Paul welcome to the journal editorial report, The Middle East is on as the world prepares to mark the 1year anniversary of the October 7th Terror Attack with the israeli military pressing forward on multiple frontend taking the fight to irans socalled Axis Of Resistance in gaza, lebanon and yemen. Benjamin netanyahu vowed to change the Balance Of Power in the region. How has the at least changed since the israel hamas war began . Lets ask seth jones, senior Vice President and director of the international Security Program at the center for strategic and international studies. Good to see you again, happy to have you here. How has October 7th and the Israel Response to that changed The Middle East . There is both a shortterm and longerterm impact in the change of the Balance Of Power. The first is in the short term, weve seen hezbollah knocked on its back for the Command And Control structure that has been severely degraded. The leader of hezbollah has been killed and its interesting to
U. K. Announced it will reverse its decision to work with weiwei on monday the country announced it will move to ban the tech giant from its 5 g. Network by 2020 summit Rachel Blevins joins me to break this all down rachel whats what are you paying officials saying about the move where you the u. K. Is quarter secretary was the one who made the announcement and he said that not only will the country not be working with wall way to establish its 5 g. Network but it also plans to Ban Companies from purchasing equipment from wall way by the end of this year take a listen to what else he said earlier the government agrees with the National Cybersecurity sense advice the best way to secure networks is for operators to use the new 52 to one way to prevent to build the new case future 5 networks so to be clear from the end of this year Telecoms Operators must not buy any 5 to equipment from her wallet and once the Telecom Security bill is passed it will be illegal for them to do so. Now this
With the dow gaining 6. 8 there has been some controversy about that too explain whats going on behind the numbers. In terms of how many jobs have been lost during the pandemic. Its fifth positive session. Its been up five sessions in a row. Its indicated higher and the 6th day of the week. That was up by 6. 8 . S p was up by 82 points. And then the nasdaq was up by 2 almost 200 points. The s p indicated up by 6. 5. And treasury yields and did see quite a bit of activity there too. The ten year yield picking up substantially last week and this morning its back at 0. 91 i cant remember the last time we had a ten year above 0. 8 let alone 0. 9. It could be a round number some day not that far 1 maybe cross your fingers. Oil too is almost 40. Oil looks like a bad break looks like it went down and it is such a quick one right back up and almost to the levels where it was almost prior to this the journal has the piece when the spiggots are opening here today. We have a huge show again today
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Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac there are some well known differences in the current economic environment compared to past environments that make the yield curve a little less of an indicator. The probabilities are pretty high. If you take the unjusted measure, and the other financial variabilities, a year from now, the Second Quarter of 2020, the probability of recession is roughly twothirds. If i make an adjustment, its still high, its not far away. The shaded bars represent recessions. Every time this measure goes over 40 , weve had a recession. And theres a lot of more fundamental reasons to be a little nervous about whats going on out there and why recession risks are high. If you look globally, a number of Major Economies are already in recession or pretty close. Germany, italy, the uk, brexit is complicating things for them. Mexico, brazil, singapore, its small but most open economy on