It is inauguration day. So early in the morning. Alreadyre is i amendments to it, things in washington that are so different than anything we have seen in our lifetime. And many people would say pretty much within the modern political ear. It will be different today in washington. Nrancine like its bee different for the last six months. A busy show from the u. S. Treasury secretary and the harvard present emeritus, larry summers. Then the riksbank Deputy Governor. Secretaryato general. Lets get to bloomberg first word news. Donald trump has promised to unify america as he prepares to move into the white house. Speaking on the eve of his inauguration in washington, he vowed to carry out his campaign wages to harden the borders and strengthen the military. Mr. Trump it is a movement that started and it is a Movement Like weve never seen anywhere in the world, they say. Theres never been a Movement Like this. And its something very, very special. And were going to unify our country. And o
Badly fitting batteries will be blamed. News fromo breaking the federal Aviation Authority in the u. S. , United Continental holdings requesting a ground stop for domestic flights. It applies to mainland flights. We tried to get hold of the airline, but havent had any calls returned just yet. We will bring you the latest as well. A full ground stop for United Airlines there. Just under half an hour before the trading week is underway in hong kong and shanghai. Chinese lunar holiday. Markets coming on stream. Sophie, a good day. Sophie a good day, but not some earkets in asia as they tak into account what trump had to say on inauguration day. Strength weighing on japanese shares, falling for the first time in four days, exporters weighing on the nikkei 225. Thisba having a good start monday, its biggest intraday gain since december. Media reporting toshiba will raise 500 billion yen to cover its nuclear writedown. Plus, canon is considering investing in toshibas business. 1 , but gold m
Business risk warning today as it reports a charge that could top 6 billion. Were getting set for the openings. We go to hong kong and the rest of china coming on stream in just a little under a half hour from now. Lets get a flavor of what is going on. It seems like one way traffic, david. David were seeing some markets under pressure right now, rish. I think the last 30 minutes or so has maybe changed the conversation a little bit as you can see behind me. The kospi has been down pretty much since it opened. It hasnt been very down. I think if i want to take a phrase from a very simplistic way of explaining the markets. Most stocks down. Japan made it down to the yen, when dollar yen started to fall is when the benchmark basically erased its gains and where we are at the moment. We are still seeing decent gains so the overall tide is up. Australia up for a sixth straight day. I think that would be the longest streak of gains there. In sydney, going back to august of last year, ocbc j
Jump brothers and thats just i mean thats a bold and catastrophic because what she needed in this new you can do this in australia catastrophic fires burning out of control one local fire chief saying conditions are so bad were not able to stop them. And bolivias former president takes a plane to mexico to go into exile but that has not come to situation oblivious capital pas which is expecting more unrest. Im brian thomas great to have you with us violence has been escalating on the israel gaza border following the killing of a Top Commander of the Palestinian Militant Group as long. Israel says babu a top was behind a series of rocket attacks on its territory Israeli Forces killed him in a rare targeted air strike on his home in the gaza strip Palestinian Militants responding by firing rockets at israeli cities including the commercial capital tel aviv authorities have instructed citizens across southern and Central Israel to remain indoors. For the very latest lets bring indeed obvi
The Group of Seven leading industrialised nations turned their attention to migration, artificial intelligence, economic security and the Indo-Pacific region on Friday, the second and final […]