3000 jobs will be cut under bains new ownership. Bain capital ownership, which in addition to these details relating to jobs, we are also expecting to hear about aircraft fleet and the future as well, this after bain bought Virgin Australia in what is a pretty bold that on an industry that has been shattered by the travel restrictions and the coronavirus pandemic. Virgin australia committed to regional and charter flying. Of targetsindication and priorities when they are restructured in addition to 3000 jobs being cut. Also getting data out of australia. Manufacturing pmi, services as well as composite index coming through. Dropping from that preliminary number for july. The composite number of 67. 8 also a little bit weaker. The performance of Construction Index coming in at 42. 7, higher than 39. 5. Lets take a look at the aussie dollar. Largely to do with the situation in victoria. We have that renewed lockdown, stricter stage four restrictions. At this time, later on today and tomo
Lebanese capitol. Emmanuel macron inin beirut two days after a blast rips through the city killing 135 people and woundiding 5000. His visit comes one dayy after france responded to calls for help by sending a and medical personnenel to the country. Afafter his meeting with the president , he said the country will continue to sink if reforms are not made. To aidy the priority is and supppport the population unconditionally. France has been pushing for months even years now for necessary reforms in certain sectors, energy, governmentrun tracks, the fight agagainst corruption, if these r reforms e not carried outut, lebanon will cocontinue s sking your sinking. Why is s Emmanuel Macron in lebanon two days after this blast . He is there to reassure lebanese people. He wants to show that france is friends with lebanon. It is true a lot of lebanese christians are francophones. France is the big sister country. The core of this message is clear in the latest statement made by Emmanuel Macron
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
By hundreds. Good evening. The protesters want to see Police Body Cam video released in the case of a man who was shot by officers as they responded to reports of looting. Great . Reporter the Vallejo Police department is now under review by the state attorney general. And of this comes in the wake of the most recent deadly shooting which occurred earlier this month. Now protesters that were out this evening say that the department in alejo has a lengthy history of using deadly force and it needs to stop. Reporter hundreds march through downtown, demanding sweeping changes within pelee hills Police Department. Including the immediate halt to violence, which has led to several deaths within recent years. There have been too many black and brown men that have bled on the streets. Not one more, not in our city. Reporter the diverse crowd chanted in front of the Police Department as officers in right gear stood by. Think slacks of concrete separating the two. One to band, demand is what th
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