Nationalist with. The future world war one. All knowledge is here. Hello im Darren Jordan this is counting the cost of aljazeera your look at the world of business economics this week corrupt and bankrupt powerful banking and political clowns have destroyed lebanons economy while people cant get access to their Bank Accounts billions have been moved out of the country. President trump wants to install his own man at the bank will oversee latin americas recovery from the pandemic but some nations are opposed to the move. And the case of the gas power plant that wasnt built but the company was awarded billions of dollars nigeria goes to court to reverse that decision. Lebanon is bankrupt its been brought to its knees by the powerful Banking Industry and its ties to the political elite sometimes those times have been indistinguishable over 2 decades money flowed from citizens to enrich bankers and as the currency crisis unfolded they extinguished any hopes of a recovery by blocking reform
Hello im down in jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week corrupt. Banking and political clowns have destroyed lebanons economy people cant get access to their Bank Accounts billions have been moved out of the country. President trump wants to install his own man at the bank oversee latin americas recovery from the pandemic but some nations are opposed to the move. And the case of the gas power plant that wasnt built but the company was awarded billions of dollars nigeria goes to court to reverse that decision. Lebanon is bankrupt its been brought to its knees by the powerful Banking Industry and its ties to the political elite sometimes those times have been indistinguishable over 2 decades money flowed from citizens to enrich bankers and as the currency crisis unfolded they extinguished any hopes of a recovery by blocking reforms and restricting access to money ordinary citizens cant get hold of their money and are limit
It was the big gainer. It closed at an alltime high. Tech has been leading the way. Sales force, facebook, taketwo and qualcomm at record highs you have to watch one stock in particular apple. After more than 10 gain on friday and thursday night, it closed up 2. 5 to an alltime high percentages away from hitting the 2 trillion market cap that 4 to 1 stock split is hit that price has to sit 477 not far off. Weve been talking about the pressure that has been put on yields in the treasury market. Right now, the 10year note at 0. 45 . Scott . Becky, im listening to you talk about tech and these companies. We have to get ready to talk nasdaq 11,000. As crazy as that would sound, we are on the doorstep. In spitting distance, basically. Unbelievable. Largy carri largely carried by these big five apple, amazon, facebook and alpha bes alphabet and microsoft looking back in march, would you have thought we would be talking nasdaq 11,000 by summer . No way. There is reason for it if you look at s
Expiring ones. The dollar index in weakness, 1200 right now and continues to slide down over the past four weeks. The dollar moving average 200 day the lowest average in recent weeks. Citi says looking at a 30 possibility that gold will get to 2000 an ounce in three to five months. Stocks rebounded yesterday after slumping 5 . China up 1. 3 , turnover has receded from its highest levels since 2015. The hang seng up 1. 6 , biggest increase since july 6. Tencent adding 5 . Alibaba is the one to watch, surging 5 . Ant financial look at where we are in terms of the Southeast Asian markets. China up by 0. 5 . Sti up 0. 7 . Theaad we also have European Union leaders running a policy marathon as there planned two day meeting to pass a massive Recovery Fund. In the u. S. , republicans and democrats are starting to hammer out a budget plan this week. Our policy editor Kathleen Hays is with us. In both cases, agreeing on a we are getting some murmurs of an agreement. We certainly are, and we kno
Come to a deal. We will have more on that, but still a super solid bid. We will break down all of this for you coming up. Coming up we will be talking to richard horton, and also mike wirth, the chevron chairman on the latest takeover. Leaders reconvene in about one hour for stimulus negotiations in brussels. Here with more is michael mckee. There is so many details within this. I guess the bigger question is, is this actually good . Michael that depends on your definition of good and the timing. Timing is the issue with getting the deal. They have been negotiating for quite some time. Everybody is focused on these negotiation. They talked through the night recessing at 6 00 in the morning. They should be Getting Started any with the new idea on the table. The big fight is over how much of the package is going to be in grants and how much in loans and have conditions attached. The frugal for countries led by luxembourg and austria and the danes have said they do not want most of this t