Japans ruling party gets set to pick a new leader. The next Prime Ministers have a tough task of leading the nation after the pandemic. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures up. 4 . This of course after tapping the worst week since march. We continue to see the selloff and idiosyncratic news. Softbank changing options Investment Strategy leading to selling picking up any friday session. Not to mention the tech stock reversed gains after china said it opposes a fourth sale of tiktok. We have the nasdaq composite really under pressure in the u. S. Session on friday, down. 6 . Take a look at what oil is doing because we are coming off of its back its worst back to back weeks since april. Nothing on oil prices, tomention concern about opecs production compliance. Wti at the moment at around 37 a barrel, gaining about. 5 . Lets get a quick check of our asia of how asia is setting up. Sophie we are nearing the halfway mark for september and t
Russia. A sur vie vor describes the cha chaos. Deputy foreign minister began a threeday visit to moscow on wednesday. Hes meeting his russian counterpart and expected to raise the issue over four islands controlled by russia. Japan claims them. The japanese government says the islands were illegally occupied after world ward ii. They are working to the aims of a joint statement from abe and putin in april of 2016. The leaders agree to proceed with negotiations towards a peace treaty and to try to find a mutually acceptable solution. He wants to pave the way for a visit to japan by putin later this year, and the japanese diplomat visits russia as western nations are weary of tokyos dialogue with russia. Russia supports syrias president assad. The leader of japans junior ruling party is trying to build closer ties with south korea, carrying a message of friendship from minister abe. He delivered abes message at the president ial palace, and that message highlights peace and stability jap