California utility pg e said to be close to finalizing terms for a 13. 5 billion dollar payout to victims of wildfires sparked by defective equipment. Youre told it would pay half in cash and the rest in stock in the reorganized company, although no final agreements have been reached. Pg e shares rallied strongly on the news but are still down more than 50 this year. The owners of the new york mets are in talks to sell up to 80 of the major league franchise. Were told a deal would be valued at 2. 6 billion and set a path for billionaire steve cohen to take complete control after five years. Hes already an investor in the mets and has a net worth of more than 9 billion. Shery markets open in tokyo and seoul at the top of the hour. Sophie stocks are set to rebound after closing at a low. U. S. Futures little changed. Checking in on the end, Holding Steady while weakening to a twoweek low yesterday, snapping a fourday advance. They opened lower but could gain a 30year option come and. Whe
Legislation, equivalent to 4 of gdp. Set to pricesis mammoth ipo at the top of the range and should raise more than 25 billion. We get you started with breaking news out of south korea. We have the current account surplus coming in at 7. 8 billion dollars. This would be the surplus widening from the previous month of september. Also the previous month was revised higher to 7. 7 billion. Andgoods trade surplus narrowing a little bit us the number coming in at 7. 8 billion, also down from the previous month of 8. 8 billion. Despite the fact we have a current account surplus widening this time around, we have not seen the south korean economy under pressure. Novemberports for both and october contracting more than 14 , but we also had imports plunging, doubledigit digit declines for imports in. He past two months haidi weve got breaking news when it comes to this part of the world as well. We were expecting announcements from the argument terms of how much the big tanks will have to hold
Iranian president Iranian Foreign minister should be granted visas he had something very different to say he said let them come they should be granted visas the fact that they now have been granted these visas just underscores again where the trumpet ministration seems to repeatedly be sending mixed signals about the posture towards a rod given the fact that on the one hand they are vacillating saying that they are locked and loaded ready for some sort of military response and at the same time still leaving open the possibility for dialogue in the future thank you for i can get my forests the white house. Now theres been concern that the attack on the Saudi Oil Facilities could hamper Global Oil Production joshua young is chief Investment Officer and cofounder of bison interest which is an oil and Gas Investment firm he says its unreasonable on realistic to think that iran coal the Saudi Oil Company will be able to bring back its Oil Processing to normal levels in the time it expects t
Everybody cheers and applause also on tonights show, donald trump breaks out his sharpie again. Ronny chieng finds robots in a bar, and Justin Trudeau has a very dark past. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with president trumps trip to the west coast. Yesterday, the president popped into california to host some fundraisers, talk about housing issues and stock up on edibles. Easily the high light of his trip was getting to visit his favorite child the border wall. President trump took time from a fundraising trip to visit a chunk of bored wall in alta messa, california. He met with construction workers and was invited to sign the wall, which he did, with a sharpie. He boasted about the wall calling it the rolls royce of border barriers. Its designed to absorb heat, so its extremely hot. The wall, you wont be able to touch it. So if they climb it they will have to bring hoses and waters and we dont know where water is. You cant cut it with a blow torch. This wall ca
Yeah, you can still see it. What . [ chuckles ] my litcoin was only worth 65 bucks, but, uh, i found a real good use for it. Oh, my god. No. No, you didnt. Its comet 67p, in chicago. I told you hed recognize it on sight. 2. 5 miles wide. Hurtling through space at 84,000 miles per hour. Nothing can stop it. It reminds me of me. It makes me feel small. It makes me want to visit the universe. Thats why i will, i will praise his name every time i get a chance i will praise his name mmm, mmm praise his holy name iii was born on the south side south side from comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show, everybody thank you so much for tuning in thank you for coming out lets do it my name is trevor noah. Our guest tonight is the man behind one of the most famous leaks of government secrets in history, Edward Snowden is joining us on the show, everybody cheers and applause also on tonights sh