Washington has been demanding business transparency and threatens to delist mainland companies. Protests against Police Shootings spread to the nba. Playoff games are canceled as refused toee bucks leader court. Haidi we continue to have that lackrnaut rage despite a of very meaningful headline developments on the positive side. We are getting incremental positivity when it comes to u. S. China trade as well as daily developments on the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine as well. We are seeing futures flat at the moment, lower by. 1 after both the s p and the nasdaq hitting another alltime high. Optimism being seen in the fourth straight day of record highs for u. S. Stocks. The nikkei 225 just erasing some of the earlier moves, flat at the moment when it comes to futures trading in chicago. We wait to hear from president abes press conference tomorrow. The focus being on his health and the future of auburn onyx and where dollaryen goes from here. It is holding at 105. 91 at the moment.
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The president , but the challenger says the vote was rigged. The eu and the u. S. Have their doubts, too. It is the highest profile arrest in hong kong since beijing pushed through a new National Security law. Police have arrested the media tycoon, jim a, accusing him of plotting with Foreign Forces. Jim l. , accusing him of plotting with Foreign Forces. Im brent goff. To our viewers watching on pbs and around the world, welcome. In lebanon, the entire government quick almost a week after the fatal blessed in beirut. The president today announced the resignation of his government. The cabinet took office just eight months ago. Many lebanese lame the countrys political elite for years of corruption and negligence, which they say made last weeks explosion possible. Clashes continue between police and protesters in beirut tonight. In his address today, the Prime Minister said he is quitting to make possible the changes that lebanon needs. Today, we are heeding the people and their demands
17000000 americans earlier this Week Senate Republicans released a nearly one trillion dollar relief package of their own this was to counter the 3 trillion dollars package that the House Democrats passed back in may talks are scheduled to resume through the weekend but a deal still seems pretty far from sight. Commodities in crypto markets are heating up around the world as traditional equity markets take a breather from their epic rally last quarter well it seems like we are seeing a big asset rotation coming on. In the boom bust cohost Christine Christie chinese regulators theyre rushing to curb Precious Metals trading in order to temper speculation how dangerous is this for or the speculative market while this could be very dangerous especially when you take into account the huge middle Class Population in specially in a country like china weve seen this before and there was widespread market from a previously which created bubbles we had. Tech bubble we had an i. P. O. Bubble we h
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up extra Unemployment Benefits are running out for millions of american congressional negotiations stalled for the next relief bill and we take a look at the hard hit Restaurant Industry to see how workers and Small Business owners are hoping to shut down for now limited capacity we have a lot to get to so lets get started. A looming deadline for democrats and republicans as unemployment aid expires admin night on friday while the Senate Republicans want to decrease those 600. 00 per week to 200. 00 but democrats that will theyre not settling for less parties are clashing on several sides including Liability Protections for businesses and schools and funding for state and local government now this comes as applications for Unemployment Benefits increased for the 2nd. Straight week in the week ending on july 18th the number of people receiving those jobless aid well they increased by 867000 bringing th