Monitoring a speech from the Hezbollah Leader, Hassan Nazrallah, giving his first public response to two days of attacks in lebanon using sabotaged Communication Devices. The number of people killed has risen to 37, with over 3,000 wounded. The Hezbollah Leader accused israel of being behind the operation, which he said crossed a red line. Oi or humanely with me is ou or. Humanely r security with me is our Security Correspondent frank gardner. Some of what he says is true, some of what he says is true, some is not. They are in real trouble, they are trashed, they in real some is not. They are in real trouble, they are trashed, they are in no position to fight a are in no position to fight a war right now, other than the war right now, other than the low Level Exchange of fire they low Level Exchange of fire they are doing across the border. Are doing across the border. But where i think he is right but where i think he is right is when he says bring it on, we is when he it on, we welco
Thought to be controlled by the Peoples Liberation army. And policymakers seem less likely to go down that route decide besides providing support for a long time. Shery lets take a look at how we are setting up an asian markets. Looks like trending a bit lower in sydney. U. S. Stocks really doing pretty taking overrallies adding to concerns about tougher lockdown measures with the existence of an effective vaccine. Downside about a quarter of 1 and that market along with new zealand looking pretty overheated after the recent run of gains. Continuing to push back expectations for negative rates. Chicago futures moderately positive at the moment. The yen seeing a little bit of a gain but we have seen a new daily record for Coronavirus Infections in japan this week. Authorities hinting they could need to take stronger measures to halt the increase in the spread. S p acted futures up by. 2 sessione active cash sank as much as 1. 5 overnight. Shery lets turn to our top story President Trump
From the hospital as soon as today despite conflicting reports from doctors on his treatment and health. Markets recover from fridays riskoff term. France reportedly plans to shut down bars in the paris region as part of new coronavirus measures to be announced today. They warned of a tough winter ahead but equity futures shake off europes spike in infections. Agman Fertilizer Company k s is in advanced talks to sell its morton salt unit to kister group for 3 billion as they propose a review of its indexes including increasing the size of the dax to 40 from 30 companies. Away, just under an hour 60 minutes away, from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning. We are seeing green arrows across the board with dax. 75 , and ftse futures gaining almost 1 this morning. If you look at the percent mispriced, we see gains of more than. 5 indicated at the open. Take a look at the u. S. , futures pointing slightly higher this morning, not 1 gains, but m
It is the big heavy weights adding weight to the downside. We are seeing apple down, alphabet down. 1. 44 ,xx 600 down by less heavy on tech. Yesterday higher. The cable rate also under pressure. Pressure on Boris Johnson right now as he prepares walk away potentially from an international treaty. The other thing worth bearing in mind is the financials are under pressure. We put the german 30 year in there. The curve flattening quite significantly today, and that is having an impact into those financials. Alix yes indeed. Also, watch aerospace. Boeing is apparently slowing streamliner deliveries to inspect a new factory flaw. That stock off by about 5 . If investors are positive on europe, it tends to lead with the European Recovery Fund and germany lifting the debt break. Germany has said it needs to take on significant in 2021, according to finance minister olaf scholz. He sat down with Francine Lacqua for an exclusive conversation. Olaf we will find a solution, and anyone knows that
From moscow thanks for joining us today on r. T. International welcome to the program. A top Level Exchange of accusations and rebuffs is raising the stakes over the sudden and so far unexplained illness of prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny government spokesman to meet the press corps 5 dismissed all allegations of russian state involvement in the case as unacceptable absurd in their very nature it is just the latest retaught saw and trade statements but im correspondent joins us live now with more peter thanks for joining us now ever since this saga started. Calls. Should the russian gas to Europe Nordstrom to do you think the 2 are connected in any way. Well the German Government press briefing the lunchtime press briefing wrapped up on monday peppered with questions about north stream 2 i think just about every other question made reference to the Multi National Infrastructure Project the message coming out of the German Government is that as it stands at the moment north