Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
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Were talking about syria. Were expecting to hear from the white house any minute. Youre taking a look at the press briefing room, reporters likely to push for answers on what is the administrations plan here to respond to the chemical weapons attack which president obama blames squarely on the Syrian Government . Jill dougherty is standing by at the white house and, jill, i want to ask you a couple questions here. First of all, we heard from the president. He says no doubt the assad regime used chemical weapons on its own people here. He will be Briefing Members of Congress Later in the evening. What do we expect to hear from the president today . Well, we may not hear anything specifically publicly. This, they have presented at least they have this intelligence estimate, this i should say Intelligence Report that musters whatever evidence they have that the regime as they would argue did use chemical weapons. Theyre presenting that to the members of congress. This would be presumably
Zheng Qinwen, the 12th seed from China, etched her name into the annals of tennis history, overcoming a shaky start against the unseeded Anna Kalinskaya 6-7(4) 6-3 6-1, to secure her spot in the first Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open .
Zheng Qinwen, the 12th seed from China, etched her name into the annals of tennis history, overcoming a shaky start against the unseeded Anna Kalinskaya 6-7(4) 6-3 6-1, to secure her spot in the first Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open .