A packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with an escalation in tensions between the United States and china the Trump Administration on friday announced new measures to block shipments of semiconductors from chip makers to weiwei technologies in announcing the move the u. S. Commerce Department Said they would be changing the export rule to strategically target while ways acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain u. S. Software and technology adding the announcement cuts off while weighs efforts to undermine u. S. Export controls under the amendment to the rule Foreign Companies that keep that use chip making equipment originating in the us will be required to obtain a license before providing the chips to walk away or any of their affiliates earlier this week the us president and donald trump extended an executive order originally signed in may of 2019 which stopped u. S. Companies from using Telecom Equipment made by company. That pose a National Security risk now this order is now extended until may of 2021 the order has been characterized as a move against Chinese Companies like wall way and z t a. And to me while china is risk directing imports from australia some believe the move is a retaliatory measure against the Australian Governments support of an International Probe into chinas role in the coronavirus pandemic arctic correspondent alex mile of edge has the story. Australia has been hit by chinese trade suspensions and analysts say they know why austria that starting early they d used to. Its d very disappointing for all Chinese People also straight. To. The states course so thats why now we just have to do something. Echoing the us australia is calling for an International Investigation into the origins of covert 19 questioning chinas transparency surrounding the outbreak of the virus some analysts believe china is striking back by banning australian imports both governments however deny the claim and say the beef is about something completely different. Chinese customs on that multiple badges that only products exported to china by certain Australian Companies in violation of the election in quarantine requirements 2 of them were jointly determined by the competent authorities of both an order and we will this is obviously a. Difficult time as we do with one particular city and try to issues that would like to do a dumping as well as the what is effectively the administration around a belief in exports to china whatever the reason behind the chinese trade barriers the land down under will likely feel the pain china is australias. Largest trading partner over a 3rd of the countrys exports went to china in 2017 as for imports australia brings in more goods from china than anywhere else in fact australia is known to be one of the most china reliant developed economies in the world at the center of the current trade battle is beef 80 percent of australias goes to china up barley is also on the hit list china confirmed it is ready to impose a devastating tariff of just over 80 percent on australias barley exports due to anti dumping allegations chinese restrictions could do a lot of harm to the industry since china buys nearly 50 percent of australias barley exports the Australian Government believes other agricultural sectors could be at risk including wine dairy and seafood in all 28 percent of all of australias Agricultural Products are exported to china however its not a one way street a 5th of chinas barley comes from australia in fact australias chinas if the biggest supplier and that includes goods that are critical to chinas energy and manufacturing sectors australias largest exports to china include cool iron ore and natural gas worth 80 1000000000. 00 a year. When it comes to iron ore chinese steel mills or engineer to take particular blends that are strictly a supplies that along with the reality that there are a limited number of competitors so with the resources we get unlikely china would shift away to other suppliers and while they keep pushing for a trying to investigation the ozzies are banking on that we draw very clear lines about things that are very important to us as does the Chinese Government and we respect their loans as we expect allans to be respected australia continues to insist on a china related covert 19 investigation while at the same time calling for treetops with china so far china is not answering the phone and if the issues arent resolved australia might have to brace itself for a severe economic fallout. And for more on these increased tensions with china were joined by boom bust cohost christine thanks for being with us as always the 1st question when we look at all that data that weve just received from alex there how reliant is australia on trade with china. Mention the heavily heavily relied because china is by far australians it is export market and pretty much a 3rd of exports by value so as i just mentioned not only does this include Agricultural Products like beef up our like also over 80000000000. 00 in iron ore and 20000000000. 00 in coal and natural gas exports so in 2008 a stray export of 120000000000. 00 in goods and services to china which is about 7 percent of g. D. P. So now these new trade barriers erected around specifically bar that are concerning for australian farmers who are now forced to kind of diversify and look to expand into other asian markets such as south korea and japan but obviously due to the population the demand cannot be replaced from china that means like so a very interesting quote from the a c. M. P. Read that australians diplomacy might be a bit naive by playing hard with china the us gets the canned. So this entire dispute might actually pave the way for it to increase chinas beef and marly purchases from the u. S. Instead of australia in order to further help meet its purchase obligations on the face on trade deal seems as if china when one door closes for china another door seems to always open we saw that with the us and sawyer i believe it was brazil who ended up sending quite a bit to sawyer after we had those issues so i want to marketplace like that. Thats all i want to do to bring up the 1st story we did today the u. S. Has escalated its bout battle against walk away again whats going on here. Well the german ministration announced new export restrictions friday to further cut off Telecom Giant huawei from the receipt suppliers so it seems like now that this mass panic over the coronavirus has died down the u. S. Wasted no time in picking up exactly where things left off which threatens to ignite a whole new round of u. S. China tensions so this new restrictions stopped shore and semi manufacturers whose operation used u. S. Software and technology from shipping products to huawei without 1st getting a license from u. S. Officials so this is actually gives the u. S. Commerce department a veto over the kinds of technology the hallway can use which is again just like what we said on thursday that u. S. Courts are having distribution of telegrams globally it sets a very dangerous precedent for the u. S. To flex its powers to control what can or cannot be distributed outside of the u. S. So now under these new rules the department can essentially block the sale of semi is manufactured by taiwans i mean Manufacturing Company located in taiwan as it uses cern u. S. Chip making technology so now think about it if youre you if youre a Company Based in say india and you want to use American Technology to manufacture a small portion of the full stack and of course youre also paying for the right to use that technology but now because that one tiny portion that now makes you subject to the u. S. For who you can or cannot sell to even though youre not even a u. S. Based company so at that point it doesnt really make sense and the u. S. Is now flexing its muscles globally in order to have indoor to control detect technology to china kristie quickly we got about 30 seconds left of the segment but how is china actually expected to retaliate to the situation. Well as weve seen from what happened last year any move against huawei which is a crown jewel of beijing being mistreated will result and challenge any actions which could include things like another bout of the care for but also china could also activate the unreliable entities list and that will restrict u. S. Companies including Qualcomm Cisco apple and boeing boeing the huge target right now in china could suspend the purchase of boeing planes the only another major blow to the arctic struggling company so all 4 names are down massively this morning because of that and really boeing cant take another hit as well after all the issues that theyve had not only with the pandemic but obviously the 737 max crisis cohost christiane thank you for breaking that all down for us. Global markets are all down on the week as oil searched 3 percent its highest level in more than a month still Market Sentiment is low after the latest flare up between the u. S. And china over the trumpet ministrations move to block Semiconductor Shipments to while away technologies are at lets start in russia where the ex is in the red for the week a trend you will see in every market coronavirus cases are still rising in the ruble and russian Treasury Bonds hit record highs on friday as oil prices surged but it still wasnt enough to push markets into the green in russia for the week moving over to asian markets all 3 in the red as we talked about the shanghai composite is just slightly in the red however with very little change the week data released on friday showed chinas industrial output is bouncing back and rose 3. 9 percent year over year for the month of april in hong kong the hang seng also down in the week and the with us russia u. S. China tensions rather on the rise and potential tariffs on the table hong kong is watching ages financial hubs a 1st quarter g. D. P. Drop of 8. 9 percent in advance reading this week the worst on record theres also concern that what the virus subsides protests may return now in japan the nikkei is following similar trends with this 1st weekly loss in 3 weeks Investor Sentiment took a hit again and tearing relationships between the u. S. And china and the possibility of another trade war lets move to india where the sensex is also down on the week down 17 percent for the last 3 months now although Telecom Major air tell saw the biggest gains on friday up nearly 3 percent not a good week in india shares in australia are also down for the week the a. S. X. Tumbled and saw its biggest drop since may 1st are concerns about the u. S. Economy and april 600. 1000 jobs were wiped from australias economy and on friday the index did see some gains with major minor b. H. P. Shares jumping more than 3 percent moving to south africa the j. S. C. All share is following the same trend down for the week now lets take a walk over to the other side of the studio and take a look at europe and the americas now its more of the same in europe with the 3 major indices down for the week were to star in france with the cac it was up on friday but it still wasnt enough to make up for the losses now the german dax also down but saw some gains early friday of 11 percent on signs of a recovery in china which helped boost sentiment now that didnt last as the index remained volatile throughout the day europes largest economy saw its sharpest quarterly decline german g. D. P. Shrank by 2. 2 percent in the 1st quarter compared to the final 3 months of 2019 now in the u. K. The footsie 100 is on trend down for the week as the index saw gains on friday as a quad back some of thursdays major losses minors jump between 2. 0 and 3. 4 percent on friday alone lets cross the atlantic to brazil for that. Is also in the red this week now brazils central bank said g. D. P. For march fell by 5. 9 percent the government now expects the economy to shrink by 4. 7 percent this year this would be the largest drop since 1900 when it became began recording that data lets move north to mexico the b. M. V. Is also down on the week as the country sees its peak of coronavirus cases the country plans to reopen its auto construction mining and mining sectors by monday despite record deaths and then going into the u. S. All 3 major indices in the dow s. And p. And nasdaq are down on the week as u. S. Retail sales tank 16 percent in april alone the dow saw the dow actually had its worst week since late. Arch apple qualcomm and boeing all saw declining prices this week and lets finish it out in canada the t. S. A. Finished in the red despite seeing some gains in the Energy Sector which climbed 1. 4 percent while u. S. Crude prices jumped 4. 2 percent a barrel as data continues to come in showing the Economic Impact of the pandemic were going to keep an eye on the volatility within World Markets which is what we are seeing and that is your Global Market walk. Time now for a quick break here because when we return as the cove in 1000 pandemic continues to rage on investors are seeking a hedge and its a conflict between old reliable and the new school we breakdown the fight between gold and big oil for safe haven supremacy as we go to break here the numbers at the close. Seem wrong. Just. To see. This day after. And in detroit because the trail. Went Something Like themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person of those. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. 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And welcome back the corona virus continues to sweep across the globe as some nations are beginning to reopen their economies following the lockdown measures for a closer look on where the globe stands on infections we turn things over to our to correspondent site savagery. Sobran lock down around the country have been lifted in almost every state and businesses are almost universally reopening under restrictions so just allowing fewer customers requiring workers and customers to wear masks and enforcing our social dissident this dancing so right now a handful of states remain on lockdown with state home orders in places and most businesses still closed but lets take a look so illinois and delaware all still have stay at home orders in effect until may 31st and those are the red states now michigan on the other hand will open on may 28th then we have new jersey was going to open up a little bit later and june 5th while d. C. Right here is set to open the latest on june 8th then we have the states that are really opening soon which are the states in blue by mates of between may 18th and the 20th now its not yet clear whether doe states will extend their stay at home orders which will all depend on looking at new cases and deaths next week the same time the restrictions are to be lifted then we have states that are reopening in some areas and those are the ones in our entire you see right here which means governors are allowing counties or regions that meet criteria for slowing the outbreak to open ahead of others meanwhile the hardest hit areas indo states are to remain under Strict Lockdown that a great example of that is new york which has been the head the hardest so red areas like new york city are likely to open much later then we have states that are just a reopening you see all the ones and the green and which means. Businesses are almost universally reopening but under restrictions allowing fewer customers requiring workers and customers to wear masks and enforcing social distance and now the states that are reopening for the most part are said to be open by me 18 adelaide is an brand all of these reopening is right here have come even as the c. D. C. Is warning that reopening too soon might trigger and nother uncontrollable outbreak but moving over to europe. Where countries are determined to put. Back on a map for the summer so if so while the years a list of countries that have already ease restrictions for their citizens and which the restaurants museums and retail open but a europe is different that the u. S. And different in the u. S. Because the e. U. Is really dependent on tourism between the countries for example germany represents 30 percent of the annual tarus in our history so the turn of germans marks an Important Role to recovery for austria so while this long list of countries are no longer on their Strict Lockdown they are still working on opening our borders between the e. U. As to 9 europeans with the e. U. Travel ban on foreigners now extend it until june 15th very few airlines are flying and travel advisories worldwide is warning against all International Travel now the chance of visiting the euro before fall is iffy now also looking at industry thats been hit really hard so far few industries have been hard as badly as tourism now this is the impact of the pandemic on the airline then this represents just the airlines now for example if you look in europe they have lost an estimated 76000000000. 00 on airlines. Latin america has lost about 15000000000 middle east 19 asia pacific 88 perry and africa 4000000000 and north america and 50000000000 so brand taking a snapshot at the tourism losses is really difficult because the data changes as quickly as it spreads but the pandemic continues for several more months the travel the world travel and Tourism Council of the us the trade group that represents major Global Travel companies projects a global loss of 75000000 jobs and 2 point one trillion in revenue brand r. T. Correspondents thank you for keeping us up to date. And with nations around the World Printing massive amounts of currency many investors are looking for safe havens traditionally safe haven investments are assets such as gold and silver but increasingly over the last few years because in another crypto currencies have become a focus for investors so which is truly the better truck choice because were gold joining us now to discuss the school bus coach spence one all right ben i dont know if this is even a fair question for you. Is it because ive been or is it gold or you know what im going to say i want to say its big quite a force but i think theres some there is some statistical evidence to back me up here look listen gold is good no no taking shots here are gold i think theres a lot of people whove invested in gold for a lot of years it has been truly a safe haven asset and gold has been on the rise you know golds up Something Like 16 percent since march so its done pretty well and for folks who are tied into it its obviously a good investment and a lot of nations are tied into gold nations like china certainly buy up a lot of gold so theres no knock on it but if youre talking about just are alive return on investment big cowen is far superior just since march alone because it is increased by 42 percent. Cent and in general if you go back to the fact that big coins really about 11 or 12 years old were talking about thousands of percent return on those initial investments and that quite so it has risen pretty steadily and its been strong now big coin is more volatile than gold in terms of the day to day week to week outlook but again if youre going by larger swaths 3 months 6 months or a year because the way to go well but if were looking at something if we want to use the term safe haven arent we looking at that situation where its less volatile events a bit coy and i mean isnt that why. People like our friend peter schiff i know we always reference it whenever we talk about it all but our friend peter schiff he would say look its not volatile yes youre not going to see the big gains that you see in because but youre also not going to see that big plunge if say you buy an 8000 and drop to 5000 and you know a couple weeks span right so heres heres the problem with whats happened with big quite so if you go back 12 years and you say those initial investors or even people who are buying you know they quit in 2015 or 2016 or even 2017 right people who held on to those investments as a long term actual store of wealth investment they do well the problem is that a lot of people at the end of 2017 were getting into big because they saw it as a money flip they wanted to go and get a return on that investment you know it increased by a 1000 dollars 2003000 dollars and then get back out of it again so they were essentially trying to flip money that is not any kind of store of value if you do that with gold you would never make your money back right that takes too long but thats how people were treating it but if you go back to treating that point as an actual safe haven and not just because by the way but other currencies as well if you treat them a safe havens and say im buying in today lets see what this is worth in 5 years or 10 years i think youre going to be pretty happy ben i want to touch on this because were now seeing some massive Major Players were actually mentioned this earlier like multibillion Dollar Hedge Fund manager Paul Tudor Jones who order of diversifying their portfolios with because. Jones even compared because potential to that of gold in the 1970 s. Why is because considered better by an investor like him i mean obviously he has more money to play with say a day to day and i dont i mean but hes still saying that value. Sure he absolutely is well theres a couple of things you know big queen is superior in a few ways to gold and thats not a big way but in a few pretty specific ways one is the gold is difficult to transport its not very portable obviously because it is because its all digital so its much more liquid and you can and you can move it around if you decide you need to use that point at some point to cash that out and actually use it its much easier to do than gold as well and i think just overall if you look at the future of money storage. Currency in general its easier to use Something Like a big coin or crypto currency compared to gold which takes physical space to store which requires you know more hoops to jump i mean where do you story where do you keep it if you really want to it to protect it i can do that on a flash drive whereas somebody else would have to have a huge safe someplace cohost ben swan thank you very much for breaking that down for us. And thats it for this time because boom bust of the brand new portable t. V. Episode on smartphones through google play on the Apple App Store by searching portable t. V. And you can also catch us as always at youtube dot com slash boom bust r t c n x time. Ts how did a hot tip International Memorial awards are now open for entries all media professionals and eligible whether youre a freelance journalist work for all terms of media or part of a global News Platform to participate in the show published works in video or written for much. Go to award dot altie dot com and then to now. We go to work so you straight home. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics Small Business im show business ill see event. Next geysers line at a level you know they say money to develop for. You could take it easy this is a social plug support diet gum is going to cover my nose a stop to that are going to be. Good food descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose this pet Food Industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out and put food may not be a sofa the people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders theyve got allergies we are actually creating these problems its a huge of a demagogue problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so high. 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