. S. Military convoy has been attacked by Turkish Backed militants according to russias ministry of defense seems it came under a tillery fire from the group known as the Free Syrian Army the turn of tell tale in the northeast of the country the pentagon confirmed the attack took place 2 saying that the patrol was on arms are harmed rather it comes amid a partial withdrawal of american troops from Northern Syria and the relocation of some forces to neighboring iraq saw the 1st confrontation between the u. S. And the militants over the past few weeks washingtons envoy to syria claims the f. S. A. Have committed war crimes during turkeys offensive in Northern Syria. Turkish supported.
This is how the social network will wire up the whole world. And how about this . A computer that processes a billion a billion computation, its a very Early Development in america. Varney company is about to begin. First this china has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics beijing will become the first city who host both the summer and the winter games they hosted in the summer of 2008. They narrowly edged out other cities, and boston did not want it in their city. And price of barrel is down. Gas look at this 2. 66 down another penny overnight. Here is the headline triplea says 2 a gallon gas by the winter. Lower in some states. Look who is here. The former president of shell oil. All right, john listen up do not rain on my parade. Do not tell our viewers what you told them six months ago, that gas is going back to 4 a gallon this year. Dont do it. Okay stuart. I know we still have an open bet dont we . Yes, we do we do. So we shall see who collects at the end of the year. S
I am olivia sterns. Coming up on the program, the worlds greatest golfer gary player shares how to perfect your swing as the u. S. Open tees off today. Our top story. Bnps coo is stepping down. Pressuring theen worlds biggest bank to dismiss de courcell. This link to investigations over sentient violations . Bnp is letting him go of his own accord. It was his decision to step down. There has been a lot of indications in the media that u. S. Regulators were calling for his departure. We should be clear. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing. I want to ask you about your sense do you think bnp can afford this if they get cut off from the u. S. Dollar Payment System . It is a lot of money. I do not think it was their intent to force the bank out of business. Spiraling bigger and bigger. Every bank has to pay more than the last one so the regulators can show they are taking a very aggressive approach. Fair, it is not the reason that is up to 10 billion because of the sense that bnp was
In a moment. If we zoom out, the wcld and First Trust Internet etf flat over the last month, chips and software with a bit more of a sustained rally. Pretty remarkable. The words baby steps, john, have been used in the feds long term goal of getting us back to 2. So much guessing on what the fed actually wants and is trying to do happening here and its important i think for us to stay focused on the context. We gave viewers a little bit right there. Amazon is up i think around 13 right now 9 for the week. But look at what these individual stocks and what some of these areas have done not only over the past day or week but over the past month. Over the past quarter. What were earnings like . Now i think the next catalyst perhaps is how the Holiday Season starts with just a couple of weeks away from thanksgiving, from black friday, from cyber monday theres the expectation that Consumer Spending isnt necessarily going to be what its been in past years. That has all kinds of impacts not ju
Trade. Flying stock prices including the ceo of 23 and me on the heels of those results we are going to start with the deal of the day right up our tech check alley applovin announcing a proposal to merge with unity valuing unity at 29 billion or nearly 50 bucks a share i was on yesterday but i was watching you said applovin might be in the market for consolidation have a listen. The type of company i have my eye on, applovin up more than 10 today. 15 billion market cap roughly it is down about 57 year to date you might not tend to think of this as a fintech play but in a way it is because the app ecosystems and how smaller businesses and developers balance between advertising and discovery, appearing in app stores, those are Financial Issues and perhaps investors can think more broadly about the types of companies that are available out there. It is also worth noting iron source is looking to be taken out by unity with some help from what was it, slipping my mind, but private equity i