Back. Buoyed, they still think they can cobble together a stimulus deal and theyre getting a little closer. Theyre about i think latest indication about 600 billion apart. Democrats coming down to 2. 2 trillion. Such a steal. Such a buy. Republicans have been whispering about 1 1 2 to 1. 6 trillion, who knows. That that is a development few saw coming. Were 24 hours away from the big debate tomorrow. So that could obviously test these markets. So far not too flummoxed about president s taxes. Well see as we get on here. But that tax report we want to lead off front and center ahead of the big coverage planned from tomorrow night. How much the New York Times report, 5000 word plus investigation that goes into the president s taxes over the last couple of decades. The signature of both days developments is that, for a lot of those years he didnt pay any taxes and for at least the latest two years, these do not include the 2018 and 2019 years, he paid 750dollars each for each year. Consid
Breaking right now markets start the week on the back foot. The 10year yield dancing around that 5 . It is pulling back now. Earlier today everything went haywire. Here is the thing, history suggests not to panic but stock and Bond Investors have at least one foot out the door. Ackman, takes a victory lap and covers his bonds short. There is the fed in ad sing the try health of our economy. Is it as strong as a consumers says . They will help us unpack the central issue haunting this market. House speaker soap opera drags on. A new poll Shows Americans are simply over it. I will ask congressman Warren Davidson where things now. What he thinks of the antiestablishment probitcoin in argentina somehow forced into a runoff. My takeaway on americans jettison family norms. One key desire is remains in place. That is great for the soul and our wallet and the nation. All that and more on making money. Charles all right, so theres an old saying the struggle is real and it seems to apply across
Inked a deal. Analysts say it could be worth billions of dollars annually. Red card for fifa for blatter and platini after an ethics probe into past payments. All right. And mentioning whats taking place from within fifa, seth blatter now expected to kick off a News Conference any minute now. Weve got some live pictures coming through from there. The conference arena. Thats taking place in zurich. Well bring you that live when it begins. Just glancing at the u. S. Futures, still a couple of hours away, but were being called a little bit higher on the open this morning following on for a pretty sharp selloff on friday. The dow suffering significantly on fridays trade with a bit of unwinding from some previous gains that otherwise had been made. Here in europe, of course, this morning were looking at just some slight gains on the stoxx europe 600. Our main European Equity markets also, indeed, reflecting this as we head into the shortened holiday week with christmas upon us. Ftse up by.
Analysis. Today has been all about police in the nto protest site admiralty district in hong kong. The streets have been cleared or are being cleared around these Government Offices. Give us an update what is going n right now. This is the area that protestors were fleing from this morning. You can probably see the last of the cleanup here, police cleaning up remains of belong thags belonged to protestors from this area where they had been overnight. You can probably see this tway traffic now flowing along this road. This is actually one of the reasons that kicked off the action that we saw last night and this morning. Protestors had converged in this area and taken over this road. Police had been in confrontations with them yesterday. E saw pepper spray being used. In the tend police did leave most of the protestors on the road. They allowed them to stay on the road. The police came again this morning clearing the road and opening up as you see traffic going through. Protestors fleing
Budge from their positions. Mike viqueira has did he details from the white house. Reporter well, this is the first time the president has sat down congressional leaders since the shutdown began on monday night in to tuesday. Afterwards the leaders came out and spoke to the president used worst, worthwhile, nice, candid to talk about the discussion that lasted for about an hour. After this they took turns talking past each other and on the surface of it anyway, this impasse continues heading in to day three of the Government Shutdown, john boehner came out lamenting the fact that the president will not negotiate. The president candidly admits hes not going to negotiate under threat. But john boehner restated his position. We sent four different proposals over to our december cat colleagues in the senate and they rejected all of they want. We have asked them to conference and sit down try to resolve our differences. They dont want to they will not negotiate. We had a nice conversation,