Just turned seven leaving here moscow my name is kevin owen live from r. T. H. Q. Hope youll stay with me for next thirty minutes with a news update starting with this russian president s annual q. And a from earlier this thursday big news here today but putin fielded four hours of nonstop questions and very diverse questions there were two from the press. He was listening in the things that particularly stude out for me this time is that the share of questions that you might want to call challenging for White America about corruption about the silencing of political opponents in russia was perhaps a bit larger this time then previously he was indeed grilled about the lack of competition in russian politics and one question came from perhaps his direct opponent a person who wants to become a president ial candidate in russia in twenty subject thats a major issue for those who want to represent that. System opposition they have to offer not a short lived and shrill agenda but a real one
First time in 35 years. We begin in the united case with Democrat Doug Jones this week delivering a stunning upset by defeating roy moore in alabama. It trims the Senate Majority for the republicans to just one. And we by two guests discussed the election moments after the results came in. He isporters were supposed to come out and address his supporters right now. The republican majority in the senate is down to one vote, that is the number of votes republicans can lose in their hopes of passing major legislative reform on a host of issues such as the infrastructure, regulatory policies and amending doddfrank. With tax reform coming, this is the bottom line. Doug jones will likely take office sometime the week after christmas and before january 3. Tomorrow President Trump will meet with a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers from the house and to finalize the details of the tax reform package. If republicans want to get this done by the end of the year they have to do it before doug jones ge
First time in 35 years. We start in the United States, where doug jones this week delivered a stunning upset by beating republican roy moore in alabama. That since the Republican Senate majority to just one. We were joined moments after the results came in. The roy moore campaign, his supporters we are hearing he will come out and address his supporters any moment now. But the republican majority in the senate is razor thin, down to one vote, the number of votes. Epublican can lose issues,e hoste of that is the only vote they can lose. With tax reform coming, this is doug jones will likely take office a week after christmas and before january 3. Tomorrow President Trump will meet on a Bipartisan Group of of lawmakers on the Conference Committee to finalize the details of the tax reform package. If republicans want to get this done by the end of the year, they have to do it before doug jones gets up to washington, d. C. Because of that razor thin majority. Republicans arent unified on t
We start in the United States, with a Democrat Doug Jones this week delivered a stunning upset by beating republican roy moore in alabama. That since the Republican Senate majority to just one. Kevin cirilli joint to myself as the results came in. We are hearing he will come out and address his supporters any moment now. But the republican majority in the senate is razor thin, down to one vote, the number of votes republican can lose. There are host of issues, that is the only vote they can lose. With tax reform coming, this is the bottom line. Doug jones will likely take office sometime the week after christmas and before january 3. Tomorrow, President Trump is going to meet with a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers from the house and the senate on the Conference Committee to finalize the details of the tax reform package. If republicans want to get this done by the end of the year, they have to do it before doug jones gets up to washington, d. C. Because of that razor thin majority now is
This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Im yousef gamal eldin. What a week we have had off the back of the fed decision, and a dozen Central Banks around the world. Here is how the u. S. Equity session closed off. The s p index, dow jones, nasdaq. This is on optimism about the proposed u. S. Tax overhaul. Theres also a lot more volatility, 74 higher volumes than the daily average. Theres another event feeding into this, quadruple switching. It happens every quarter, futures and options on indices and individual shares. Then the bloomberg dollar index, a story of a stronger dollar, up. 4 , a major move, a fresh session highend the fifth day of gains. The u. S. Dollar gaining compared to all of its peers save for the kiwi dollar, which led weekly gains. Lets crossover in show you the other key Asset Classes, relatively. U. S. 10 year uninspiring. Gold, up. 3 . But look, the reality is you have traders dumping bullish bets at the fastest pace in five months. Do people care about the dollar