The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this
The british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is Holding Strong on brexit. To delay he tweeted today quote new deal delay. Eal, but no earlier the Prime Minister had promised to send a letter brexit if he couldnt get a deal with the European Union by october 19th. And johnson are set to meet later this month at a theyt in brussels where hope to be able to sign off on an agreement. Deadly clashes continued in iraq today. Forces opened fire on hundreds of antigovernment demonstrators in central killing one protester. Shiite clerictop warned both sides to end the violence. The violence has killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds. Global news 24 hours a day on air and at tick talk on twitter, than 2,700more journalists and analysts in over countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters in vonnie quinn. And live in toronto, im lang. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Were joined by our bloomberg audiences. The top stories were following from around the
That strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Greetings and salutations if the media was working overtime to ignore and excuse the powerful men connected to convicted sex trafficker and pedophile jeffrey abstain theyre working trouble time to direct your attention to the women in this mess while bill and Hillary Clinton were photographed looking all a bit on the wealthy enclave of the hamptons rumors swirled that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson might get back together this is important to note since neither men have been critiqued very seriously in the press while the women who had the bad luck to a photograph taken with or around epstein are getting shellacked most notably. Supermodel Naomi Campbell who was dragged by new daily mail this weekend with a piece that question an upcoming philanthropic a word she is set to receive and also called out her age for no discernible reason whatsoever however it was the gallery of but 9 pictures of the supermodel
Madam who is about as tied up in his crimes as any person can be if you look through everything its pretty its pretty hard to sort of put it together and then when you look at that and theres a numbers penny of also his assistants and these have been documented in a number of ways so you have sarah callan which was one of his assistants Leslie Grosse and marston cool each of these women was reportedly paid over 250000. 00 a year they were given cars travel gifts apparently even regular trips to frederick to have their hair done. So let me ask you do we owe these women a certain amount of benefit of the doubt when it comes to this or is the one time when we really have to go theres a special place in hell for women who dont look out for other women well and this is as. Were seeing even this week weve had the new bombshell release about was the abuses that have been fox news and its a story about how the women sat and watched and what knew what was going on i think we do have to Start Ho
Numbers. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this friday steve weiss, John Najarian, jenny harrington, and rob s seichen. Our heads are spinning, our portfolios gyrating. Was this week a sign, steve, of whats to come absolutely. This is very indicative of what weve seen, and indicative of whats to come there are these camps that there is a recession, there isnt a recession. I dont think it really matters. Markets can go down without a recession, and they do it all comes down to trade at the end of the day, you have to come through that and you have to have some calmness on the trade front. No more tweets if you have that, youll continue to move up. Today was virtually i wouldnt call it a meltup, but every major market is up more than 1 . Relief on the yield front exactly maybe it all, jenny, comes down to yields if yields can rise a little bit, it takes some of the pressure off the stock market do you agree