At a 10 plus number for on them limit on friday. The dow jones is down zero point 3 . The s p is positive by just a point. The nasdaq is down by four points. Very Little Movement right now, at least around these indices. The dollar index is stronger today at 100. 18, as the said continues to as the fed continues to invent ways to get money into the economy, the latest to get banks to breach their leverage ratios. What is going on in europe right now, guy . Guy as you say, the dollar is creeping up, which means the euro is going down. The euro a big component of the dxy index. The dollar regaining a bit of traction right now despite the fed efforts. European stocks down by about 0. 6 . The only sector in positive territory is the oil and gas sector, given the climb we are seeing in crude prices. Brent is up by 5 on expectation for the president that a deal can be done between the russians and the saudis. Eurodollar now with a 1. 08 handle. Down at the bottom, youve got a bit of an offer
Welcome to the program a longtime ally of u. S. A President Donald Trump has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison for lying to congress and witness tampering or just stone was facing a much longer sentence until the president tweeted about his case lets bring in john hendren not correspondent in washington d. C. Whos been following what has been really a very eventful day. It has indeed President Trump is preparing right now as we speak to address a rally in nevada thats where voters will pick the republican and democratic president ial nominees on saturday for that state and the president is a likely to mention roger stone just as he did earlier in the day stone is a legendary figure loyal to 2 president s he was a dirty tricks or his own words who did the bidding of president Richard Nixon and now he is loyal to President Donald Trump and he was convicted for lying about trumps connections and his administrations connections with russia and about leaked democratic emails
Little too late and by then the protesters demands had moved into calls for full democracy as well as an independent commission of inquiry into Police Actions during the past 6 months and of course below me here we have a crowd of perhaps more than a 1000000 could be marching in the streets of Central Hong Kong today and that is also a reflection i think of what this protest movement has achieved i think those who felt that the protest movement had somehow run out of steam which is what i think the Hong Kong Government was hoping have been greatly mistaken many of the people marching on sunday with the same people i think who voted in the Historic District Council Elections 2 weeks ago when the president took a seat count school a resoundingly fix tree taking control of some 17 of hong kongs 18 District Councils and this i think is a continuation of that moment and its also another reminder that the voice of protest in hong kong is far from diminished. A fire in the indian captain new
New leader says that hes a president for all but the noisy groups appear far from convinced. We begin in hong kong where more than a 1000000 protesters have brought the city to a standstill its just after 7 local time and people have been marching for of a 5 hours now demanding greater protection of the democratic freedoms and human rights sundays rally is the culmination of 6 months of sometimes violent protests the territory is locked in a dispute over the nature of its relationship with Mainland China police approved sundays demonstration but theyve warned theyll break it up if theres any violence lets go live now to hong kong i was here as adrian brown is there so 6 months on adrian what of these protests achieved. Well i think these protesters have probably achieved actually quite a lot they managed to get that controversial extradition bill finally officially withdrawn by the government but of course that was too little too late and by then the protesters demands had morphed into
Epicenters of violence during antigovernment protests in iran. And spoil and you know who is has admitted he was overweight and out of shape for his a rematch with anthony just one just for reclaimed his heavyweight title dealt with a point when over in saudi arabia. A lot of protest leaders in hong kong say 800000. 00 people have marched through the city there demanding greater democratic freedoms and human rights the march is the culmination of 6 months of protests police approved sundays event but warned they would not tolerate a repeat of recent violent protests and just before the march began police displayed a handgun and ammunition they said were recovered in. A raid they say the weapon would have been used to in their words create chaos during the rally lets get the latest now from adrian brown who is live for us in hong kong so adrian huge numbers of protesters have been marching through the streets there throughout the day and into the evening where things stand right now. We