The french carmaker grapples with the auto market slowdown. This follows as nissan reported a 99 plunge in profit. Plans to carve out phone towers into a separate unit and will consider an ipo to cut that. Plus, delay delivery. Amazon forecasts income below expectations. Alphabet and intel jump in late trading after beating expectations. Good morning. Matt good morning to you, less than a halfhour hour to the start of trading. Take a look at the bunds. This is something i was talking about. You saw a reversal in the bond yields. As we were heading into the ecb meeting, yields were coming down. Investors were looking for the possibility of a cut. Then we interviewed the german finance minister where i circled in red. And you saw but yields go up again. Thats because he says there is no crisis. He sees it coming back to the economy once these manmade problems, as he describes them, are solved. Meaning once the char not u. S. U. S. China trade war is over, he sees it coming back to german
A chile expert executive will be responsible to rebuild hong kong economy to engage as widely as possible to listen as attentively as possible so my people scriven says and try to help hong kong to move on but the protests are carried on. The turmoil in hong kong has put pressure on stocks all over the world investors are already rattled at the u. S. China trade war and worries of capital flight from hong kong have added to woes. Hundreds of flights have been scrapped and more disruption is expected. To big question among protesters as much as investors is how long beijings patience for dissent can be tested. Some experts say hong kongs future will be decided by beijing. And the unrest in hong kong has investors worried across the region that includes singapore the city state has already cut as a no growth forecast in the wake of the u. S. China trade disputes its singapore hoddle as an export harm it is highly sensitive to external shocks its now expected to grow between 0 and one per
This is another location where the police have moved very quickly. They are blocking the road, there are protesters who have been surrounding the police station. All of this is happening very quickly. The Police Disperse them quickly but the protesters just move on. For the moment it looks as though they will pursue them down a side street. The tear gas warning goes up again. But the protesters have largely gone. In their place are regular bystanders in what is a busy shopping street and they are angry. A young woman has just been arrested. That only fuels more anger. Here we are not seeing protesters but ordinary people on nathan road, who have lined up to watch the police trying to take control. You can hear them shouting abuse at the police. This has been going on for the last half hour. The police dont seem to know what to do. Facing another furious crowd. The police eventually retreat. But even now, the saturday night drama here isnt over. This is proving to be a tenacious protest
To rebuild hong kong economy to engage as widely as possible to listen as attentively as possible so my people scream and says and try to help hong kong to move on but the protests are carried on. The turmoil in hong kong has put pressure on stocks all over the world investors are already rattled at the u. S. China trade war and worries that capital flight from hong kong have added to was. Hundreds of flights have been scrapped and more disruption is expected to big question among protesters as much as investors is how long beijings patience for dissent can be tested. Some experts say hong kong future will be decided by beijing. And the unrest in hong kong has investors worried across the region that includes singapore the city state has already cut as a no growth forecast in the wake of the u. S. China trade disputes its singapore hadan as an export hard it is highly sensitive to external shocks its now expected to grow between 0 and one percent only this year those figures marcus sha
Thank you for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this awhile. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we were in this fractured state after the 2016 election, will democrats and republicans be able to Work Together on anything, people said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things built, sees himself as a builder. We were supposed to get something. We havent gotten something yet, and well, policy always proves more complicated in practice than in promise. And thats the complexity of this, why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody that follows stuff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. Senior fellow, contributing editor and columnist at new york post. Nick lawyer is of heritage foundation, focuses on energy, environment, regulatory issues. A Deputy Director of the thomas rowe institute for Economic Policy studies. Finally,