Economies reopening against rising chinau. S. Tensions. They prepare another budget. In theavirus controversy u. K. Boris johnsons top aide refuses to resign, breaking the governments lockdown rules. Will come to the program. Manus and yousef are still off with the markets closed for the eid holiday. We were just discussing the focus on the reopening story, rather than the tensions between beijing and washington. Forulus is in focus investors, whether thats for singapore or japan now. Feelgoodit is a tuesday, never mind the gdp targets for the year slashed, with a 7 contraction. The worst performance ever since independence back in 1965. Here is how its looking for the asian markets. Nikkei 225 up by 2. 4 . We talked about how japan will be reopening its economy. This is a state of emergency and all of the country, not just japan. Giving a boost to the nikkei 225. Surging by 5 . Up one point 6 . Consumer confidence rebounding from 11 years lows 11 year lows. Well below 100. It outnumbe
Go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee today, josh brown, john ageri, Jenny Harrington we begin the markets where all eyes are on the white house. That meeting on trade with those new tariffs looming. Watching it all. The latest, including the president ial tweet sending stocks surging the best gains since october u. S. Negotiators have offered to cancel the december 15 tariffs and cut existing tariffs on 360 billion in chinese goods in half. Thats according to two people close to talks my sources offer a couple caveats on the offer reported this morning by the wall street journal. It was made to the chinese last week clearly, a lot of time in between then and now second, talks have been taking place at the deputy level, with the ambassador absorbed by developments on usmca. Lighthizer will brief republican senators on that deal at a lunch meeting today on capitol hill. President trump appears ebullient saying the
Raised more than 100 million, to fight a. L. S. And pete fratese has succumb to that disease. Good morning. Its early start. If youre counting, 55 days to the iowa caucuses. Breaking overnight, House Democrats plan to unveil two articles of impeachment against President Trump this morning. We expect to learn more at a News Conference set for 9 00 a. M. Eastern. What we do know, according to sources, there will be one article on abuse of power and another on obstruction of congress. We are in a place where the leadership of our committees of jurisdiction have gotten the last input of it and the q a the question and answer, from the Minority Side from all of this will make a recommendation how we will go forward. At a closed door meeting, democrats debated whether to include obstruction of justice. Getting the votes to pass that separate count could be too difficult. But references to the mueller allegations will likely be woven in to show a larger pattern of misconduct by the president.
Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm on capitol hill in washington, where the Housejudiciary Committee has been debating for the last hour or so the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After what will be a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. If the president is impeached, the senate would hold a trial in the new year. With me is our north america correspondent peter bowes. Peter, tell us more about how this debate is unfolding. Well, this is a debate, as we expected, that is very impassioned from both sides. The democrats saying that President Trump has committed constitutional crimes and should, in effect, face the music. These two articles of impeachment, the charges against the president that he abused his position as president , and abuse of power, and also tried to essentially lock the process to withhold information power, and also tried to essentially lock the
Environment. In washington dc, Thejudiciary Committee of the us house of representatives has been debating for around two hours now the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After a spirited discussion theyll most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. The house is dominated by the democrats. If the president is impeached, there will be a trial in the senate controlled by the republicans in the new year. Our north america correspondent peter bowes joins us now. Talk us through the process here. This is a very political process. And extremely political process did again what is happening right now is that the Judiciary Committee are considering in detail those two articles of impeachment, essentially the charge sheet against donald trump. But it is political because at this stage it is the democrats who have the majority of the Judiciary Committee and indeed in the house of representatives so the end of the day it seems that when they get