worries about growth and demand are outweighing the lift from opec s cuts. samsung reports earnings that seem sluggish domestic data and export curbs from japan. shery: happy fourth of july. u.s. equity and bond markets closed on this independence day holiday. let s see how things are shaping up for asian markets. sophie: while our american friends are enjoying their july 4, futures are heading higher ahead of the jobs report due friday, with s&p futures topping 3000 early. ian stocks set for him a mixed end. in australia, we will be gauging reaction to the government devoting income tax relief to the slowing economy. shery: thanks very paul: thanks very much. selina wang. ina: boris johnson told the conservative party campaign meeting that the split from brussels is key to keeping the u.k. together. he said he would prioritize u.k. warnedver the e.u., but that failure to deliver brexit could split the nation apart. tory members would choose brexit even if it meant breaki
the lower house of brazil s congress has voted in favor of impeaching the president. parliament as the opposition achieved a two thirds majority it needs to move the process onto the senate. a simple majority will see her suspended while she faces and a peach mike trout. while she faces an impeachment trial. ceo stuarttimes says gulliver plans to quit in two years and the bank will first appoint a new chairman to help pick the next chief executive. he took over in 2011 and has scaled back hsbc operations, cut nearly 90,000 jobs under pressure from unhappy shareholders. stocks have fallen about 16% this year. regulators are said to be unconvinced. they want the companies to sell part of their network infrastructure. hutchison will challenge any block in court. you can get more and the rest of the day s news on bloomberg.com. talks in doha dragged longer than planned, still producing no common ground. alex, why no deal? alex: it was the country that decided not to turn up t
york. day 19 of the trump administration, that puts us less than 36 hours away now from what will be robert mueller s 89th appearance before congress. likely the most consequential of his long and consequential career. on wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern, the first of two back-to-back hearings will begin, and it sounded today as if the president might have given this some thought. i m not going to be watching. probably, maybe i might see a little bit of it. i m not going to be watching mueller because you can t take all those bites out of the apple. robert mueller, i know he s conflicted. there s a lot of conflicts he s got, including the fact that his best friend is comey. but he s got conflicts with me, too. he s got big conflicts with me. as you know, he wanted the job of the fbi director. he didn t get it. and we had a business relationship where i said no, and i would say that he wasn t happy. then all of a sudden he gets this position. but you know what, he stil
likely the most consequential of his long and consequential career. on wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern, the first of two back-to-back hearings will begin, and it sounded today as if the president might have given this some thought. i m not going to be watching mueller because you can t take all those bites out of the apple. robert mueller, i know he s conflicted. there s a lot of conflicts he s got, including the fact that his best friend is comey. but he s got conflicts with me, too. he s got big conflicts with me. as you know, he wanted the job of the fbi director. he didn t get it. and we had a business relationship where i said no, and i would say that he wasn t happy. then all of a sudden he gets this position. but you know what, he still ruled and i respect him for it. he still ruled no collusion, no obstruction. again, mueller will testify before two committees starting with house judiciary from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. then it s the house intel committee from
from our nbc headquarters in new york. day 19 of the trump day 914. administration, that puts us less than 36 hours away now from what will be robert mueller s 89th appearance before congress. likely the most consequential of his long and consequential career. on wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern, the first of two back-to-back hearings will begin, and it sounded today as if the president might have given this some thought. i m not going to be watching. probably, maybe i might see a little bit of it. i m not going to be watching mueller because you can t take all those bites out of the apple. robert mueller, i know he s conflicted. there s a lot of conflicts he s got, including the fact that his best friend is comey. but he s got conflicts with me, too. he s got big conflicts with me. as you know, he wanted the job of the fbi director. he didn t get it. and we had a business relationship where i said no, and i would say that he wasn t happy. then all of a sudden he gets