Responsibly. Welcome to surveillance. I am may originated in london. Betterthanexpected jobs data. We have u. S. Stock and bond cash market closed today for labor day. If you are watching in the u. S. , happy labor day. The nasdaq at a record against the s p 500, of course, as well as a record, what blistering momentum we have seen so far this year. It is sustainable is it sustainable . We will discuss that with our guest this hour. In terms of the bloomberg dollar index, a weekly drop in a month. You see a little bit of weakness in oil, but it is heading for a weaker gain. Toois edging higher, not much momentum on this friday, but Global Equities poised to cap their best week in a month at the end of this week. The first wordo news, we have got breaking news, euro area june services pmi coming at 48. 3, so we did get the german pmi coming in better than expected. It is contractionary territory. Europe, betterthanexpected, but still in retraction mary territory. We have also learned th
On the streets of iran after the countrys military finally admitted it did shoot down a ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board. Iran says it made a disastrous mistake when it wrongly identified the plane as a cruise missile. Demonstrators in tehran have been calling for irans Supreme Leader to resign as our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. Almost from the moment the ukrainian airliner crashed early on wednesday morning, officials in tehran furiously rejected the growing video and intelligence evidence suggesting it had been hit by an iranian missile. Then an abrupt about turn. In a flurry of social media postings, irans president spoke of a disastrous mistake. The foreign minister talked of human error. The ambassador in london apologised for misleading the media with wrong findings. A senior military commander explained that irans air defences had been on high alert after the attack on us bases in iraq and the aircraft was misidentified as an america
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The French ruling class wants to exploit the tragic attack to create a poisonous political atmosphere to divert attention from Macron’s despised pension reform.