Saudi aramco has completed the biggest share sale of all time its much awaited i. P. O. Raise 25600000000. 00 for just 1. 5 percent of the saudi oil producer is the company at a total of 1. 00 trillion dollars its short of crown Prince Mohammed bin salmonds target of 2 trillion but nevertheless confirms the ranko as the most valuable company in the world. Mainly relied on domestic and regional investors after there was limited interest from further afield. On that lets bring in ashutosh pun day we can understand bit more about this so 25600000000. 00 seems like an enormous amount of money is it in this context. Well not really if you as the saudi prince here remember he was definitely expecting to raise 100000000000. 00 from this offering now is just a quarter of that and evaluation as you mentioned 2 trillion dollars its 1. 7 trillion so definitely he would be a very happy man but if you asked the Global Traders they would say that its over prized they are betting the valuation any an
About turns out a good political consultant consultant rory reilly topping roy thank you for joining me. Thank you as an advocate for u. S. Military veterans what has been the impact of the Washington Post release of these documents for you and a lot of a veterans you care for from that war. Sure so a lot of veterans do not support the war in afghanistan i think one of the most recent polls done showed that over 60 percent of veterans feel that we should no longer be in the country and that perhaps we shouldnt have been there at all so veterans not supporting this war thats been a sentiment thats been out there for a while so i think a lot of veterans feel vindicated in some ways particularly those that deployed to afghanistan and got to witness some of these failures firsthand on the ground theyve been articulating a lot of things that were in the Washington Post report for year. Literally years and i think again vindication is the best word to describe how some of them are feeling be
Exactly what many whistleblowers activists analysts and all of us independent journalists have been saying and writing about the war since the longer writing about the longest war in u. S. History since a little after it actually began back in 2001 but that doesnt mean that this latest release of documents by the post is important because it is incredibly damning to the credibility of the u. S. Government and the pentagon the post reports that the documents were in fact generated as part of a federal project examining the failures of the longest Armed Conflict in u. S. History and that they include more than 2000 pages of previously unpublished notes from interviews of there were 400 Afghanistan War insiders everyone from generals to diplomats to aide workers even afghan officials and what do all these interviews and transcripts ultimately reveal well as john sop told the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction told the post the American People have constantly been lie
Business in china but the government is not always sharing in the fun. Welcome to g. W. Business in bed. Saudi aramco has completed the biggest share sale of all time its much awaited i. P. O. Race 25600000000. 00 for just 1. 5 percent of the saudi oil producer that values the company as a total of 1. 00 trillion dollars its short of crown Prince Mohammed bin sounds targeted 2 trillion but still confirms around co as the most valuable company in the world. Mainly relied on domestic and regional investors after a limited interest from further afield well only on that lets bring in ashutosh pun day we can understand more about this or 25600000000. 00 seems like an enormous amount of money is it in this context but not really if you as the saudi prince here remember us definitely expecting to raise 100000000000. 00 from this offering now its just a quarter of that and evaluation as you mentioned 2 trillion dollars its 1. 00 trillion so definitely he would be a very happy man but if you as
Make their singhas biggest theye day moves as move toward a brexit deal. President trump says u. S. China trade talks are going very well. They continue in washington today. Plus, reports of an explosion on jeddahian tanker near send oil prices spiking. Matt we are 30 minutes away from the european open. I have got those oil prices on my screen. This is a threeday chart of brent crude. It has been climbing anyway on optimism for a u. S. China trade deal, so it was already up to almost 60 a barrel. Now it has jumped over that at 60. 40 on these reports, first from reuters, then from the oil news agency that i missile has struck an oil tanker and it is leaking oil into the red sea. Lets take a look at futures here. Weer we saw stackocks rally, are seeing futures rise on european indexes as well. On thet on the dax, and continental indexes, gaining when you have a big rally in the pound, then you expect to see a loss in equities, that negative correlation. Is it breaking down . I know you