Director. Kahina here kahina present chair. Ekin here. Ekin present. For the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. Director hinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three the ringing use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. The chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Device places you on. Item number four approval of minutes for the november 21st regular meeting. Thank you directors. Are there any changes to the november 20th one minutes . Yes seeing none, well open Public Comment for anyone in the room on the november 20th one minutes. Seeing none, please open a remote at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the publ
The little of february. The nikkei 225, stronger by. 25 . We did have the first day of the fiscal year for japan. We are seeing investors at the start of this week doing profittaking, particularly when it comes to the performers. We are seeing broad upside as the nikkei comes online. Watching those chip stocks. We had news of further investment from the governor government, looking to make those two nanometer chips. That would be a significant uplift when it comes to those chip and ai and tech related names. Topics moderately higher at this point. Dollaryen trading at the 151 level. 152 is potentially where we see intervention. Of course, new year, same old issues when it comes to the battle between the dollaryen. The same old currency problem confronting traders and the government. There will be Big Questions as to how the intervention will play out, and how long it potentially can last, given we know currency intervention does not tend to be longlasting. Even if it is heavyhanded. In
Plenty of sunshine. As the sun sets before 5 00 p. M. We cool off quickly. 30 degrees by 7 00 or 9 00, once we work our way to midnight light snow is possible. Heres the thing. A very tiny disturbance in ohio, indiana and illinois that could bring us snow showers. Ill have more on the timing around 4 15. Download our nbc washington app for the latest forecast we personally put into the app ourselves, pat. Thanks, amelia. Breaking right now at 4 00, a crime scene inside union station. A man is suffering from multiple stab wounds after being attacked this afternoon inside the station. Its not clear whether it happened on a train platform or near the food court. Right now police say they are looking for a black man around 20yearold wearing a white hat and blue pants. They dont have a motive yet. New details now about a fiery crash in Charles County early this morning that left three people dead. Chopper4 capturing whats of the this torched car after it was towed away from the scene in la
With temperatures in the teens and 20s it could lead to slick spots. Ill have more on this and saturdays snow chance at 6 15. Thank you, amelia. The blast of weather will lead to treacherous driving conditions. For people heading home for the holidays, more than 3,000 flights across the country have been delayed just today. In boston, a jetblue flight skid off the runway at Logan Airport last night. No one was hurt. Its not just a problem at the airport. Theres some trouble spots on the roads as well. Even though the snow has stopped in most places, the temperatures are dropping, and slick spots remain. Now lets turn to a christmas night tragedy off a country road in our area. This fiery crash you see here, this happened in la plata and it left three people dead and their families now are looking for answers. This accident happened early this morning. Tonight police are trying to figure out what caused a mercedes to swerve off rosehill road and burst into flames. As Mark Segraves fathe
Gold was making a bid for 1300. Now coming off that potential. Over,continues to roll separate from the macro events we are seeing there. It is down 0. 6 . David dan coats will testify before the Senate Committee on intelligence. At 10 30, we get weekly crude inventory numbers for the u. S. We expect supplies to fall. President trump continues his infrastructure week, traveling to cincinnati, to talk about investments in waterways. Jonathan we begin in spain co popular has been rescued by santander in a takeover. Seeing debt surging. Joining us to discuss more on the acquisition is Bloomberg Intelligence ajit. It will not make sense to people outside the markets. Market, this makes a lot of sense. Walk me through the junior debt and the senior debt. What has happened is overnight the ecb has market, ta lot of sense. Deemed popular is likely to fail. Debt,eans the tier one the tier to get have been two debt have been written down. Two has been converted into shares and transferred to sa