Up next the chief political reporter for sky News Australia hosted program wrapping up the most recent session of the australian parliament. Many members of the Australian Senate and house of representatives focus the question to Chamber Leaders on a strange relationship with the u. S. And the Trump Administration asking about recent australian diplomatic overtures to the white house and recent shift in american Climate Change policy that clash with australian policies. The parliament was expected to sit next to midmay of 2070. This is 30 minutes. Hello and welcome. Like most important allies of the United States, australia has had a big focus on the duration of the Trump Administration early in his presidency. Thank you, mr. President. My question is also to the attorney general. Can he advised the senate what steps members of the campbell government have taken to engage with the new Trump Administration . The attorney general . Yes, yes, i can. Thank you very much indeed, centered. I
Govement taken to engage with the new Trump Administration . Yes, i can. Thank you very much indeed. In the 58 days since President Trump was inaugurated, the government has been swift to engage with key figures in the new administration. As we know, prime mr. Turnbull has spoken with the president. The outcome of that president was the accepting refugees. An important outcome for australia. Ministers have had face to face meetings with cabinet level counterparts and other senior officials. Bishopnth, for mr. Traveled to washington last month, foreign minister bishop traveled to washington. Also last month, the defense minister held meetings with the new secretary of defense general mattis. This morning i returned from the United States after a visit to washington and new york. During which i had meetings with, among others, attorney general jeff sessions, the new director of the cia, mike pompeo, the director of the fbi, james comey, the white House Homeland Security adviser, and the
Take a look at the china [indiscernible] this is a key gauge of sentiment. Retail investors very much an important part of the equity market on the mainland. We did have chinese small caps falling to a threemonth low on wednesday. This index has lost 3 this year. We see those declines continue this thursday. We arecurrency front, seeing the offshore rate hover around the 100day moving average. This is supposed to ease some slow curves. Earlier, we did hear from a former regulator who said the china should open up the yuan before lifting capital. The currency stability has also seen bets on volatility decline, as you can see from this chart here. More. Oes not expect if overall, it is about stability being the name of the game. Rishaad thank you so much for that. Lets get over to the first word news headlines. Paul china intends to further ease [indiscernible] individual tax burden as part of a broader drive to boost consumption. It is easing the structure of valued added tax come inclu
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Yamma, flash boys fame, claim the market was rigged and former australian Prime Minister, kevin rudd. Plenty to discuss with him, from the siege in sydney to the massacre in pakistan and chapter in signer hacking in light of sony and reported likelihood north korea was behind all of it before we get to that lets begin with the markets. In fact, an historic day lack agent nearly 300point gapes for the dow, second session in a row to put that in perspective we havent seen backtoback gains of this point magnitude since december of 2008, same for the s p 500, add 3 points today on top of about a 30point gain yesterday. Again, thats the first time we have seen that in more than five years. Get into this market rally and closing Ball Exchange with the nasdaq also up nearly 2 again today. Ron mullin camp us, jim lowell from advisory investment, hank smith from Haverford Trust and very own rick santelli. Welcome, everybody. Jim what do you make of this snap back . Too much too soon . No not at