Against interfering in its internal affairs after criticism of the new security law in hong kong and devastation in southern japan doesnt scale as heavy rains and mudslides submerged roads and buildings. The u. K. Has set its sights on those involved in the murder of saudi journalist jamal its unveiled its 1st uni lateral sanction since leaving the European Union 49. 00 individuals and organizations have been sanctioned under the governments new system to punish human rights offenders russian authorities implicated in the death of lawyer magnitsky have also been talk at it sonia goal reports. A long awaited action against abuses of human rights the measures announced by the foreign secretary committed the u. K. To holding perpetrators of mistreatment to account. This government and this house sends a very clear message on behalf of the british people that those with blood on their hands the thugs of despots the henchmen a dictator is will not be free to waltz into this country to buy p
We are seeing the dow and is picked s p 500 in negative territory. Lets get the latest from julie hyman. Julie we have stocks pausing as at these levels and going sideways at this point after the dow and s p earlier touched records. It seems as though there is a drag from the bit from the material stocks. That is the group that is doing the worst. As we have had stocks continue their rally, we have also seen bond yields creep up a little bit. Dividendmeant the yields of stocks is no longer as competitive with the dividend yield of the s p 500. That is the whitehall im. It is looking at the ratio between the two. You are seeing what it is looking like for japanese stocks. This is the first time we have seen that yield for the s p 500 ,elow that of the bond yields the First Time Since 2011. Interesting phenomenon. Those taking a look at Telecom Stocks as we await the verdict from the sec on Net Neutrality. As we heard shery talking about, that meeting has been adjourned temporarily. You
Yes. Did you expect them to act quickly . Yes. There was urgency to the information. Yes. Mark he did not want to fire him until 18 days later. Another round of protests in venezuela has left at least three more people dead and many others injured. Buildings were set on fire, tear gas was unleashed during the unrest, occurring on a daily basis for seven weeks. The president shows no intention of conceding to his opponents demands. The violent demonstrations have left more than three dozen people dead. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live in new york, i am julia chatterley. Scarlet i have scarlet fu. Joe i am joe weisenthal. We are 30 minutes from the close of trading. Julia oil easing from alltime highs. Joe what did you miss . Scarlet working to contain a report that donald trump shared intelligence with russian officials. In washington, meeting with the. Urkish pres
Mcconnell wants the tax cut to be revenue neutral and dont add to the debt. That would surely slow down the effort. And now to the farce, the Clinton Campaign manager believes the election was rigged by russian meddling and wants to overturn the vote and undermine trumps presidency. Trump himself, well, three top jobs filled today and hes off on another leg of his thank you tour. Varney company is about to begin. Well, im going to call it the trump cando cabinet and its coming together. Rick perry will need the energy department. Rex tillersons the secretary of states job. The announcement with a typical tweets. Ive chosen one of the truly great Business Leaders of the world, Rex Tillerson, exxonmobil to be secretary of state. The president elect added his third Goldman Sachs executive to the administration. Goldmans president gary cone, the economic council. Well have this shortly. The dow will have another higher opening. Closer to 20,000. Oil, a nice pop yesterday, up 53 a barrel. T
Bayers choice. Bed. Nto rejects the rejects the bid. Where less than a half hour wait from the European Equity market we are less than a halfhour away from the European Equity market open. Your stocks up. We are pulled up another percent this morning. Equities overnight in asia doing very well. I was looking at the hang seng index in hong kong. It was up by 2. 5 standard deviations above the mean. Doing incredibly well. The dollar showing a little bit of weakness. The oil showing gain. That should give some more boost to todays market. Lets get to first word news amin. Aslinda haslinda italys biggest bank. That is after assets to improve capital lost the support of investors. He will depart once a successor has been named. He and the board agrees there was a need for a management change. Bayer says it is still optimistic that its pursuit of monsanto will succeed, despite the 62 billion bid being rejected. Offer syrizaare undervalues the company. Monsantos shares grows in new york. Baye