Worlds biggest processing station in saudi arabia which will be affecting a crude oil supply. President trump announcing a few moments ago he will allow release from the strategic result Petroleum Reserve to stabilize oil prices. Shery look at brent crude prices, surging above 70 a barrel. We are seeing a surge of 19 at the moment. We have seen brent and wti being pressured in the last week as we continue to see this demand going up, really clear given the ongoing trade war, print has fallen rent had fallen last week really clear given the ongoing trade war. Fallen last week. It is up 19 at the moment. Look at brent prices. We have seen huge moves when it came to prices of oil, given the ongoing tensions when it comes to the u. S. China and macro narratives as well, not to mention these are International Energy agencys warning of it agencies warning of a surplus of crude. Down 16 . Crude prices are up 12 . 61 aice of wti above barrel, around the 62 a barrel. When it comes to wti, we co
Locked and loaded for a response and hong kong protesters say that the government must do more. Lets get started with a quick check of u. S. Futures down. 4 after the saudi arabia drone attacks. , gaining ground by 11 . At one point, jumping 19 , which would be the biggest jump since 1991. That is 68 a barrel level. Gaining ground, seeing the biggest jump in a month. All of this a given that geoPolitical Risks are back again. We have seen oil prices under pressure lately, given the fact we have seen trade negotiations and tensions weighing on the demand. Some ofes paring back the earlier decline after President Trump said he would allow the release of Strategic Petroleum reserves. All of this playing into the market. Lets see how this will impact the open. Lets get over. Severe do we know how severe the damage is to this facility in saudi arabia . Analyst we have been talking to think that almost half of the lost supply could be tomorrow,as early as but in order to have the full supply
Weakest number in 17 years. This is below that number. Retail sales also weaker than expected. The expectation was for 7. 9. You are looking at 7. 5 year on year for august. Again, below the july number as well. In terms of fixed asset investment, we are focused on the private sector and estate sector, also missing the surveys. 5. 5 . The survey had 5. 7 . So this is pretty weak data. In terms of retail data, we have seen month on month auto sales for example, a big component and retail sales, falling almost double digits. In terms of Industrial Production you have seen the impact of tariffs, but this awes this august that it doesnt account for the additional tariffs in september so that will be a further drag. Domestically you have weak demand as well. Investment, some economists suspected a step up in terms of local governance and the issue of special bonds to fuel additional estate sector investments. It doesnt look like that has spread through. Across the board this is a miss. In,
What caused bitcoin to plunge 1,000 bucks in minutes and the surprise winners and losers of the first democratic debate and what big topic surprisingly was missing its thursday, june 27th Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan futures are higher on the dow. Your chart of the day already on this thursday has got to be bitcoin. If you have not been following it, its been a crazy 24 hours for the crypto all right. This is an intraday chart. 24hour chart of bitcoin yeah bitcoin right now is down 991 all right. We surged past 13,000 here almost touched or basically did hit 14,000 then news that the biggest bitcoin exchange, coinbase, had crashed. Nobody was able to trade on coinbase look at that in minutes, bitcoin fell to about 12,000 14,000 to 12,000 in minutes. Kind of tried to come back now weve been sliding throughout the Early Morning bitcoin down 7 or 1,000 a coin to 11,921. More on th
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