Right now. Good morning warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Sara eisen is off today. Here are the latest developments on maria the hurricane making landfall overnight on the caribbean island of dominica as a category five storm. It weakened slightly within the past few hours to a category 4 storm. But forecasters warn maria could strengthen as it approaches the Virgin Islands puerto rico is also in the crosshairs well bring you the latest updates on Hurricane Maria as we get them were following a developing story out of Southern California a magnitude 3. 6 earthquake shook parts of los angeles it happened around 11 20 p. M. Local time residents as far away as costa mesa felt the rumble there have been no reports of injury or damage due to the quake. Americas largest toy store is filing for bankruptcy protection toys r us announcing chapter 11 filing late last night. Its one of the largest ever by a specialty retailer the move comes as toys r us looks to relive its 4 4
Rally pause. Futures are flat as investors await further futures from the feds on its interest plans call it the amazon effect. Shares of bed, bath beyond slashes fullyear outlook. The most destructive storm in modern history puerto rico suffering that direct hit from maria. After another day of record highs for stocks, wall street focusing on the fed which wraps up its twoday policy meeting this afternoon the policy Statement Due at 2 00 followed by the News Conference a half hour later. The watch is on to see what the fed will say about reducing its Balance Sheet. This is the head of the journals finance section today and that is markets uneasy over fed action as this treasury slump, jim, is now the longest since march. Yeah, i mean, i think that were all kind of dealing with the idea that the markets, i looked at that headline and i say, if the markets arent easy, why did we hit a high. Dow jones, s p, nasdaq if for once were not beholden to what the fed says i want to know about th
Ties and women rights. It is 8 00 a. M. A cross that emirates, 5 00 a. M. In london. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. It is mid day in hong kong. Many markets across asia are closed at the moments. I am not sure if this is good news or bad news for the markets given that investors will have to go through so much ego. Not only out of the weekend, but those phenomenal trade numbers out of south korea this morning. Open,e markets that are you can open the go function on the bloomberg. The nikkei is now above 19,000. They are gaining momentum given that the yen is reversing earlier gains and losing against the dollar. More of a dollar story given that spending deal and the u. S. Congress. The asx 200 gaining for a seventh consecutive session. The fastest annual growth in prices in almost three years. Brent crude reversing earlier gains down 3 10 of 1 . Treasury yields are rebuilding in asian training. Debt markets are looking a little bit mixed. Some interesting, interesting moves in
Welcome to bbc news. President putin tried to boost Donald Trumps campaign for the presidency according to a report published tonight by Us Intelligence officials. The report was released shortly after intelligence chiefs had briefed mr trump on theirfindings. The President Elect insisted that any Cyber Espionage by russia, china or anyone else had not influenced the result. But hes ordered a plan to be delivered within 90 days of taking office on developing an aggressive reponse to cyberattacks as our correspondent nick bryant reports. American intelligence tonight released its explosive report, claiming that Vladimir Putin personally ordered what it called an influence campaign to help Donald Trumps chances of winning the presidency by denigrating Hillary Clinton and harming her electability. It concludes, the kremlin had a clear preference for the billionaire. Donald trump today described the investigation as a political witch hunt by adversaries badly beaten in the election. He rub
Welcome to bbc news. President putin tried to boost Donald Trumps campaign for the presidency according to a report published tonight by Us Intelligence officials. The report was released shortly after intelligence chiefs had briefed mr trump on theirfindings. The President Elect insisted that any Cyber Espionage by russia, china or anyone else had not influenced the result. But hes ordered a plan to be delivered within 90 days of taking office on developing an aggressive reponse to cyberattacks as our correspondent nick bryant reports. American intelligence tonight released its explosive report, claiming that Vladimir Putin personally ordered what it called an influence campaign to help Donald Trumps chances of winning the presidency by denigrating Hillary Clinton and harming her electability. It concludes, the kremlin had a clear preference for the billionaire. Donald trump today described the investigation as a political witch hunt by adversaries badly beaten in the election. He rub