5 pm here in moscow having a good day what if you are in the wild thanks to choosing a National Lots of stories for you this hour starting with this one donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his fost of a visit to afghanistan and greasing american troops based on he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban are back on despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel holkins discussed this with me. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and for his global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghanistan was all about that to demonstrate hes in charge and he is t
And says it will support a slowing economy. Australia fights bushfires on two coasts as the fans flames are fanned. Hottest days since record began. Shery clicks check foraw the dow gaining. 8 the first time surpassing the 28,000 level as we had a broad risk on session. S p 500 being led higher by health care and trade sensitive tech stocks. More positive trait headlines and that helped boost the stock market. Semi conductors, the Philadelphia Semiconductor index at a record high after Applied Materials came out and boosted sales forecasts. Nasdaq also at a record high come up. 7 . Haven assets broadly falling. 10 year yield rising for the first time last week not to mention that the dollar also saw a weekly loss. We will keep a close eye on what happens in hong kong this morning as we are now Hearing Police are ready to storm into the Polytechnic University in hong kong. Lets see how things are shaping up in asia. Sophie hong kong certainly is a focal point this monday morning. We are
More precious than faang, the one surprising investment thats making some more money than all the top tech names that you know its thursday, august 29th and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. If the black keys cant get you going, i cant help you friends. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where where ever in the world youre watching look at this, dow futures are soaring up 209 points right now. They were not like this a couple of hours ago futures made a dramatic move around 3 00 a. M. New york time this morning, look at that boom, were muddling along down a couple of points this is at the same time that the Chinese Commerce minister, china opposes any more escalation of a trade war. They hope the United States will show sincerity and concrete action adding both trade teams have been in touch and are working to create conditions for what they call successful negotiation. Futures were up 209 right now. The bond market is not moving as much on the headlines. Yield still low, a
Of course, in kingdom of lies but the one thing they have the most in common is a sort of dancing between good and bad you have people who have a woman in romania that has few computer skills and a gentleman in china and a gentleman in russia was good computer skills but you see them going to work off and on with both sides of the equation so somebody can be a hacker for bad or be a criminal but sometimes they can use those deals with good use and sometimes they go all the way down the fed bath and you see certain people who have a bit of a bent towards going towards that way towards our friend in russia but in the end you have people who are curious interesting and people we can learn from which is what i was going for here. How much money to those people literally steal . Thats an interesting question. I dont think i have an actual figure for anyone but without having way too many details we do see one of the characters makes a billiondollar ransom where demand in one shot and its no
Announcer news to build a better bay area. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning, everyone, it is sunday august 18th. We are starting our morning with quick look at our forecast. Heres meteorologist lisa argen, good morning. Good morning to you. We have had a combination of clear areas. Now the fog is beginning to move back in. Heres live doppler 7. Check out santa cruz. It was plain old cloudy a while ago. With the mist and drizzle it looks cool out there. Inn sfra, sun, 64. 67 in oakland, partly cloudy. We are 0 in gilroy, low 60s in san jose. The golden gate, yep you are beginning to see an beyond shore flow. We will have a cool day. Right now it is in the upper 50s for much of the north bay. Napa at 61. Petaluma at 61. Mid 60s in the inland valleys. Heres san jose. The rest of the day today featuring more sun. The committeesal clouds. Low to mid 70s around noontime around the bay and inland. The coolest day today out of the next seven. Then we will talk about the warming trend, where