And midday in hong kong. Tracy this is Bloomberg Markets middle east. No shortage ofs things to talk about from last week. Ofhad a smorgasbord political events, central bank meetings, and nonfarm payrolls on friday. What caught your eye . What islets kick off happening with the u. S. Dollar. Drop. On its sixth weekly this chart really gives the additional context. This chart goes all the way back to february 2016. We got the jobs data and we did not get a lot of evidence though in terms of how much further it has to go. , of course, the issue of wage pressures that continues are the report, but tomorrow the report, but it gives the dollaryen trade a little bit of a floor, tracy. Tracy lets look at how the jobsts reacted to the growth. The s p 500 closed within a point of an alltime high, but course,story was, of banking stocks. They showed up in the Dow Jones Industrial average. That was up almost a percent, reclaiming 20,000 after trump signed his executive order asking for the review
It gathered pace when yellin suggested we were in a different kind of mode. Where we are with some of the individual names vodafone had the rating reduced by s p. The debt rating has been cut. Thats the third lowest. 449 for the current offer. Get ready for more. That seems to be the news. They are preparing for a new offer of 500 swiss francs. We are trading below the current did. The market current bid. The market is a little bit unconvinced to do a deal at that price. They got tenants to stay. He is calling the bottom of the euro. It is going to base out around 104. You have quantitative easing. You have to really move on the machinations of greece. It really reinvigorated itself. You had yellin saying to get ready for higher rates. 12 year low. Will it get to 132. You enjoy the weekend. Spanish inflation month on month. The preliminary reading comes in at 0. 5 . 2 . The Inflation Numbers better than expectations. We get the final reading followed by inflation of italy. Bit later gr
Industry and a country known for dangerous working condition animators are looking to change that perception. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, four people have been killed and Dozens Injured in bangkok thailand has police mount an offensive against antigovernment protesters. Police detained about 100 demonstrators while trying to clear protest camps around government offices that have been occupied for weeks and as Al Jazeera Veronica reports it shows how volatile it is between the Prime Minister and opposition calling for her to resign. It was before noon in this historical area of old bangkok when the violence broke out. What had happened was that riot police were trying to clear the area of demonstrators who occupied this intersection for several weeks now. They brought in bulldozers that were trying to clear the area as cheers rang out from the protesters and suddenly an explosion was heard and we since discovered that was an m79 grenade and they too
Five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay released. We want to get your take. Should the u. S. Negotiate with the taliban for the only prisoner of war . Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. You can send us a tweet, cspanwj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. You can email us at journal cspan. Org. Have a fourth line for active and retired military, 202 5853883. No negotiating with terrorists versus leave no soldier behind. With the war in afghanistan boding down, the plight of bergdahl has left the u. S. Government trying to reconcile those two longstanding policies. The official declined to be identified. The Defense Department is also involved. Declined comment, but Bowe Bergdahls family welcome d the statement. We welcome this development and we applaud the unity and purpose and resolve of the white house and other u. S. Government agencies involved. We hope everyone takes this opportunity seriously. We are cautiously optimistic these discu
Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. A pentagon investigation found incontra vertical evidence that former american p. O. W. Bowe bergdahl walked away from his unit while serving in afghanistan, and this morning bergdahl is listed in stable condition at a Military Hospital in germany. The exchange of brgdahl for five highlevel taliban officials has many questioning it. Many of those critics are right here on capitol hill. The pentagon did not formally accuse bergdahl of deserting, but while many believe he does deserve a heros welcome back home, others believe he deserves a courtmartial. Senate and Committee Members will meet behind closed doors with the department of defense today to try to understand why the Obama Administration let five taliban fighters go in exchange for Army Sergeant bow derg dal. This not only breaks with our policy and press den but it does raise the possibility of highlevel taliban figures who are now going to be free. Reporter the taliban fig