South korea. Infections slow in japan, but young adults becoming more vulnerable. Do infections in new zealand itsend weaken reputation as a covid19 beater. The Prime Minister is delaying the election. Down that is weighing matters in new zealand, but lets look at u. S. Futures. Uncertainty continues to plague markets as we kick off this new session in asia. Uncertainty when it comes to trade with the phase one meetings being postponed indefinitely. We are also getting an indefinite stalemate when it comes to stimulus talks, as well as uncertainty over the future of mailin voting and usps. Theve futures trading on s p, positive 5. 1 . The nikkei 225 up by about. 25 . We are continuing to watch price action on the topics, the worlds best performing index in august as we continue to see the encouraging recovery in industrials and financials. The japanese economy sent to crater by a record in the latest quarter. We are getting gdp numbers later today. In new zealand, back to one of the to
Disclosure explain my cameo in the 1996 clinton fundraising scandals. In 1997 republicans were investigating and Fred Thompson had the committee and i got a call monday from an Investigative Reporter at the boston globe who also happen to be a friend of mine who said i want to know why you attended one of the clinton fundraising coffees and why didnt disclose that to your readers at the wall street journal. I said, what are you talking about . Of course i didnt go to the clinton fundraising coffee, and he says, well, i think a document that says you did. It turned out later that what happened was the white house databases got kind of screwed up because theres a john harwood who worked for the wall street journal, and there was a john harwood who was a speaker the house in rhode island who later went to prison for corruption. And these things get merged i actually know that john harwood. And these things get merged, so he wrote in the paper the next day that i denied having attended alt
The collapse paving the way for shells buyout ofb g group. This is a huge one. Around 70 billion. Coming up well look at which companies in the energy patch could be the next takeover target. Also here come the earnings. Alcoa ready to kick off the parade. Ceo Klaus Kleinfeld will be here exclusively just moments after the aluminum giants results are released. Thats coming up just after the ringing of the closing bell. And Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of multiple charges in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. He could now face the Death Penalty. Well have the latest coming up. By the way, i should point out, as soon as any members of the jury maybe some of the attorneys come out before the press, we will be going there live to boston with all of that. So well keep you up to date on this story as well. Pardon the interruption as we do so. The dow is up 11 points. 17,886 is the level. Look at that russell rebounding nicely from its weak session yesterday. It dragged all the in
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