That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
The rba signaled for their willingness to ease. And the other big story at this hour lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. An antitrust investigation says they are abusing their dominant status. Check lets get a quick of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures down at the open, extending gains after we saw the regular session seeing a bearish reversal at your after trumps of fire called off negotiations. Already, market have been trading mixed and about flat after the fed chairs cautious tone on the economy, warning that too much support was better than not enough. The s p 500 saw the largest drop in two weeks and fell to session lows after the president ended stimulus talks. The losses were led by discretionary talks. Airlines also tumbled and we saw the nasdaq losing 1. 6 . After the close, we saw that House Democrats released antitrust reforms to curb the power of u. S. Tech giants including amazon and alphabet. We will be watching that space very closely. Doin
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Includes 3 charges a day in which the attorney general decided to serve an indictment against a c. To try and minister the serious crimes of corrupt governance is a heavy and sad day for the israeli public and for me personally. And i later shocked looking Benjamin Netanyahu began his battle to stay in office while indicted or one of one of them tonight we are witnessing an attempted coup against the Prime Minister using false accusation and a systematically tainted and biased investigation. Investigations began in december 26th seen into 3 separate cases case 1000. 00 involves gifts including cigars and champagne worth more than 200000. 00 received and often demanded by netanyahu and his wife sarah from billionaires. And james packer the charge and breach of trust the same charges apply in case 2000 in which newspaper magnate on mosers is alleged to have offered favorable coverage in return for his hampering the activities of a rival but it was case 4000. 00 involving show the main st