Stocks are up on the second straight day, we are at session highs in the benchmark, 1. 2 . The latest push is coming from the moves we are seeing from Hong Kong Developers with we will show you the moment Commodity Markets are, the expectation that frontloading and incremental more insurance from bonds, that is to equities right now from his sentiment, the inserted. Comedy markets like iron ore ozzie meme stocks also catching substantial bid. Breaking news these last few minutes coming out, talking out of substantial moves from john lee. Let me recap some of those lines to explain these big moves. Hong kong will cut on purchase taxes by half to 7. 5 . It will also be having the tax residence buying a second home, which is substantial as well miners down there flat then two years without multishortening that period from 32 to two years. Hong kong will also assist and home purchase taxes for arrivals under the new program. We will see if we get new comments from john lee should be starti
Wednesday october 25. Your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Battles abroad and here at home, u. S. Troops stationed in the middle east seen an increase in attacks on their bases as tensions escalate between israel and hamas. A warning to iran from the secretary of state Anthony Blinken saying the u. S. Will defend itself should enter the conflict, what you need to know on a live report coming up. Markets this morning are flat after double beats and technology space, were talking microsoft and google betterthanexpected quarter and were previewing data and amazon also out this week. European markets are mixed. We have some gains this morning in london but weakness in the rest of the eurozone. The fraction of a move to report. In asia overnight markets mostly higher, fractional move across the board, and asian markets. Back in washington, the house chooses the speaker designate in louisiana congressman mike johnson after latenight boat as investigations continue into the biden f
One is going to be a hard one to top. We are looking at the white house, youre also looking at whats going on in gaza right now. The two are linked because the president of the United States and the Prime Minister of australia will be talking to reporters moments from now. This occurring on the same day were learning that u. S. Military advisers have been urging israel to avoid a full scale ground assault in gaza and that this is beginning to impinge on Israeli Military commanders or who do not like being strongarmed that way. This is a story coming out of the wall street journal. Were staying on top of it, as is Edward Lawrence in the rose garden as we seek at what we can expect to hear from the president. Hey, edward. Reporter i was supposed to be in the rose garden, the News Conference has been moved now to 1 15 eastern time, so they would not allow us into the rose garden to do this live shot as of yet, but into the next hour. Were likely to hear questions to the president about th
Old and lacking the energy and mental acuity to do the job of a president. He is old and it shows. Were realizing hamas is a huge problem not just for israel but the whole world what hamas has done has showed the true face and we understand extremists like that is in israel. Is been funding iran as we know by loosening the sanctions and allowing oil exports to increase. He has himself in a lose lose situation. The eyes of the world have been on us instead rightly of the Biden Administration. I think the entire conference can rally behind mike johnson, he is a good man and a good conservative and he will have my vote. Stuart 11 00 oclock eastern time on wednesday october 25. In one hour House Republicans are expected to hold another vote for speaker, mike johnson is the candidate and expected to have a lot of support, does he have the boat i dont know at this point, plenty of red ink, not as bad as it was the dow is down 14point, nasdaq holding onto 180point decline, shall be big tech m
Well. I mean, if you want to give him a report card, a plus. I mean, hes commander in chief. Had. That never stops and the dus and responsibilities are literally global. Maria hes the the commander n chief who never stops moving, hes like the th the energizer. You want to give somebody an a a plus. On the economy, real clear politics average joe biden gets 37 approval. Foreign policy, 38 approval. Inflation, 32 approval. Crime, 36 approval. On ukraine, thats the high point, 42 approve. Overall direction of the country, 24 of people think its going in the right direction. That doesnt sound like straight as to me. John works for joe, he has to say jo joe is doing a great job. When i changed ds to bs on my report card, i went with something my father would believe. A plus . Maria always have the person who is grading you as someone who works for you. Yeah. And you determine that guys success in return are. The one thing i will say, we sort of talked about this earlier, but i think its imp