This friday edition of countdown. Im manus cranny. The markets are moving and the equity markets are causing for thought. What does this mean . Have a look at the dollaryen. The volatility of the nikkei is dropping precipitously down. As we seen yen rise against the dollar. Yothe yen is up to its fourth week of gains. The yen is the strongest currency in the g10. What are the traders saying . Buy the dips in yen and the rallies in dollar. The fx market literally saying japan, if youank of are going to intervene in this market, show us your hand. Wti are both down, but the dollar has a slight rally, up. 8 . It has had its worst two weeks on the down side since april. Williams suggests that september is in play. 0. 5 . Llar index is down above 70 forp nine days in a row. This emerging market index is really taking hold. We are trimming the weekly gain to just. 2 . Llaryuan, leading the declines in the asian currencies. And gold, what do you do next for gold . The dollar market goes sligh
The pound higher. So we are less than 30 minutes away from the European Equity open. It is friday morning. Let me tell you what bloomberg is pointing us to. Lets show you the wti function. You that not all lot is going to happen this morning. We are looking at a fairly flat story. Not much happening on the equity front. It has been an interesting week. A lot of down days followed by a positive session yesterday. Lets show you exactly what is. Appening i think what you can take away is the dollar is backing up a little bit. A little bit of a move on the ,pside for the dollar index which has suffered so much this week. That is a story we will spend a little bit of time talking about. Dollar, oil, a combination of what is happening in the commodity sector. Iron ore, gas, wti trading higher. E had wti trading up the dollar index is rising. Lets get the bloomberg first word news with christine harvey. Christine thanks, guy. John williams says he is for hiking rates and doing it soon. He war
In their first of three debates before the november election will stop mr. Trump i have much better judgment than she does. Theres no question. I have a much better temperament than she has. Mrs. Clinton i think donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. Yes, i did. And you know what else i prepared for . I prepared to be president. And i think that is a good thing. Amy today we expand the debate by giving green Party President ial candidate dr. Jill was barred from participating, a chance to respond to the same questions posed to donald trump and Hillary Clinton. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton faced off monday night in the most anticipated debates in u. S. History. The debate was held at Hofstra University on long island and it was moderated by nbc nightly news anchor lester holt. Ahead of the event, tv Network Executives predicted as many as 100 Millio
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In their first of three debates before the november election will stop mr. Trump i have much better judgment than she does. Theres no question. I have a much better temperament than she has. Mrs. Clinton i think donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. Yes, i did. And you know what else i prepared for . I prepared to be president. And i think that is a good thing. Amy today we expand the debate by giving green Party President ial candidate dr. Jill was barred from participating, a chance to respond to the same questions posed to donald trump and Hillary Clinton. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton faced off monday night in the most anticipated debates in u. S. History. The debate was held at Hofstra University on long island and it was moderated by nbc nightly news anchor lester holt. Ahead of the event, tv Network Executives predicted as many as 100 Millio