The last 20 minutes or so. Nasdaq is down 33 and 3 quarters. Now these numbers coming after signs of the spread to have virus stabilized in hot spots. That led to strong rally yesterday. Here at the close yesterday, the dow gaining and s p entering bull market. U. S. Death toll topping 14,080 but there are signs that the spread is slowing in hot spots. The cdc issued guidelines to get to workers. The Trump Administration requesting 250 billion, democrats want additional 50 billion. Fed chair jay powell will be giving us an update on the economy and actions taken to combat the impact of the virus, thats today 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. More to expect from the fed. The today is a big day for oil. We are watching the contract right now. Its up almost 5 and a half percent. The investors are watching the opec meeting including saudi arabia and russia, can they come to an agreement . All rising on hopes of a deal to cut production and bring an end to the costly priced war. And then there was
Reporter yeah, deirdre this could be the biggest trade agreement of alltime, possibly. We have to look at the numbers here. The u. S. Touting some real structural changes in china, saying also that this agreement will be signed on paper and signed the first week of january now the chinese are saying this covers some very big items, really big sections, including protecting intellectual property , increasing those protections, those deals of the force transfer of property, ending that, opening Market Access for Financial Services firms, and china agrees to stop manipulating its currency. The president also says chinas agreed to buy a lot more agriculture from the u. S. But would not put that number in writing. President trump i think they will hit 50 billion in agriculture, much more because its also manufacturing and other but i think in agriculture they will hit 50 billion. They were already buying, even before the deal is signed, theyre buying. Reporter and as Senior Administration o
Kindness and empathy arc watchers but tragically sometimes it seems that we also have an almost primal instinct towards selfdestruction or at the very least we can be pretty cavalier with our own safety both personally and mouse from the kid on the escalator acting the fool to our National Leaders and their strange pingers on the bottom of the bottom. Today we are going to start this party my friends with a bang a nuclear bang in the form of a New Princeton based video simulation currently making the rounds on social media but proves there was no such thing as a limited small Tactical Nuclear war called plan aids researchers at Princeton University science and Global Security lab created the form of the animation to show the potentially catastrophic consequences of current u. S. And Russian Nuclear war plans according to the researchers the simulation is based on an actual independent assessments of current u. S. And Russian Force postures and Nuclear Weapon targets in total after all
Publishing an excerpt from a forthcoming book about the alleged Sexual Misconduct at the u. S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh the being important details of this. One minute past 6 am in houston 9 pm in melbourne and 2 in the afternoon right here in moscow this wednesday september the 18th welcome to our international. With more than 60 percent of the vote counted the fate of israels Prime Minister in the balance this afternoon polls suggest hes neck and neck with his nearest rival after repeat parliamentary elections Binyamin Netanyahu even with allies included currently does not have enough seats to secure a majority government the same goes for his rival benny gantz 2 earlier kevin owen discussed all the developments with the dollar. This vote was largely viewed not as a general election but as a vote of confidence for netanyahu and mind that not for his party but for him personally and that is important because the whole the reason why these elections happened is because net
A plus for publishing an excerpt from a forthcoming. U. S. Supreme court judge. Leaving important details. Around the clock across the world this is r. T. International from the team myself you know a low unwelcome. Our top story saudi arabia is no claim the other run was involved in this weekends attack on the kingdoms Oil Refineries anough the attack was not conducted from yemen in the site but rather came from the north according to them the countrys Defense Ministry a juror in a press conference in riyadh over the past 19 minutes or so. Is live on the program hes been following developments from press conference on the back drawing to it caleb what evidence indeed did saudi arabia put forward to support the accusations well at the press conference we heard from the ministry of defense of saudi arabia they said that sense saturdays attack they have looked into the matter done a thorough investigation and come to some pretty definite conclusions heres what they said. The attack did n