We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk
Sex crime prosecutors. They are work on a uniformed approach to the legal review. Nearly 70 women have come forward with allegations about Harvey Weinstein who is being investigated by new york city prosecutors as well. Over 200 women have accused james toback of misconduct. These men have denied any wrong doing. An alabama judge running for u. S. Senate says that he is not going anywhere. Even after Sexual Misconduct claims. Four women say judge roy moore made advances toward them when they were teens and he was in his 30s but he says not true. He say it is allegations are meant to derail his campaign. More than that, it hurts me personally, because you know, im a father, i have one daughter. I have five granddaughters. Moores younger brother jerry also denied the allegations an even likened the situation to the persecution of jesus. Alabama state auditor also brought up the bible saying mary was a teenager and joseph was an adult carpenter. They became the parents of jesus. Theres ju
The women said they plan to attend the Union Meeting next wednesday at which they will try to get the members present to approve their candidacy. Devin fehely kpix 5. A judge says abbe area woman whose bay area woman whose adopted son killed a sheriff deputy can keep her home. She put up her home for her sons bail but he failed to show up in court on drug and weapons charges. And months later he got into a shootout that killed the deputy. The suspect later died of his wounds. Today the judge said the mother and attorney went to Great Lengths to help authorities track down her son and theres no evidence she had a role in his decision to skip bail. A group of men are filing a lawsuit against San Jose Police accusing the department of singling out gay men during sting operations. Len ramirez on white lake on why they claim cops cross the line. Reporter this has been a case that is ongoing in san jose for the last three years. The federal lawsuit is now including accusing the san jose pd o
Numbers. Will get through the markets in just a moment. 106. 2. Is that it is below expectations. If you look at the difference. The 108. 5 that we were expecting. Down with some of we break it down with some of the numbers. Ceos expected future revenue the future is at 100. 1. It might be a little bit of postbrexit. It might be a little bit of august lull. It may have an impact on fifas money. Ifos janet yellen speech will be taken live at 4 00 p. M. London time, a specific index come i put in there because volume in asia, you can see overall stocks gained volume volumes are 30 lower than the previous month. Brent crude, 49. A good measure to see where that is at 138. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra the death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit italy yesterday has written to 247. It is according to the Civil Protection agency. Flattened that hit the center of three ancient towns. There is fear that more baby buried in the rubble. Investors pull
Executives at both companies concluded the merger would not fly. The founder of a Technology Consulting firm says regulators are out of touch. I think the government is Old Technology and an old point of view. I think the f. C. C. And d. O. J. Have shown there are anachronisms when it comes to dealing with new technology and that kind of progress. Mark on wednesday, officials from the federal Communications Commission told both companies they were opposed saying the deal did not help consumers. They plan to call an administrative hearing which would have dragged the process out for months. The british trader blamed in the flash crash is still in jail. He has not come up with bail which was set at 7. 5 million. We are learning more about the trader. In an email last year to british regulators, he defended his rapidfire success has the benefit of a quick mind and that the trade secret we canceled were simply because he changed his mind not because he was engaging in illegal market manipu