Last week. Overnight, in asia, japans nikkei topped 40,000 for the first time. Stronger corporate earnings and surge of chip stocks with Artificial Intelligence playing things up. The nikkei above 40,000. If you look back here in the United States, the treasury markets show yields are higher. Tenyear yielding 4. 2 . The price of bitcoin has been impossible to stop lately. You will see it is up another 3. 7 . Above 65,000. It will be a new high. Theoretically. We are watching crude prices inching up toward 80. The high end of the range. 79. 68. Opec plus countries delaying production. That means 2. 2 Million Barrels per day of cuts planned for the First Quarter of the year will continue into the next quarter. We will talk more about this and the implications with helima croft in the 8 00 hour. Congressional leaders released the details of the first six budget bills to keep the government funded. Democrats secured full funding of the special Food Assistance program for women, infants and
The agency for International Development discussed policy towards Central America during an event hosted by the interamerican dialogue. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you to everyone joining us in person and online for this important discussion about Central America. I want to thank our speakers for being here. I know you are in gravely busy. Thank you for being here. I want to start we have molly mccoy he here, and we were just discussing with you, we typically dont include the department of labor, and im so glad you are here with us today. Wally is the associate deputy under secretary for affairs. At the department of labor. We also have mullaney clark a from the Deputy Assistant administration of the bureau of latin america and the caribbean and the usaid. Tremendous work being done in that region. An arab jacob. A close friend of this dialogue, who is Deputy Assistant secretary in the bureau of affairs that the department, and you moved over th
His new comments outside maralago as he pushes ahead to a big Super Tuesday. Also breaking, trumps money man in handcuffs, and pleading guilty, what hes accused of lying about under oath. And the man behind one of the biggest pentagon leaks in years back in court. The sentence for Jack Teixeira has part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs ryan reilly who is covering this unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court. Ryan, what stands out in this decision by the court . I think really that the court wanted to come to a united decision on this that left no doubt here in terms of 90 for the main part of this ruling here. Essentially what it means is that on the day of what was supposed to be the first trial for donald trump in the judge chutkan case in d. C. , originally as it was scheduled, we have this decision from the Supreme Court. The idea of states taking the ballot off the table. It would have been a m
Bringing down the sector with results from quarlcomm overnigh. And bank of england is looking for a 25basis point hike or 50 ill speak with Andrew Bailey at 4 00 ap. M. And wall street futures are coming down with the results from apple and amazon and investors are looking to see how the Performance Division is doing. We have been following Economic Data this morning particularly on the pmi front. Earlier on, we had german and french pmi numbers and now eurozone numbers for july. The figure coming out at 48. 6. The final composite pmi number for eurozone the flash figure had been 48. 9 a slight dip when you look at the services pmi, it is 50. 9. It is expansion territory with the flash number at 51 p. 1 this is the final pmi number that was Flash Services at 50. 9. The flash at 48. 9. Very interesting to take a look at the drawdown with the pmi eurozone activity does ak ex acce accelerate, but a decline with the composite number at 48. 6 versus 48. 9 which is what we have been looking
Salvo trains, ministry campaigns using unmanned vehicles, plus the. These are the founders of clashes between the army and the permanent Rapid Support forces in the mind intends fighting. Incidentally, were going to have the latest on the ground, the so were going to stop about fast moving story from pakistan with the policy or former Prime Minister in wrong con is calling for nationwide protests after being sentenced to 3 years in prison. The court, honda dunn is running in his absence for an legally selling stage gift cons. Now been arrested in the city of lahore. Legal experts say the conviction may end cons chances of running and elections lasers here. Laughter was arrested. The former Prime Minister release to this prerecorded spaces, the weatherbug assign you jumped doug did, but all im up that going to go my fellow practice tonys sledge. Tom, this message will reach you. They would have arrested me and i wont be in jail. I have one request from you, an appeal of what you do know