Speaking out for the first time. Why . This is not a normal election in any way. Certainly not one defined by policy debate. In one fell swoop, Donald Trump laid the groundwork to dispute the 2024 election just as did he in 2020. He threatened mass arrests of election officials, political opponents and critics and it landed like a Thunder Clap in the Saturday Night truth social post. It read in part, quote, when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which will include longterm Prison Sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials. Those involved in Inscrupulous Behavior will be sought out and caught and prosecuted at levels unfortunately never seen before in our country. And now you should know it includes a lot of nonsensical caps. A couple of long words that make me wonder who wrote i
New york. Nine weeks to go until election day, folks. Nine weeks until today and one Week Today to what may be the only President Ial debate to transpire between donald Trump And Vice president Kamala Harris. And then, of course, the start of the socalled final sprint to election day, which finds two President Ial diameter rickly opposed, polar opposite camps. She wants to turn the page on a dark and dysfunctional past decade in politics, her campaign has been met with obama levels of enthusiasm among voters, her rallies drawing massive recordbreaking crowds, her campaign enlisting an army of volunteers, racking up endorsements from all across the political spectrum, as politico reports today, quote, the Vice President has flipped the enthusiasm gap, the Money Gap and the Polling Gap in her favor in the six weeks since she replaced president Joe Biden as the democratic nominee. Now, the other person on the menu behind Door Number two, a candidate who is unable to land on an effective l
Finalizing a blank check operation around the frenzy. Haidi trying to take that winning streak into a seventh straight session. Retrading pretty optimistically. We are seeing gains about. 25 when it comes out the gate. The aussie dollar trading on the back. We are seeing gains for almost two weeks straight now ahead of the federal election. At kiwi dollar is sitting 37. We are seeing almost no change through the open. Have nikkei futures not doing much at the moment. Is at a oneweek high the u. S. Dollar dollar. 15 on year. E than from those that we saw in session. Operations restarting. Speak, theng, as we morning training trading has been lead due to the storm. We are talking about the Tropical Storm being upgraded to a storm signal eight. Options have been delayed. They will make a further later, but there will be no morning a warning isuch lowered. Dominating across the markets. Lets turn to tom mackenzie. We have been talking about trade tensions when it comes to australia. Haidi
Longer the attempt to revive its ancient culture. So that into a straight and journalists have returned home from china after a diplomatic standoff Chinese Police had demanded interviews with the pet and initially bought them from leaving the reporters one from the state broadcaster a. B. C. And the other from the financial review so refuge in australian diplomatic compounds while the safe departure was negotiated this comes after the arrest of another straightly journalist john lay who was working for chinas state owned channel c g t n. That is. Why you. Believe that if there is. A country with genuine rule of law but. 5 this is a whirlwind of some kind of. Got a few good. Well lets bring in mark a straw man in sydney hes the president of australias media union and Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance markets so mike smith and bill birtles back home now but clearly unable to do their job what do you make of all this well were very glad that the 2 of them are back home and safe becaus
Covid vaccine trial has been put on hold after a patient suffered a serious reaction. Australian corporate earnings set for a tough recovery after their worst slump. Will be asking about the challenges ahead including tensions with china. Shery lets get a quick check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures again under pressure. Down 7 10 of 1 . This as we continue to hear more reservations coming from these vaccine makers. We heard from astrazeneca after the close. We already had some skepticism over what happened to those vaccine approvals. We also had the text selloff accelerating. We saw the s p 500 sinking to a four week low. Not to mention ongoing u. S. China tensions. Every sector on the s p 500, 11 of them were down, led by tack and energy. We had the nasdaq composite losing more than 4 during the regular session. Take a look at some of the biggest decliners. We have tesla sinking almost 20 . This after shares were not added to the s p 500. A had news that rival