new york crude down one .4 percent. wti under pressure as opec is supply.to extend its possibly relax some as well. that has spooked some investors. a bitcoin making a recovery after a 10% fall. fortocurrency being routed thanksgiving. bitcoin is down 7% overnight. undercryptocurrencies pressure. some down in excess of 20%. a look at some of the other asset classes. the firstlet s get word news. president trump says he will give up power if the electoral votes for joe biden next month. speaking at the white house, he said he would certainly go although conceding defeat would be a hard thing to do. the president maintained his claims of a regular at he s of irregularities in the election. rigged the election was but has failed to offer evidence. china is likely to miss targets of this year. imports of u.s. products load after hitting a high in september, leaving the four year goal out of reach. as of the end of october, china had bought 70 $5 billion of prescribed goods. 44%
second straight quarter. it flames week international demand and investment in e-commerce. shery: this hour brings another snapshot of the japanese economy. trade data may show the deficit balloon in november. first, let s get you to the market action. australia has come online. sophie: aussie shares opening, a little change to the upside with the benchmark two-point shot of a fresh record. the aussie dollar holding losses after the rba reinforced the inw for its rba rate cut february. pricing at a 59% chance. thailand rates decision. expect it to stay steady as it is stabilizing. we also waiting on japan s november trade data later this morning. nikkei futures pointing lower ahead of that. overall, looking like a soft start of the session after asian shares closed at a high, with fresh eyes across the region including india. right.l ll let s check in with the first word news with jessica summers. jessica: sterling slumped the most since january as fx traders gave a thumbs do
tiffany. stock has been rising in the green market ahead of the open. paul: let s get a check on how we re doing on the markets at the moment. we ve had new zealand trading for a little while now. looking higher by about, there you go, about a third of 1% giving up some of the earlier gains. we saw a very good trading major in the u.s., all ndexes higher, small caps as well. 1%.australia, up .1 of bear in mind with australia, we here. staggered open still performing well after up 2.5%. s gains westpac.ting for brian, the day, c.e.o. buckling to what analysts saw as the inevitable and down in the wake of these money laundering llegations from one of the country s regulators, 23 million separate breaches. his sword and n bringing forward his retirement 2019-2020 st half of as well. trading t of chicago flat, similar story despite i ns that we have seen as mentioned fueled by trade shery.m, shery: the u.s. dollar strengthening broadly on the trajectory d the next year will be a
sleeping on a paperthin yoga mat. nor the vile food, mystery meat drenched in thick, brown sauce. accompanied by starches and carbohydrate in shades of brown and gray. what was the worst thing about being in jail? judith: for me, it was probably being locked up all of the time without any control over my life. we take watches and cell phones for granted. you know what time it is, you know what you re supposed to be doing. jail means a total loss of control. you work on their schedule. you sleep on their schedule. because i was in a kind of high-security jail, it was not the martha stewart camp cupcake kind of jail. there was no access to the outdoors. i think i had about four hours of real, breathable, outdoor air in 85 days. for me, that was the toughest part of the adjustment to my new life. brian: when were you in jail, and where? judith: i was in the alexandria detention center in alexandria virginia. i had to say this, it was extremely professional. it was very well run.
have a chapter, this paragraph. the worst part of jail was not sleeping on a paperthin yoga mat. nor the vile food, mystery meat drenched in thick, brown sauce. accompanied by starches and carbohydrate in shades of brown and gray. what was the worst thing about being in jail? judith: for me, it was probably being locked up all of the time without any control over my life. we take watches and cell phones for granted. you know what time it is, you know what you re supposed to be doing. jail means a total loss of control. you work on their schedule. you sleep on their schedule. because i was in a kind of high-security jail, it was not the martha stewart camp cupcake kind of jail. there was no access to the outdoors. i think i had about four hours of real, breathable, outdoor air in 85 days. for me, that was the toughest part of the adjustment to my new life. brian: when were you in jail and where? judith: i was in the alexandria detention center in alexandria virginia. i had to