Twitter shut down 32,000 accounts tied to china, russia and turkey for manipulating the platform. This after joe biden called out facebook for failing to curb misinformation and not taking a stand on political speech, oed i many who watch the by many who watch the social network. The company spends a lot of time outlining Community Standards they are supposed to enforce against all users, and when one particular user comes along who happens to send his posts from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, theres a different standard. In a lot of ways, facebook is too big to fix right now. Facebook has 2. 5 billion users around the world constantly posting in more than 100 languages. That is a system too big to govern. You have one young white man who has one experience in this life who has the control of billions of people, what they see and view. It is wrong. I dont know if he is drunk with power or simply just in a bubble. Us is someone else who has an opinion, roger an author. Ive got to get your te
Index to session lows in the final halfhour. Asian markets face an uncertain retention ofs want u. S. Actions. Meanwhile, hong kong braces for what could be the biggest protesting month as the City Government needs to discuss criminalizing disrespect for chinas National Anthem. Haidi lets get a look at the markets, which are being jolted by prospects of more u. S. China tensions, the prospect of these further sanctions from washington to beijing as well as Key Developments in hong kong as we get the second reading of this controversial bill as well as the expectations of more protests. Held by newg upside zealand markets. We heard from the annual testimony report there could be more mobility to the countrys Financial Institutions, hearing from the governor. Upside in kiwi trading at the moment. U. S. Futures stumbling. A little downside when it comes to trading in the futures on the back of the failure to hold onto the key psychological 3000 level for the snp, geopolitical concerns get
A live from london also coming up. Tensions high in hong kong as thousands defy a police ban to mark the 31st anniversary of the chanterelle square crackdown last. I libyas u. N. Recognized government says its regained full control of the capital tripoli after a year of fighting highly for hafter. Hundreds of people have gathered in minneapolis to remember george floyd the black man whose death in Police Custody sparked an outpouring of anger and protests that spread across the u. S. And the world floyds unity is to be delivered by the Civil Rights Activist the reverend al sharpton is expected to call for National Legislation akin to the 1964 Civil Rights Act floyd died 10 days ago when a white officer knelt on his neck Police Violence against black civilians into the spotlight all 4 officers involved in the death have been arrested charged and of now appeared in court with bail set at 1000000. 00. Lets listen in now to the Memorial Service where one of his brothers is now speaking. An
The nasdaq is 1 higher. 715. 80. The yun at crude oil is rallying again after inventories earlier on were a massive surprise. 34 a barrel. Calmern calm her vix vix, below 28th. Lets get a market check with taylor riggs. Onlor a trend going underneath the service is it is the big caps outperforming the small caps. One of the day got performers today outperforming the nasdaq and the russell 2000, the. A lift off in 10 year yields, up to 70 basis points. Hsbc told me yesterday that their target is still around 50 basis points. You still see that 10year range where it has been the last few weeks. I want to show you a chart in my terminal. We have been talking about the rally in European Equity markets after an announcement of their recovery fund. That means it is catching up to the s p 500 on a former pe basis. The s p is about 27 times the european index. Pe up to about 20 times on a basis. I want to take a look at the home index. Forooks like it is losing the first time after a nineday r
1st blooper since to restart did this goalkeeping era construct a berlin and important victory. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us china has taken another step to increase its control over hong kong and subdue public protest beijings National Peoples Congress Overwhelmingly passed a plan that gives the Chinese Government the power to impose new restrictions on hong kong that Controversial National security law will bypass the territorys own ruling legislature prodemocracy advocates say the law violates the freedoms promised under hong kongs special one country 2 systems status. And the Chinese Government said the implementation of the security law was for the Long Term Benefit of hong kongs prosperity and stability. One country 2 systems is chinas basic state policy. The Central Government has all along fully and faithfully implemented one country 2 systems under which the people of hong kong govern hong kong with a high degree of autonomy. First lets get the view from h