This morning. 1000 thiss off morning but recovered to a loss of only 100 points at midday only to fall again into the close as margin calls forced traders to sell stocks. Take a look at the close of gold and oil as well. Oil has really bring the big story. You can see it bouncing around. 38. 26 per barrel. Following, falling, 42. 69 per barrel. Thats a huge drop in that is currently closed for trading. Gold futures, curiously unchanged or little changed. 1154. 60. You would think investors fleeing first theyve are havens would look to gold. That did not happen. You would think they would look to the dollar as well. That certainly did not happen. I think one of the most interesting stories of the day was the weakness in the dollar. The dollar index was down at one point 2. 5 . The biggest drop since march 2009. 1. 15 for the euro. Morning asg dip this many people were looking for liquidity and more likely, people expect the fed not to raise rates in september. Lets get more insight on t
Strong faith. Should go away it should. Also coming up tonight that theyre the happiest people in the world and they drive a hard bargain. Would you say that finns are born happy. Right be right since you live in finland do you have the telephone number for santa claus we have of course. To all the nice people. We begin today with a chorus of support british Prime Minister to resign they needed to hear yesterday she said moscow is responsible for what would be the first chemical weapons attack on a nato member ever today allies from washington to berlin to paris came out in unison agreeing with the Prime Minister that russia is responsible International Support its important but real Response Options there are more important tonight it is unclear what the u. K. Plans to do beyond expelling Russian Diplomats from the country nato members are being careful not to use language that would hint at a military response now verbal attacks between moscow and london they have already been launch
world it s actually a country that has a demographic problem or it might have a strong military but it simply is not a world power economic so the russia couldn t sustain a modern conquer the west it simply doesn t have the resources to do that and i don t think it means the west or for needs to go to war over what the west needs to do is put pressure on the russian economy which is which is i said is not very strong it s a resource based oil exporting economy which is not growing fast and they can apply fresh air the russians that way and also the russian government if they were behind this miscalculated i didn t think they they didn t think it would get to this point because they have done things like this before in the past and it hasn t this kind of. i think this is caught them on a bit by surprise and they re scrambling now about how to respond and before we let you go i want to ask you in the one nine hundred seventy s. the u.k.