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And politicians are angry after its revealed that american firms provide the Technology Used to shut down the internet during the disputed president ial election. Good morning from russia just turned 11 am here now this thursday the 17th of september live from. Moscow its kevin owen with the update for you for the next 30 minutes i can stay with me as we go through it and the news event coming up now then the European Parliament imminently going to vote on a resolution urging sanctions on russia if it should fail to carry out an open investigation into the alleged assassination plot against alexina valmy the kremlin those urged the bloc not to politicize the case looking forward to what might be coming up over the next hour or 2 peter all of it in berlin with more. Be voting later on thursday in the European Parliaments on a resolution to do with russia relations between e. U. Member states and. What this resolution does is it calls on russia to cooperate with an investigation into wha
Vast majority of the worlds population therefore did not. Follow their Morning Money as kevin i would welcome to the weekly from r. T. International a roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you 1st the russian opposition figure election the valley is on the path to recovery at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced coma last week hes since revealed his intention to return to russia as soon as hes fighting fit again meantime the diplomatic row between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisonings only got worse in the week all monday germany said labs in sweden and france it independently verified that the valley was poisoned by a nerve agent from the group the Global Chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russias prosecutor generals requested that information on the case be shared but so far to no avail. With their excuses are completely contrived germany says it cant tell us anything in direct says to the organization for the p
Many of indices. The nasdaq is 3. 2 higher. We are also seeing a recovery for oil. We are still below 40 per barrel. The vix is up there but well below 30. For all the recent volatility is favorable for some investors, lets welcome our first guest. She is managing director and head of longshores equity. Talk to us about the strength of a strategy these days. It has been a couple of years for hedge funds. What is the driver of this . Thank you for having me. This is such a great question. It is head spinning which way the markets are going to go. There is daytoday volatility. We have the election, a vaccine, theres a lot of volatility in this market. Whats important for strategies most importantly is dispersant. To see winners and losers. Short Equity Strategies struggle predominantly more because of the short book. It was the short book that was a challenge in this rising market. Accelerate to where we are today in the cycle and where we are today in the pandemic and we have real oppor
First black president s friend. Trevor night three of the Democratic National convention was focused on women. Women fighting for their rights, women pushing for change, and women who dont want to say they told you so but they told you so. We also heard from Elizabeth Warren who delivered a speech from inside a school about the biden policies that would help families and working mothers. Now, if you paid attention, you would have noticed she also left a little easter egg for people in the background with letter blocks spelling out b. L. M. , which, if you think abit, the perfect rorschach test, because if youre woke it stands for black lives matter. If youre conservative it means blue lives matter. And in my mind it means beyonce loves me oh, my god beyonce loves me i knew it i knew it now this wasnt just womens night because it had a lot of women speaking. It was womens night because it highlighted the constant obstacles and challenges women have been fighting against for years, from