Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of a
Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of a
Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of a
Are slowing down, the Manufacturing Sector in this Country Contracting a little bit. To the wall street journals Jillian Melchior who follows this very closely. Our own susan li as well. Susan, one thing surprised folks with the china data, this was not something to be expected and were seeing more and more data like that, less ominous than thought. Now stronger than thought. Reflation as well in the month of august. I love to remind people that china is no longer just a manufacturing hub. Services like here in the u. S. Account for more than 50 of the economy now. So it is not cheap factory floors. If you go to shanghai, beautiful skyscrapers, really fast train this is very positive, especially for an economy that saw the weakest growth in 2years. Neil one of the reasons why the futures was up. Hang seng was up 4 . It owed itself as well to the talk that they will meet some of the protesters demands. Well get into that in a second. Couldnt you flip it around, say Better Things look fo