In the latest fighting, israel has bombed a building in central beirut. Both Israel And Hezbollah have reported a second day of intense fighting on the ground in southern lebanon. Oil prices jumped on tuesday over supply fears, with markets regAining ground as investors seemingly come to terms with the escalation in tensions. Lets have a quick look at the price of oil, once agAin today, more than a i once agAin today, more than a i increase, the price of oil just below 75 per barrel. It would look at the Share Markets in asia, its an interesting picture were seeing. Japan is seeing a bigjump, Over2 because of the yen has weakened significantly on anticipation of what might happen in the japanese Economy But Hong kong is down over 3 . Big profit taking going on in hong kong, over the last few days there we have seen rapid increases on these markets in response to chinese stimulus so chinese stocks have had a real rise in recent days. Today, profit taking going on there but elsewhere, as
deal promised in the wake of brexiter. in its place, a commitment to co operate on defence, trade, a deal on data protection and ways to regulate new ai technology. the uk prime minister hailed this approach is a better response to the challenges the two countries face. the economic relationship between our two countries has never been stronger. the trade is worth hundreds of billions of pounds, dollars, a year. over a million of our citizens in each other s countries work in each other s countries work in each other s companies. we are the largest investors in each other s countries. and that trade is growing as something like 20% last year. as part of the atlantic declaration, president biden pledged to give uk exporters access to critical minerals needed for electric car batteries. similar to an agreement of the us made with japan. there is no reason why great britain will not play a major role in not only critical material but in investing in united states of america and
the wake of brexiter. in its place, a commitment to co operate on defence, trade, a deal on data protection and ways to regulate new ai technology. the uk prime minister hailed this approach as a better response to the challenges the two countries face. the economic relationship between our two countries has never been stronger. the trade is worth hundreds of billions of pounds, dollars, a year. over a million of our citizens in each other s countries work in each other s companies. in each other s countries. and that trade is growing as something like 20% last year. as part of the atlantic declaration, president biden pledged to give uk exporters access to critical minerals needed for electric car batteries. similar to an agreement the us made with japan. there is no reason why great britain will not play a major role in not only critical material but in investing in united states of america and all of our initiatives relating to the need for critical materials, including ba
Giant has lost another lawsuit related to the weed killer roundup made by recently acquired monsanto now this will cost by a 2000000000. 00 and there are many more lawsuits in the pipeline. And alberta pilly odds say roundup caused their cancer so they sued even though a lot of people believed they wouldnt stand a chance against buyer in court. Weve been finding cancer for. 9 years now holly than me and it was caused by a round of. Its changed our lives forever. We cant do the things that we used to be able to do and we really resent monsanto for that. Their lawyer told the jury and turned all documents prove to monsanto wasnt interested in determining how dangerous its product is now by a has been hit with 2000000000. 00 in compensation an astronomical sum even by
american litigation standards and things could well get much worse for the chemicals giant. This is not the end of this litigation this is the beginning there are tens of thousands of people out there probably 203040000 peop