Previous leader. That is certainly something we are going to watch out for here today when it comes to how that plays out in malaysia. Overall risk sentiment is cautious. David it doesnt help that markets here in hong kong and china, you have liquidity issues look exacerbating these issues. Here are your equity markets that are open. On the lighter side of things. Down about. 25 . Kospi up. 25 . Putting anything else together, we are on a threeweek streak of declines for asian equities. S p futures as you can see,. 5 down, pretty much where it has been holding all morning. Have a look at some other things we are tracking here as well. We talked about dollaryen today, which we will get to in a moment. Southeast asia is looking like this. The latest market to open is indonesia. A big day friday for philippines, reversing some of that now. Malaysia also little higher. Southeast asia as well, mx is your ticker for this benchmark. Also on three weeks of decline. As promised, look at dollary
watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, recovery efforts are underway after the u.s. military shot down a suspected spy balloon over the atlantic ocean. meanwhile beijing is warning it will use necessary steps in similar situations. could this push the u.s. toward a cold war with china or will both sides find a diplomatic solution? after days of suspected spying over the u.s. mainland, a chinese balloon was abruptly shot out of the sky on saturday by a u.s. fighter jet. the balloon was so high up when it was destroyed, the sound of the blast took several seconds to reach the ground. listen to this. and the shoot-down ended days of concern and speculation about the balloon s purpose. chinese insist it was a balloon. the u.s. is confident it was conducting a survey over the ocean and the u.s. issued a fighter jet with heat-seeking missile to destroy it. the debris landed in water that s about 47 feet
united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. spy balloon down. a recovery effort now underway after fighter jets launched a precision strike. cnn has reporters across the globe on the latest developments. plus parts of the u.s. finally warming up, this after record-breaking freezing temperatures, the coldest in decades in some areas. we ll look at when people can see relief. and basketball superstar lebron james continues to chip away at the nba s all-time scoring record. we ll break down his latest game with cnn sports coy wire. you re about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc in the u.s. last week. have a look. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up that it took a few seconds of the sound of the blast
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