Foreign purchases. We have the first public impeachment hearing testimony revealing the president s lawyer was digging up dirt in his shadow diplomacy in ukraine. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up when it comes to the start of trading here in sydney. Investors dealt a pretty mixed hand overnight. Stocks closing pretty close to fresh record highs. Still, uncertainty over the lingering trade negotiations continuing to chip away at sentiment. We are hearing potentially the agricultural purchases that had been a solid part of the phase i deal could be in doubt. China reportedly saying if these tariffs are not resolved, they could back away from purchasing more u. S. Soy and pork. Taking a look at the picture, just about 1 10 of 1 . Watching the labor market numbers, typically quite volatile, could be a move in the aussie dollar. New zealand, upside about 1 10 of 1 after the reserve bank of new zealand held on rates for their last meeting of the year somewhat unexpectedly, causing
This morning, we have new aerial video to show you of this firefight. This is burning in a remote part of the merit island preserve on the southwestern tip of the preserve. It is not threatening any buildings or homes on merit island. It is an air are i cant that is step with heavy brush and veg taig, its been difficult to access some of the fire. It has burned 7 acres since 3 00 this morning. The fire is a percent contained according to firefighters so its not spreading out of control, just accessing it has been difficult. They do have hydrant service on merit island, the challenge for firefighters have running fire hoses to get access to the flames, firefighters tell us this fire was started by someone who intentionally cut power poles causing lines to come down and spark the fire. Can you clearly see someone tried to saw into the sides of the power pole there and caused the line to droop, the fire investigator believes someone who did this may have been trying to steal copper wiring
Yeah. All right. Air conditioner last night, crank it up and we all went to bed. Opened up the windows thinking there would an draft. Nothing, sal. Temperatures are continuing to climb, lets get over to steve paulson, we mentioned a few times, its going to be hot. We have . Yes, we have. A both counts using ac on the way in. Mike you are right, there was nothing. Crickets. We do have one more hot day sal and i have been saying since 4 00 this morning. Heat advisories now red flag warning are for the north bay hills, no longer the east bay hills even though there is still pretty good gusts there. Livermore forecast high 98 that is what they were yesterday. Forecast today 101. Tomorrow 84 and degrees in pope valley. 80 in wood acre. Bodega bay is the Concord Pavilion ail i dont know there is mid70s danville. 8degrees. That is a rarity. 90s and 100s today. Way above average. Probably near record setting territory. Vallejo 98. Hayward 99. San carlos 99 degrees. Here are some of the records
1. 5 two year just below that at 1. 478 overnight in china, look at those stocks and youre going to see the nikkei was up by 2 , 2. 1 in shanghai, market there up by a percent and hang seng closed flat and then if youre looking at what has been happening in europe with the early trading taking place this morning, you will see mostly green arrows there. The cac up by. 9 . So is the dax. The ftse down by half a percent. Cnbc has you covered for all of the big global stories that are moving markets today were going to take you to hong kong for the latest comments from carrie lam. An update on the political crisis in the uk over brexit exclusive update on the tariff fallout for small retailers. Lets start in washington now, with the news that the the big news that is moving the markets now, trade talks with china, set to resume next month. What do you got here the news breaking last night out of beijing, the Foreign Ministry issuing a statement, here is the cnbc translation of the Foreign
The democrats failing at scoring political points on a border crisis they did nothing to fiction and they helped create. Criticism is growing about the democrats poor debate performance and their support of policies voters dont want. Democrats showing voters why politicians try so hard to get reelected. Because they would hate to have to make a living under the Big Government plans they want. Many questioning the democrats finally jump a shark . Showing voters they are not fift they are not fit to goves many contenders hit potholes. Former irnd counsel ken starr will join was a scorecard on capitol hill chaos. Robert mueller will testify before lawmakers in just a couple weeks. Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Lets get right to Edward Lawrence in japan with the latest on the g20 and that big meeting. President trump has held a jump of big meetings here. The president was asked a question about in the bilateral meeting would election meddling come up. The presi