Particularly when it comes to equities. 0. 3 . 600 up by the eurodollar just turning negative in front of our eyes. Its been positive for most of the day. As you can see, the movement is to the downside, as it is with brent crude coming out trading 57. 24. We are down by 0. 2 . This talk about what is happening in brussels. This week, the European Union would unveil big plans for rules on Artificial Intelligence and Data Management ahead of the socalled white paper. Has beenns tech czar meeting with facebooks mark zuckerberg. Joining us from brussels, bloombergs maria tadeo. Talk us through how important these rules are going to be. Important because these rules will have a Significant Impact on u. S. Technology companies. European regulators want to get tax reform on Digital Services. A tax on Companies Like facebook. Define a newt to frontier for Digital Services that has to do with Artificial Intelligence, facial recognition, and so on. This meeting was crucial for mark zuckerberg,
500 infotech index up 48 , and the energy index was the least best performer. It still was up, though, which tells you how much these markets were looking for good news. The second best performer, Consumer Discretionary in the s p 500. That includes home depot to amazon, ebay, even general motors, so really across the board, it was a good year. For more on the markets more broadly, we are joined by ing head ofvey, global debt and rate strategy. We widened the curve with a bit of steepening going on. To what do you attribute that . Been a really interesting move. We were inverted six months ago. Happened is the fed has cut 75 basis points. Theyve injected a mountain of liquidity into the system, and theres been a real change in sentiment in the sense that six months ago, we were genuinely concerned about a recession in the u. S. Next year. Have beenerns significantly downsized. Theres still trimming this uncertainty, and we so have a very flat curve. If you look at the twostens, it is n
Already claimed at least 15 lives. Israels Prime Minister seeks immunity from prosecution in 3 Corruption Cases. Violence and arrests as protesters in hong kong kickoff the new was another massive march demanding greater freedom. Supporters and members of an iran backed group of withdrawing from the u. S. Embassy compound in the iraqi capital baghdad after a 2 day siege of americas biggest Diplomatic Mission leaders of the Popular Mobilization forces ordered them to leave but there is a condition they want to Iraqs Parliament to vote on a timeline for the withdrawal of Foreign Forces the protesters are angry about sundays airstrikes by the u. S. On the hezbollah brigades camps that killed at least 27. 00 people earlier on weapons day the crowds threw rocks and lit fires outside the compound irans Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also condemned the u. S. Strikes and want to iran will defend itself if threatened its amount of 14 begins our coverage with this report from bagh
Protesters leave the u. S. Embassy compound in iraqs capital baghdad to withdraw all comes after 2 days of clashes with American Security forces tensions remain high. And turkey edges closer to sending its troops to war torn libya lawmakers are due to vote on a proposal for military intervention that could end up as collating the conflict in that country. Also coming up on the show farming that was once thought impossible we need a pioneer growing fresh vegetables and one of the worlds most inhospitable climates a dark polar winter norways farnell. I brought in Thomas Critelli with us austria. Has ordered Mass Evacuations of coastal communities as bush fires rage across the southeast of the country now naval ships and aircraft are delivering food and water at this hour to thousands who fled the town of and took refuge on the local beaches the worst summer fires and record have left the least 800 people dead. Another devastating 24. 00 alice and this is whats left of the coastal town of
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