But first, to our lead. Russian bots were caught to be targeting certain hashtags, including gun control now, gun reform now, and parkland shooting. It is just one way to widen the divide among u. S. Electorate on how to handle gun control, making compromise even more difficult. This has happened with past issues like the nfl anthem debate and the 2016 president ial election. This ultimately led to Robert Muellers indictment of 13 russians. Twitter and facebook are facing renewed pressure to do more to expose these bots and fake accounts. Are the tech giants doing enough . We spoke to the senior policy advisor for the counter extremism project from washington. Not only did you see that russian bots come out in full force after the horrific and tragic events in florida, but you also saw the Robert Mueller indictment, citing facebook thirtysomething times, twitter and youtube all mentioned. The Tech Companies have a number of problems on their hands. The bots, which came out after the fl
Questions about the future are growing. Right, 7 00 a. M. In riyadh. I am yousef gamal eldin. Yvonne i am yvonne man in hong kong. Markets, a word of caution before donald trump takes to congress this week. If we dont hear any concrete details on fiscal spending coming out of the trump administration, markets could be right for a correction. There is plenty going on, as always. Thehighlight has been market jumping 18 in the first day of trade. This is part of vision 2030 and the kingdom, pushing ahead with a series of reforms and want to make Foreign Investors part of the story. You are looking at 4 foreign investor participation in the tadawul. Open it up further, and that is that latest in reforms. In my conversations with ceos, they were telling me that this is great news, but the reality is that performance of a lot of these companies will be closely tied to sentiment, and specifically how oil prices trade, and that will not go away anytime soon. The other big thing is the story ar
That brexit both. We are in mix territory right now. The nasdaq looking into negative territory in the last hour or so. The dow and the s p paring earlier gains. The dow have been as high as 60 point tower, now up by 19 points. This is a range bound trading kind of day. S ps 10look at the sectors, even though it is range bound, seven out of 10 are in the green, telecommunications of the most by 1 . Health Care Consumer discretionary, and materials are the laggards. Withials seeing a selloff global Commodity Prices for the most part sliding. Take a look at what is happening with telecommunications being the biggest leader. It is happening because of sprint, up 7. 5 right now. This is a three and a half month high we are talking about. They say they are looking to raise funds by securitizing the rights to mobile phone frequencies. Under the plan, sprint would sell its usage rights to a company and sell those instruments to institutional investors. At t and verizon also getting a bump of
France Business Leaders get together to push a positive message of the economy ful. Quotes welcome to countdown everybody. 6 00 here in london. Speak to newsmakers from bmw would car world, cars as easy as a oneway bike trip. Is a big day for fiat. The king ofting spain. The European Central Bank Governor refrained from quantitative easing in the eurozone but pledged to reassess the situation early in the new year. With inflation at a fiveyear , will action come too late . Here is what he had to say. Maybe they will start doing qe, but it will be too little, too late. , i think this would be over two years. They also have the right fiscal policy because qe works in the u. S. And u. K. Because we have monetary stimulus and you have backloaded fiscal consolidation. , they call the slowdown, started doing fiscal tax increase. You need to have fiscal stimulus in the eurozone. This will not be enough, you have to have demand. This will come too little too late. Today is at dartmouth profess