Changed his mind. From there reporting, a little more this morning. Officials said the president initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets. The operation was underway in the early stages when it was called off according to a Senior Administration official. Planes were in the air and ships in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. Reuters is reporting overnight this is what happened according to the headline. Tehran received a message from President Trump warning attacks were imminent. Also from reuters, iran told the United States via the swift ambassador that washington will washington for former had no here is how the president sounded yesterday midday in the oval office before a meeting he had with the canadian Prime Minister on irans bringing down that u. S. Spy drone. Here is how he sounded at this point yesterday. [video clip] when i came here, iran was in 14, 18 different sites of confliction, extremely hostile. They were screamin
Daybreak australia. Im paul allen in sydney. Im annabel ruelas in hong kong. Were counting down to asias major market opens. Good evening from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york. Im ryan. The top stories this hour, us stocks slide into the close on bets an improving economy will keep rates higher for longer. Dollar strength sinking apac currencies to this years lows. China said to mull cutting stamp duty on stock trades as defensive reaction to a surprise rate cut shows president xi facing more tough choices. Plus, decision day for the reserve bank of new zealand with cooler inflation and higher unemployment supporting another hold. Us futures coming online in the Asian Session, were seeing a little bit of a muted picture after stocks fell in new york. We have the drop deepening in the final hour of trading. Investors really trying to digest those stronger than expected retail sales and also more hawkish fed speak. We had financials being weighed down. A warning from fitch that
For the Second Quarter. We can provide hints on whether the bank ofjapan will continue to remain an outlier and keep Interest Rates ultra low. Earlier, High Speed Two fidelity international s Catherine Yeung who said china is facing a confidence problem. It is lack of confidence within the consumption and corporate sector. In fact last friday we had julys money supply and aggregate Financial Data released and it was marginally weaker than expected, so tomorrow in fact we have this operations, and while the expectations are there will be no cuts on the benchmark generally speaking, you could see a slight increase of probability of ten basis points rent cuts, so again policy is going to outgrow chains, but it is going to be this continuing tweaking to accommodate. Tomorrow we will get some extra data out. But really what is the biggest problem facing china to get its economy up and running . If china to get its economy up and runnina . ,. , china to get its economy up and runninu . ,. ,
Have got the fire knocked down, but the fire will go on into the night. They are asking people to avoid the area. And lets look at the air quality. It looks pretty clear. We toss it over to darren. It looks like a pretty nice day, down in the south bay. Oftentimes, it is so fascinating that the rain it is like a barrier at the golden gate. It does not want to pay the toll. Nobody wants to pay that toll. I should have let that one breathe a little more. That was really good. I should so you how this played out today. We are only looking at from 7 00 in the morning to 1 30. Aline a very light rain moved across and it gets down to the golden gate and kind of dissipates, and we did not get anything from it. You to get 1 100 of a bit of rain on mount toga. This is now looking at live radar. We have cleared out from that system. We are done. But if we fill in this picture with the rest of the story, we can already see tomorrows rainmaker right there. This is the one we are going to take thro
In union square today. This was not your up the cal shopping spree. Well explain. And a house fire in san hoe saw that had firefighters warning people to stand back. Details on what was in the yard. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Im andrea nakano. As Alameda County considers changing its rules organizers of the recall against mayor sheng thao he remain confident voters will be able to have their say in november. They say theyre well ahead of ballot deadlines. Reinstate armstrong. Recall sheng thao now supporters of the oakland mayor recall say its time for change. And im mad as double he he hockey sticks, and something must be dunn about it. Reporter theyre mad because they blame mayor sheng thao for what they say is out of control crime. We are not safe in oakland. Its not safe at all in the city of oakland. Were all looking over our back in the broad daylight. Reporter thats exactly why oakland voter Julian Pearce recently signed the recall while out on a walk around lake merritt. I