Assets, the lack of mechanisms of responsibility and punishment makes nonhumans stronger, in this resolution there is a paragraph about the confiscation of russian assets, about the freezing of assets, the transfer to the restoration of ukraine, this is also a recommendation, and i understand that in the future everyone will, well, referring on pares resolution, to make that decision, or. To convince their governments that it is need to do all of peres decisions are of a recommendatory nature, you just need to understand this once and for all, but this decision is important here, by the way, all the decisions that we listed, and on the church, and on the oil refinery, and on putins illegitimacy, all during and after the restoration of ukraine and the confiscation of russian assets to be accepted unanimously. There was not a single delegate who voted against, or at least abstained, and some delegates from some countries simply did not participate, they simply did not vote, but still it
Wilfred frost great to be back together. On vacation like two months. One week, and youve not been here various different places. I am teasing. Happy birthday for last week. And to you. Thanks very much. Lets take in global markets. Have a look at futures which are pointing higher. We mentioned weve got gains around the rest of the world, and thats helping bounce back following last weeks declines small gains friday, for the week as a whole, between 1 and 1. 5 for each of those. All sectors were negative apart from consumer staples, energy was the worst, but in terms of sub sectors, banks stood out as decline. Russell 2000 small caps, lot of people thought it was bearish. The banks down almost 4 because we saw that risk of buying bonds, compressed yields and that hurt the banks performance. Seeing it tick up, below 2. 2 on friday yields rising a bit. You can see trend over august is down Economic Data out of asia overnight. This was a wow number out of japan, gdp grew at annual rate of
From the president S Manufacturing council. P g ramping up its fight against nelson peltz and netflix with a big score in the content war signing shonda rimes away from abc a tweet from ken frazier saying he will resign from the president S Manufacturing council was met almost immediately by a response from the president in which he said frazier would now have time to go lower rip off drug prices and immediate reprisal for what i assume the white house sees as a breach of loyalty. Ken frazier is known as one of the more thoughtful executives out there anyone that followed the drug industry knows that he has a lot of false promise he speaks his mind the president. Hes the president of the United States but it does seem a little, ill advised to just immediately attack him for going and gouging and mr. Frazier as also been a man that tried to hold the line on drug pricing. So it does to me, i mean, who am i to say its unfair it just seems like that mr. Frazier deserves better. He speaks h
Performance since april, reversing the losses that besieged the market last week. The mood on wall street improved on easing tensions with north korea thanks to an opped written by the secretaries of state and defense who said the administration would continue to pursue diplomatic resolutions with pyongyang. Now, add to that a solid quarter of corporate earnings, and stronger than expected growth in japan, and stocks took off. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 135 points to 21,993. The nasdaq gained 83. And the s p 500 advanced 24. Dominic chu watched the rally from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Reporter it didnt last very long. What was shaping up to be a bigger scaled downturn in the stock market ended up fizzling out like its done consistently over the past year. On a Bigger Picture basis, major indices posted declines of around a couple percent only to bounce back today with gains in tech stocks and bank stocks. The general consensus among many traders is that geopo
Political pingpong, the first volley a week ago friday, the republicans house passing a government funding bill that defunded obama care. A week later the senate rejected it. The house tried a slightly different investigation sunday, the senate rejected and then back and forth twice more yesterday. Today republicans sat across from empty chairs saying democrats refuse to negotiate while president obama placed the blame entirely on republicans. This shutdown did not have to happen. Reporter thats why people all over the country are finding government parks and facilities shut down. Bunch a jerks. Its not fair. We have families that they need to support and theyre playing with our livelihood. Its crazy. Holding the government hostage over obama care is ridiculous. Reporter perhaps sensing the anger several Tea Party Republicans told abcs jeff zeleny theyve asked that their paychecks be withheld during the shutdown. Do you feel guilty that your paycheck is still coming and some of your st