Im nowjoined by our North America Business correspondent ritika gupta. What is it that markets make of what they are saying . They are nervous because they dont know whats going to happen next. Yes. The mood of nervousness. Little change now but losses off the back of those Middle East tensions. There is a dent to risk appetite. Markets dont like Uncertainty And Risk now is can this respondent is this going to blow into wider war. One of the sectors that is bucking the trend and going higher Todays Energy stocks and that is off the back of oil as you mentioned. It was up as much as 3 today and continuing again from yesterday over Supply Disruption concerns. Yesterday we saw some of those Safe Haven assets like gold, we are seeing some of Varese Today but i still think overall there is this wait and see mode and a very risk of town. Is this Waitandsee Mode and a very risk of town. Very risk of town. There is one thing they very risk of town. There is one thing they are very risk of town
former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. rishi sunak has ordered an inquiry into the tax affairs of nadhim zahawi, the man he appointed as chair of the conservative party. the ethics adviser sir laurie magnus, a former investment banker, has been asked to get to the bottom of everything , following reports mr zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes to hmrc. it is quite the turn around. on wednesday the prime minister told the commons there was nothing further to investigate. mr speaker, my honourable friend has already addressed this matter in full, and there is nothing more i can add. but there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. number 10 says, it was only this weekend the prime minister became aware of penalties mr zahawi had paid to the tax office, while serving as chancellor. in that role, mr zahawi was nominally, overseeing the work of the tax office. a complicating factor. integrity and accountability is rea
quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
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