Ports of russians from the taliban strikes on u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan. And egypt says its dispute with ethiopia over its megaton project on the nile could lead to conflict if the u. N. Fails to intervene. But into the program chinas top legislative body has unanimously approved a National Security law for the territory that may crush Political Freedoms its the most far reaching development in hong kongs history ever since it was handed over to china in 1997 acts of subversion could now face a maximum sentence of life in jail critics say itll be used to stamp out all forms of dissent and it comes after months of mass unrest sparked by fears of chinas tightening grip on hong kong the legislation aims to cement beijings control over the semi autonomous territory and reshape the future of one of the worlds major sign. And szell centers adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong the 1st us cross over to beijing where katrina new is waiting for us in katrina real
Bank should have never taken Jeffrey Epstein on as a client as it agrees to pay a 115 million fine. Confirmed drove cases in america have crossed the 3 million mark while the death toll has made the biggest one day jump since early last month. Lets look at the markets as they double down on the concerns around the coronavirus and of course the Economic Impact the European Markets had a contraction. Decent forecasts for investors to rake through just highlighting some of the fears that many have had in the spike of fresh cases we are seeing in terms of the Market Action, we are picking up on the wall street trade and to European Markets that reversed. You can see another modest decline. 1 3 of a percent coming off the benchmark. The sectors and the boards the ftse trade is down by. 2 of a percent. It is a minimal decline. Were hearing further reports around consumption, any further scheme to try to support market businesses that has meant we are just down modestly this is what you are s
And Andrew Ross Sorkin well start with the markets this morning as the nasdaq logged another record high nasdaq now on an eightday win streak the longest since december last year watching u. S. Equity futures today. There is a pull back the dow is indicated down 265 appointments s p off by 28 and nasdaq down by 50 the nasdaq has seen its best quarter since 1999 and the dow the best since 1987. Check out the s p, for this quarter, s p is up for its best returns it has seen since 1975 looking at the treasury yields this morning youll see the 10year note yielding 0. 7005. That is kind of our comfort zone pretty comfortable if you need to borrow money for sure. The u. S. Is weighing some new tariffs on experts in this case from france, germany, spain and uk related to the 15year old wto fight over aircraft subsidies. Saying the eu is guilty of unfair subsidies to airbus the u. S. Has been accused of unfair subsidies to boeing, negotiations have been at a stalemate. Andrew thank you, joe in
Is laid to rest. Dont stop until it matters that dignity, justice, and equity are a reality for all black lives. What mlks daughter had to say to his children. No crime. The fbi finds nascars Bubba Wallace was not the target of that noose hanging in his talladega garage stall finding it had been there for months. Wallace reacting overnight. Whether it was tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose. And this morning wallace is with us for an interview. Sound familiar . Complaints of illegal fireworks skyrocketing from coast to coast. It goes on all night. Why its happening and what cities are doing to crack down. All that plus play ball. The Major League Baseball season finally gets the green light. Training camps opening next week. The first game set for next month, and legions of thrilled fans are on deck. Today, wednesday, june 24th, 2020. This is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a live in rockefeller plaza. And morning, everybody. Welcome to today on this we
And lockdowns. Welcome, good to have you with us. You see this outbreak again across the south and the west. I guess the question is did these States Reopen too soon . If they reopened too soon its really odd because they opened in the beginning of may and throughout may very little changed and all of a sudden starting early june and accelerated in june theres a huge spike of positive tests in the states. If anything the lockdowns caused this what happened, why didnt it happen in may and not june and thats a very good question which i dont think we have the answer to right now but its also a question that the media is not really asking. Paul do you have any speculation yourself about why that is . Where are they coming from . You have seen, houston, san antonio, miamidade, Maricopa County in arizona. Alex june has been very hot in the sunbelt states, its typically hot in texas and arizona, driven people indoors and use airconditioning. There may be Real Community spread from that. Clea