Appetite for treasuries. Jay powell insists it is not the return of qe. Tension sores in the middle east. Turkey says its forces will move into syria at any moment. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures under pressure, fell. 1 after the s p 500 for two consecutive sessions. Semiconductors taking the biggest hit, they fell the most in about six weeks. We have trade headlines sparking concern about tensions intensifying between the u. S. And china. That is upsetting some of the comments coming from fed chair powell, who left the door open for rate cuts. The dow lost more than 300 points while the nasdaq fell 1. 7 . Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Sophie australian markets have lower, asx 200 opening snapping a threeday gain. Bhp shares among the biggest laggards. Studyssie dollar trading after overnight gyrations on the trade brinkmanship. Confidence numbers for october are due in a halfhour. Nikkei futures pointing to a lackluster start. South kor
Of a woman at a lunch without her permission. Did you . No and what the public want to hear is what we are going to do to unite the country. In westminster a meeting of Opposition Party leaders gets under way one of their questions. If there was to be a caretaker Prime Minister who should it be . Thousands of women are dying needlessly from heart attacks because they fail to recognise their symptoms, and receive poorer care than men. Saudi arabias crown prince says he takes some responsibility for the murder of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, but denies personally ordering it. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport jane. Hi, simon. Scotland have boosted their hopes of progressing to the knockout stages of the Rugby World Cup theyve earned a 3a 0 bonus point victory over samoa and are up to third in the pool a group. And darren, it is wet . It certainly is. Flood warnings and more warnings of heavy rain today and into tomorrow. Later on in the week we could have an ex hurricane on
Improved on the ground by many accounts. Not fully resolved in terms of human rights abuses. By and large the country is stable. There is a joint civilian and military government in place. Things seem to be progressing according to the plans that have been outlined by the government. With the seven companies that would be added to this restricted list would it require us to divest of any positions. Are there ones where we would potentially have to take our position and divest . Correct. Those are the only two . This would be on page 2 of the memo. In the third column 2. 36 million in the electric. 3. 94 million in se s iemens tht we could make subject to our investment restriction. The determination was that by and large the u. S. Has lifted sanctions. These companies are providing as commissionter pointed out services to the citizens, and i think there are necessary communication and Power Services that the citizens do need. There is a consideration here of and as we proceed and evalu
With the seven companies that would be added to this restricted list would it require us to divest of any positions. Are there ones where we would potentially have to take our position and divest . Correct. Those are the only two . This would be on page 2 of the memo. In the third column 2. 36 million in the electric. 3. 94 million in se s iemens tht we could make subject to our investment restriction. The determination was that by and large the u. S. Has lifted sanctions. These companies are providing as commissionter pointed out services to the citizens, and i think there are necessary communication and Power Services that the citizens do need. There is a consideration here of and as we proceed and evaluate the benefits of allowing companies to operate in a Company Versus benefiting a government that is subject to sanctions or is enacting human rights abuses against citizens. That is the balance that we are trying to understand. They havent changed the investment policy as a result o
The travel Company Folds under the weight of its debt, leaving tens of thousands of tourists stranded. Brexit goes stateside. Boris johnson takes his bid for a deal to the General Assembly in new york. Labor divisions threaten to undermine its Party Conference in brighton. Brent resumes gains on concerns over aramcos output. Irans foreign minister sounds a tough tone after a u. S. Troop deployment to saudi arabia. Im not confident we can avoid a war. We are confident we will not start one, but im confident that whoever starts one will not be the one who finishes it. Halfhour less than a hour to go until the european open. Im taking a look at a monthlong chart of oil. You can see the break away to the upside when those aramco facilities were attacked. We then recovered to some extent, but we are coming back up in terms of the group rice. Those tensions are building backup. Take a look at what we are expecting in terms of the cash equities open. We have the ftse, cac, and dax futures. Fu