That position mirrors that ofjoe biden, who said back in march that us Steel Corp should remain a domestically owned american firm. Us steel it should remain american owned and american operated. In other News Volkswagen is considering Closing Factories in germany to cut costs. Its an unprecedented move and sets up a showdown with powerful unions. The Auto Maker which employs around 680,000 staff is struggling with its passenger car brand. Profits are getting squeezed amid the transition to electric vehicles and a consumer spending slowdown. A four Day Conference to attract foreign investment to russia is about to begin in the countrys eastern most major city vladivostok. The eastern economic forum is into its ninth year. Last year, more than 40 Billion in new agreements were signed, with 7,000 delegates in attendance. The largest contingents came from china, India And Southeast asia. Professor 0ng Kian Ming from Taylors University spoke to us about the importance of The Forum. Russia
U. N. This on the day trump almost conceded defeat, but vows to in his words, carry on the good fight. The situation in paris with police under increasing scrutiny. This incident, a demonstration by migrants broken up as a controversial new security bill was voted through. This is life in paris. Thank you very much for being with us. Emmanuel macron told france the covid19 lockdown will be relax from saturday. More shops will be allowed to open for longer hours. Up to 30 people will be able to gather in one place. In a speech, the french president detailed how france would leave lockdown at setpoints, december 15 is earmarked as the lockdown, but a curfew will take its place. Christmas eve and new years eve, traditional celebratory nights in france, will be open for visiting. January could see ski stations open for business. Restaurants and gyms could reopen, too. All with no deterioration of the covid figures. 1955 new cases of covid19 in france. 1005 new deaths over the past 20 fire
A hectic month. There is a lot of uncertainty with regard to the world in general. Jonathan jim b juncker joining us now. What a week in this market. The equity market breaking down by a little more than one and a half percent on the s p 500 but it is the absence of the bid in the bond market hitting the attention of you and i and everyone else. We are selling off, not driving yields lower. Yields are higher by four basis points. What is the signal you take away from that . Jim a worrisome signal. You are right, the fed is doing qe, buying 120 billion dollars of bonds a month, the stock market flirting with a 10 correction. That has all the hallmarks of a classic risk off rally, that bond yields should be falling as treasuries catch a bid as everyone rushes into safety. None of that is happening. The take away the market is still worried about uncertainty over next weeks election, uncertainty about the rising coronavirus, and potential or more fiscal stimulus and or inflation. All of t
Cooperman taking on trump over the Federal Reserve in times of crisis Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning and welcome to the show im dominic chu. Announcer to Brian Sullivan. With me the entire hour, peter bookfar wiright now stock futur indicate what could be a nice open to the upside, about 175 points within the last hour we were up 400 to 500 points implied. Well see if that moves. The Dow Jones Futures have been going from losses all the way to gains. At one point we had a range of 1100 its been a volatile, possibly preshadowing the market. Tenyear government yields we gone down to 1. 0 3 year, setting the record twoyear treasury notes, 1. 2 . The session low for americanbased crude is 43. You can see 45. 53 the last trade there. We have seen a bit of a downside move in the last hour or two lets watch whats happening a rebound in under way, in asia and europe as well as investors hope for action from global Central Banks around the coronavirus. Matt taylor is in singa
Slasheed to skash costs and jobs. And in hong kong, police and protesters clash again after a week of relative calm. Shery consumer inflationshery . Year cpi numbers. Growth of 0. 2 percent. But this is missing expectations that we would see a rise of 0. 7 . Despite the missive estimates, we are seeing growth from the previous month when the inflation number was flat. Month on month, disappointing 0. 6 . A contraction of estimates were for a slight growth. This is contraction from the previous month of october. We know south korea faces challenges including negative base effects. Last year in 2018, we saw a higher food and crude Oil Prices Back then. The year on year number remains under pressure so we are seeing growth of only 0. 2 for the month of november. Those expecting thirdquarter gdp numbers out of south korea on tuesday, after the bank of korea kept the rate unchanged. Inflation numbers looking not too strong of the moment. Australia has just kicked off trading. Sophie aussie