hello and welcome. many russian citizens are trying to flee the country to escape the military mobilisation announced vladimir putin. tickets for direct flights between russia and serbia have sold out and there are long queues on other border crossings. they are holding referendums in one of four contested areas on whether they want to join the russian federation. the west describes these as a sham. this isjohn kirby. we believe that these will be sham referenda, they will not be legitimate and they will not be free orfairand they are preordained to allow mr putin to say, look, this is russian territory and now, ukrainian attacks are on the motherland, not on ukrainian territory, which is, of course, not true. and as you heard jake sullivan, our national security adviser, say yesterday, we are not going to recognise that and so many other nations around the world aren t going to recognise that. this is nothing more than a ploy by vladimir putin to try to gain, through some
It is a broadly weaker dollar story but it is by stocks, sell bonds. Yields move higher by two basis points. Crude up by 1 despite the fact that opec again upgrades its not opec supply forecast for 2018. Checking in your safety traits, you get a feel for the market is. Dollar lower. That is one of the changes. You wind up having a selloff over europe. The vix a little study. David it is time for the morning brief. At 8 00, the white house is going to be releasing an intersection plan. At 11 30, the administration will post its budget blueprint online. 240 billion for sixmonth bill. First of all, markets, are they stabilizing . The inflation fears. Are they justified . We are going to get a hint when we get the cpi numbers. Its a straight spike. Interest rate spike. A warning on the Interest Rates. Abramovitz, just a look at positioning in the market. Come inside the bloomberg. S p net positions. You are looking at the vix. You can see the stock reversal. We start with a record high and
And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Malaysian police have arrested two more people in connection with the death of kim jong nam, the half brother of north Korean Leader kim jong un. He died after apparently being attacked at the airport in the Malaysian Capital Kuala Lumpur earlier this week. One of those arrested was a woman travelling on an indonesian passport. Sarah corker reports. How, in a crowded airport in broad daylight, was a man poisoned to death . Malaysian police are trying to piece together how kim jong nam died as he waited to board a flight at kuala lumpur airport. These cctv images appear to show one of the suspects. Police have now arrested two women, one carrying a vietnamese passport, the other an indonesian one. South koreas spy agency believes suspected north korean agents are behind the assassination. Translation the cause of murder seems likely to be of poison. But it is to be checked precisely through autopsy. Inside north korea, t
The dow dropped 900 points for the british vote to exit the european union. The dow up 100 percent now sitting at 17, 330. And leaders in the uk are trying to figure out what to do moving forward in the after math of the protect vote. Former conservative member of Parliament Said lead politicians didnt have a plan because they didnt expect victory. I would have thought they web up on the morning of and said, oh, boy. Already 4 million british signatures online. The parliament considers all petitions that get 100,000 signatures or more. No word if a chance of a re voit is Going Forward or not. A popular brand of granola bars is being recalled and they say you can get sick from them. After the break well explain why to be careful with your electronics if heading to brazil. Welcome back. The time now is 7 30 and we want to take a look at weather and traffic and weather is going first. I got the hot spots, robin. Could be baking today too. Here are some of the in your opinions the most ple
Keane. Let the record reflect all the commissioners are here. Item number two, Public Comment on matters appearing were not appearing on the agenda. I would urge if you have comments that relate to the matters on the agenda, to hold them until we get to them because i think this may be a long meeting tonight and id like to minimize the repeat statement. But, anyway, lets go. We have missed you for a few months. Ive missed you. Im patrick. Im not appear to thank commissioner hur over all four years of service on the Ethics Commission as his term is set to expire in early february. Many of herhave been problematic but i would be remiss by not thinking him for his seminal boat when [inaudible] when he cast the Ethics Commission sold vote when behavior had not [inaudible]. As i wrote the time in our analysis which eventually turned out to be offered, i think i think the private practice attorney Stephen Burke [inaudible] before the respective hearings clearly demonstrated the mayors trumpe