The dow industrials up just a few points at the opening bell, 11, maybe, but look at that level. Back to 28,000. Modest small loss, small loss for the s p and also for the nasdaq. So look, everybody, sit back, you are going to watch financial history. History being made in hong kong, too. Sure looks like open rebellion. The street fighting has escalated. Police besieged one of the Main University campuses which they say was being used to make weapons. A Police Officer was hit by an arrow. Ominously, the Peoples Liberation army, chinese troops, in plain clothes, appeared on the streets on saturday. That was taken as a grave warning. Add all this up, it is beijing versus the people of hong kong, communism versus democracy. It is a bloody fight and it is not over. In the United States, the democrats want to remove this president from office because of a phone call. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart okay. Lets talk stock market, shall we . Dow closed in record territory friday, abov
From knife crime londons mayor, sadiq khan, sets out his plan for the School Holidays. Car insurance on the rise average premiums are approaching £800 a year, according to one comparison site. Ill be finding out why, and what you can do about it. And it is since wednesday today, dry start to the week. Will it last that way for the next a0 days or is there actually some rain on the horizon . I will have all of those details here on breakfast. Its monday, the 15th ofjuly. Our top story england have won the mens cricket world cup for the first time in an extraordinary finish to a tense final at lords. The main match ended in a tie, which meant the game went to a super over to decide the winner, and it went down to the very last ball. We all now fully understand what is super over is now. Heres our Sports Correspondent john watson. Englands men, World Champion for the very first time. Proving it on the very first time. Proving it on the biggest stage by the tightest of margins. After seve
Said. And yet there was no negotiation on the other side. I know there was one dollar mentioned, apparently in just. Oh, id give a apparently in jest. Oh, id give a dollar for a wall. It is so hypocritical that we had leader leaders that would not negotiate in good faith, which caused a shutdown. One side willing to negotiate on everything except we have to have some barrier someplace, no negotiation on the other side, and then we come in here with a bill today to condemn shutdowns that were caused by a refusal of one side to negotiate. Like i said, i know thats not the case. Theres an article here that says from the washington examiner, anna, it says that House Republicans say at least 60 democratic lawmakers have indicated in the past few weeks that they support some type of barrier, wall, fence at the u. S. Mexico border. Even as Democratic Leaders say they wont agree to prutchs border wall President Trumps border wall. So it is it is just amazing that that ends up being the climati
Short time ago. He said more than 50 people are feared dead in his state alone and that number is expected to go up. The Kentucky Governor also shared that news at the Press Conference. Lets take that soundbite if we could. And as we are setting here today and this is before day break we believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 kentuckyens end up with 50 to 100 lost lives. The town of mayfield, kentucky was hit hard. A Candle Factory completely leveled by a tornado with 110 employees trapped inside under the debris. Went to Facebook Live to beg for help. Listen to this. Please send us some help. [crying] somebody please send us some help. We are trapped. The stuck on me. We are all in the the whole building fell. So thankfully, the woman who posted that, she posted another video to say she had been rescued. Crews are still working to get others out. Emergency crews in Southern Illinois are working around the clock to Rescue Workers after the roof of a massive Amazon Wareho
Stuart shake it out. Florence and the machine. Okay, lets move on. Good morning, everybody. Its 10 00 eastern. Straight to the money. Look at this on the markets. Weve got the dow industrials now up just over 100 points and nasdaq down 25. Not that much big Time Movement in stock prices this wednesday morning. The 10year treasury yield, we have it at 4. 22 now. The price of oil, 81 per barrel and gas prices by the way are still going up 90, there you have it. Bitcoin, not moving much, 29,059 per coin. Thats the markets on a wednesday morning. Now this, for 40 years, from 1980 to 2020, china was the marvel of the world. It became the workshop of the world. A stellar performer where hundreds of millions were lifted out of abject poverty. That was the mantra, it is deal. Leave us in power and well make you prosperous. That was the deal. It worked. Now its not working and you have to wonder what happens to the deal. The pandemic was the pivot. A long and near total lockdown was imposed and