Expects slower Economic Growth and theres one thing creating uncertainty for the worlds second largest economy. Losing fizz, why soda sales may be slipping in the city of brotherly love. Those stories and much more tonight on nightly Business Report for monday, march 6th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. Washington promise toes play a very prominent role on wall street over the next few days, not that it hasnt been already this week. President trump started this week by signing a new im fwra immigratio order. The Labor Department releases the employment for february. But we begin tonight with late breaking news on health care late today investors got their first look at the white house at the house, excuse me, republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Kayla tousche reports tonight from washington. Kayla, this is not even yet a bill, really. It is more a blueprint. Whats in it . Tyler, it will get marked up this week, so it is a language that two important commi
Options. In london, we have a packed show for you. And through the week. A lot of focus on brexit. First things first. Checking in on the markets. A selloff. The selloff of the riskier assets has eased some much. Best has eased has eased somewhat. The one i want to show you is rand. The president of south africa plans to fire his finance minister. We will keep an eye on the emerging markets and we will talk commodities as well. Rand the South African has slumped this morning after the president was set to tell the Senior Leaders of the communist party that he plans to remove the finance minister. That was according to three people who were at the meeting. A spokesman said the people were misinformed. The u. K. Brexit secretary david davis says the u. K. Will not cough up the sums of money that eu officials are saying it will need to to leave the block. Jeanclaude juncker says the to forecast set around 50 million pounds. The bill is set to be an early source of disagreement. Scottish f
Was a frontrunner in all the Security Councils polls. On wednesday he received 13 favorable votes and 2 expressing no opinion. Guterres served as u. N. High commissioner for refugees for a decade. He worked on issues in iraq, myanmar, somalia, syria and elsewhere. The General Assembly held public hearings in april to select the next u. N. Chief. During them, guterres expressed his resolve to tackle refugee problems. Russias Vitaly Churkin is serving as Council President this month. He said the Security Council will meet thursday morning to formally approve guterres and recommend his candidacy to the General Assembly which must give final approval. U. N. Officials released satellite images of the latest situation in the northern syrian city of aleppo. The photos show heavy destruction of houses and a school caused by air strikes. On wednesday, u. N. Agencies released the images of seven locations in and around aleppo. The photos were taken from the middle of last month into early this m
You see behind us, it is cooled off a bit. The dow is down about 15 points. But keep in mind, folks, we have seen huge moves in stocks, bonds and the dollar. Just since the election. And watch out for oil. Crude oil hitting a new threemonth low. Well have more on what is driving oil prices down straight ahead. Tyler . Thank you very much, brian. Tyler mathisen here. Here is what else is happening at this hour. Strong after shocks continue to rock new zealand following sundays 7. 8 magnitude earthquake. U. P. S. , air maintenance workers, voting to strike as contract negotiations stall. And the Transportation Department is setting new rules requiring electric and hybrid cars to emit sounds by 2018. So they cant sneak up on you anymore. We got a busy two hours ahead and we kick it off with the market, the dow, as brian mentioned, briefly hitting a record high at the open. It has since pulled back a bit. Despite the pullback, there are some notable standouts, often are, almost always are.
Personnel and civilian employees. It involves the arrest of a former marine at a u. S. Air base in the southern prefecture of okinawa. Hes being connected with the disappearance of a woman who was later found dead. Now people in okinawa are outraged. They say a Bilateral Agreement on the status of American Military personnel called sofa, grants unfair privileges, and theyre demanding concrete measures from both the u. S. And japanese governments. And nhk worlds moshe kamota reports. Reporter they arrested an american civilian working at the u. S. Base. They says Kenneth Franklin admitted to strangling and stabbing a japanese woman who went missing in april. On tuesday Assembly Members unanimously passed a resolution pressing both governments to ensure that the u. S. Tightens discipline, and also a revision of sofa. Several other local assemblies approved several other resolutions. The status of the agreement stipulates the procedures for washington and tokyo when u. S. Servicemen or ci