A Public Health emergency has been declared in delhi due to soaring levels of air pollution. Officials are blaming farmers in neighbouring states who are using fires to clear land. They saythe thick fog has turned the city into a gas chamber. From dehli, Pratiksha Ghildial reports. It is like a scene from a dystopian Science Fiction movie. For a third day in a row now, residents of delhi are inhaling the seasons worst toxic air. In some parts of the city, the levels of pm 2. 5, the tiny particles that can penetrate deep into our lungs, are peaking at more than 500 mcg per cubic metre. The World Health Organization recommends a maximum level of 25. Im in central delhi, just near the Main Business district, and with the iconic india gate behind me. But as you can see, it is barely visible, with a thick blanket of smog around it. It is daytime, but hardly any sunlight is able to percolate the thick layer of smog that shrouds the city. The government says it is doing what it can. It has ba
A Public Health emergency has been declared in delhi due to soaring levels of air pollution. Officials are blaming farmers in neighbouring states who are using fires to clear land. They say the thick fog has turned the city into a gas chamber. From delhi, Pratiksha Ghildial reports. It is like a scene from a dystopian Science Fiction movie. For a third day in a row now, residents of delhi are inhaling the seasons worst toxic air. In some parts of the city, the levels of pm 2. 5, the tiny particles that can penetrate deep into our lungs, are peaking at more than 500 mcg per cubic metre. The World Health Organization recommends a maximum level of 25. Im in central delhi, just near the Main Business district, and with the iconic india gate behind me. But as you can see, it is barely visible, with a thick blanket of smog around it. It is daytime, but hardly any sunlight is able to percolate the thick layer of smog that shrouds the city. The government says it is doing what it can. It has b
Today. Down 15 . Accounting errors being investigated by the fcc and ftc and the doj. A deal has striker down 4 . It is buying a medical device manufacturer based in amsterdam, wright medical. It is selling down a little bit off of that. Guy here in europe, the stock 600 through the 400 line. That is a big deal. It is being driven by the dax today, german autos getting in on the deal. We are waiting for Christine Lagarde to speak, the first time shes going to do so as president of the ecb. Dare i mention it . The rand up by 2 . This to do with the fact that south africa did not get downgraded on friday. Negative from moodys but it did not get downgraded. Peter, lets start with equities. Absolutely going from strength to strength. What message do you take away from that . Is clearly athere loss of liquidity. The fed is injecting cash. The 60 billion per month in tbills they will buy per month on Central Bank Balance sheets. The ecb is back on expansion. Over the many years we have been
Treasury market, youll see the ten year right now is yielding all the way up at 1. 829 30year back at 2. 3 so some much higher levels of yields than weve been used to in recent month. Our top story, a series after attacks that took place over the Weekend Energy prices are soaring. Wti crude at 59. 55 brent at 65. 60 Big Questions for the future of the aramco ipo airline prices, all sorts of things Brian Sullivan is covering the huge moves in the oil prices in houston. But we want to start this morning with hadley gamble in riyadh, saudi arabia good morning, hadley. Good morning, guys. We are now over 48 hours from the largest ever terror attack on saudi arabias Oil Production facilities and still very muted response from not just the government itself but aramco were told in the next few hours we could see more information coming out of the company just about how this happened information about output, at the moments all we really got go on is the reemphasis time and time again on the
Helsinki, Michael Mckee in new york, and Kevin Cirilli down in houston. There was a bloomberg report trumpday that president might have a ceasefire, and the president basically confirmed it. Pm johnson i see a lot of pres. Trump i see a lot of analysts seeing we will do a piecemeal. Easy or hard. Theres a deal or theres not a deal, but it is something we are considering. David there you heard it. It looks a little like the chinese may have responded this morning. Right. Xactly some economists are talking about a mini deal. Theres the prospect of china buying some u. S. Agricultural products and exempting pork and soybeans from additional tariffs. Expectedtowards these talks in october at a high level between both sides, there is a word of caution as well in all of this. China has always been in the market for more agricultural goods. Dating more pork in particular because of swine flu. Theres certainly evidence of some good gestures, but no signs of a major, sustainable breakthrough ju