Hong kong Police Arrest a media tycoon and prominent activist jimmy lai after the u. S. Penalizes the citys chief executive carrie lam. 15 ,s in next digital get dip 50 only to reverse losses. The inflation debate. Investors look ahead to u. S. Ppi and cpi as global debt with subzero yields top 16 trillion. A ton of negative that out there. Bob prince tells bloomberg a pickup in inflation would be mind blowing. Frome under an hour away the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning. Looking at gains across European Equity indexes,. 8 of the gains you seen on the widely traded euro stoxx 50 futures, also on ftse futures. In london. Dax in frankfurt. Looking at games on the u. S. Futures picture. Tradings p minis stronger than nasdaq futures, but you still see green arrows, so it could be a risk on monday to kickoff the week. Lets get the first word news with laura wright in london. Gates billionaire bill says it is mind blowing the u. S. Has not imp
Steps that generate suspicion, so doubts or great resentments between communities who have just begun to build a Fragile Foundation of trust could undermine reconciliation. Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstien reaches a 25 million deal to pay women who accused him of sexual abuse. But he wont have to admit wrongdoing. Neda tawfik in new york will talk us through. And the lowest point on land has been found in antarctica 3,500 kilometres below sea level. Democrats in the us are getting closer to making donald trump the third us president ever to be impeached. The Housejudiciary Committee is debating two articles of impeachment against donald trump abuse of power and obstruction of congress, and they are expected to approve them in the next hour or two. This is what President Trump thinks of the charges. The House Democrats announced these two flimsy pathetic ridiculous articles of impeachment. The House Democrats are walking back from everything they claimant. Claimed. The democrats c
Fed rate cuts and a decade. A busy week also brings policy decisions from tokyo and london. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets closed. The session in the u. S. , the s p 500 and the nasdaq closed at record highs. The biggest jump in three weeks for the s p 500. The biggest in five for the nasdaq. We have twitter and alphabet leading a tech rally on positive results. Gains coming from stronger than expected secondquarter gdp numbers. We will see a rate cut by the fed this week. A very busy week for earnings in the u. S. We are expecting more than 160 companies to report. U. S. Futures unchanged. Lets see how we are setting up for asia. After a bright start, we have seen new zealand grinding steadily lower, looking kind of flat. Nikkei futures, kospi futures also flat. Busy week of earnings out of japan particularly. 157 Companies Reporting this week. Twoy we will hear from among others. 1 5 other kospi will report this week. In australia, the future is looking bright
Im Contessa Brewer. Hope you had a fang taktastic holiday. Lets take a look at futures were shaping up to have a slight hely lower open. Implied futures down 25 points, s p up just slightly here at one point and the nasdaq off by five taking a look at the treasuries and ten year notaes Holding Steady after rising slightly on friday were up about 2. 5 yield on the day. European markets are closed today for boxing day, but taking a look at the asian equities, the nikkei is off by 0. 2 . Shanghai risen by three quarters of a and the kospi has dropped by half a percent. As for the broader markets, oil down just slightly this morning. Wti crude is off by 0. 1 brent almost 0. 2 . And nat gas up they now expect the north sea pipeline to reopen in early january. And that is just tempering somewhat the production cuts weve seen in russia and by he opec taking a look at currencies now, and the dollar is also Holding Steady this morning. Down just slightly a tenth of a percent against the euro up
According to the articles we dont know how much of it is true but he is willing to give him six billion dollars but he wants to actually still be at least the figurehead of his Company Kingdom holdings that well you know heres a guy whos being threatened with torture being tortured threatened with beheading over there in riyadh at the luxury hotel. And you know. You get towels nice scented soap and a threat of a beheading they will check into the ritz and then you know its a special kind of hotel over there five star six star no stars youre dead but you know heres a story that doesnt get coverage in the u. S. Because after all saudi arabia is the princess kingdom of the kind and beautiful of ever benevolent meritocratic saudis who bestow their kindness upon milk and honey on the world not to be confused with the iranians who have never been violently involved in the altercation and decades and weve overthrown by americans in the fiftys but you know there are the bad folks the saudis ar