Place. You can see the dow closed unchanged. Up marginally. The s p 500 gaining a little bit in the nasdaq lower. Certainly a little tension in the tech stock. Scarlet lets dig deeper with our markets reporters. Abigail, what are you watching . A look at the russell 2000 you were looking at. The worst day in a month. At the close, the worst day of the month. Heres a chart we have been looking at for quite some time that initially came from oppenheimer. At that time, they were making the case that if the russell 2000 appears above 1600, that would be a bullish sign. For all of this year, we have been below that 1600 level, although yesterday we did go right above it on a slightly rising moving average. The rsi is now going back into the range from oversold. It will be interesting to see whether they can pick it up and ring the russell 2000 closer to alltime high. About 10 relative to the s p 500. We may continue to see a offer small caps. Off for small caps. Intop and bottom line coming
We travel to the hometown of captain siya kolisi. Proud of its local son. And Lewis Hamilton wins his sixth formula 1 world title. Hes nowjust one short of michael shumachers record. Good evening. A bbc investigation has found that children in care in england and wales are being placed in caravans, narrow boats and holiday homes. The bbc has also seen examples of some providers exploiting loopholes in the law, with the number of under 16 year olds living in these types of unregistered accomodation having tripled in the last two years. The head of the watchdog for childrens services, ofsted, has called the situation a national scandal. Our special correspondent ed thomas, has this exclusive report. I couldnt believe that such a place actually existed. I found it very restrictive. It was enclosed with a fence around it. The sleeping arrangements are very tough. Yasim runs Childrens Homes. He was asked to assess a narrow boat by a London Council who had placed a 14 year old there. The Com
Protesters brought the citys financial district to a standstill. Teargas disrupting the commute for a second consecutive day. Executive carrie lam says she still hopes district elections will be held as scheduled. We still hope we can hold the elections and try our very best to do so because it is an important election to respect and safeguard, but theres the issue of safety in order, so we have to work hard to satisfy these two requirements. Alix 20 meet on the phone from hong kong is karen joining me on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh. What happens next . Karen carrie lam urging order, and at the same time, we had two days of really jarring images and clashes, especially here in the financial hub. These arent images weve seen before. This feels like a bit of an escalation. This is something that led police this afternoon to warn that the city was on the brink of total breakdown. Carrie lam talking about how she still hopes district elections will be held in a couple of weeks.
This is bloomberg surveillance. These are your markets. Quite a lot going on in terms of brexit. Hopefully there is a lot going on when it comes to trade. That is what the markets are putting their hopes on. Lets get that board up for you so we look at what european equities are doing and a little bit of weakness. Stocks in general higher. U. S. Futures higher. Bonds. S in we are expecting a lot of news out of companies such as amazon. Com. 1. 2 957, all eyes on westminster and a possible vote in the house of commons behind me. That is coming up. More from our interview with mark carney at the imf meeting in washington over the weekend. First, lets get straight to super saturday. That was last saturday. Indian lawmakers voted to withhold approval from oris Johnsons Brexit deal until all the legislation had passed. The Prime Minister was then forced to send a letter to brussels asking for another extension. Later today the government is expected to make a fresh bid to get the agreement
A lobbying campaign in the u. S. And canada to pass the trade deal. Turkey is offering us earns is that its forces in Northern Syria have Islamic State fighters in the area under their control. Defense secretary mark esper says his turkish counterpart provided information during a meeting of nato defense officials. But the secretary says the turks need to do more. We call on turkey to abide by their commitment to address the humanitarian crisis, to protect religious and ethnic minorities, to investigate allegations of war crimes, and maintain control of isis prisoners. The allies remained unified in our efforts to preserve the defeat of isis and we must Work Together to make sure they are unable to reconstitute. The u. S. Envoy on the u. S. Conflict has more and more than 100 Islamic State militants have escaped from prisons in Northern Syria. President trump says most have been recaptured. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists