Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report brexit dealjitters. The pound reverses direction after concerns that the agreement could still be rejected by mps. Wine, whiskey and woolly jumpers. Just a few rejected by mps. Wine, whiskey and woollyjumpers. Just a few of rejected by mps. Wine, whiskey and woolly jumpers. Just a few of the rejected by mps. Wine, whiskey and woollyjumpers. Just a few of the eu exports hit with new us tariffs from today. Hello and welcome to this friday edition of Asia Business report. Lets start with none other than brexit. And that is because the uk Prime Minister says he is very confident that mps will back the new deal he has struck with the eu. That is despite opposition to concessions that Boris Johnson made is despite opposition to concessions that borisjohnson made on customs arrangements into Northern Ireland. It was expected to be and i fed voce vote and is scheduled for this saturday. But news of the agreement sent the pound to a fi
Maria a lot to talk about in terms of china, as well as the fed, impeachment inquiry and the fbi scandal, washington is hitting beijing, the United States restricting victims based on restrictions of muslimminority groups. Two sides with another trade talks tomorrow, growing confrontation between nba and china, commissioner adam silver in an effort to heal relationship, it is a real important relationship, the nba, they rolled over, dagen, adam silver is trying to say, look, we are going to protect the general manager of the Houston Rockets and not apologize for it. Dagen wall street journal writes about this today, nba might be in a stronger position and pushing back than even u. S. Businesses because of the popularity of basketball in the country, the most powerful Sports League and it plays to, quote, the journal plays role in local sporting culture that china without the nba is increasingly unimaginable, so i quote from that, but if the nba, theyre a mess right now in terms of the
The private equity giant 3g capital sold 20 million shares but there is a reason behind it. Stocks are set to open slightly lower well start off with that wework news, of course sort of trickling out yesterday, after the close. A delay in the planned Public Offering that has been so, well, such a focus over the last few weeks. As the price at least that wework thought it would get for its shares has rapidly declined over concerns about its Business Model, over concerns about governance, ever since they actually issued the s1, which mr. Cramer didnt take a fancy too, a lot of this goes back to mr. Adam newman, the man who founded the company and runs it. And this has been a chaotic process. Having reported on it now for a couple of weeks, i can sort of tell you ive never seen anything quite like this in terms of the disarray in preparing for a Public Offering. And i guess what was clear and perhaps funlly made clear to them was they werent ready. They were not ready to actually face pot
The Halftime Report with scott wapner begins right now. Welcome, good to have you with you on a monday joe terranova, we have the chief Investment Officer and adam parker, ceo, and we begin be the markets. The stocks under pressure this hour follow through perhaps from worries that the strong jobs report may keep the fed from keeping Interest Rates as much as some hoped. Throw in some bignamed downgrades and big picture, joe, okay, we said Morgan Stanley, okay, they have been negative no big shock right . Mike wilson sat on this desk and you have got his view. Now they say theyre putting their money where they their mouth is lowest level in five years big reason lower returns. Al plain and simple. Right call or not . I disagree with the call. Disagree with the call because im not certain first of all, Morgan Stanley as a Wealth Management company, im surprised theyre not giving you where are you going with this capital. I dont want to put it in cash, im not emerging market bonds and In
This flight test aims to build on what weve learned from the previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives. I would just like to direct you to the bbc website. We have a live stage at the moment which has reaction to this latest launch by spacex. And these are live pictures that are coming into the bbc newsroom from space. Lets return to our top story this error. This hour. The communities secretary, michael gove, has told mps that the governments new definition of extremism is more precise and rigorous, than the previous one. He said ministers had taken every possible precaution to strike a balance between protecting fundamental rights and safeguarding citizens. Critics have warned the change could inhibit free speech and unfairly target muslim groups. Lets listen to some more of what mr gove said in the house of commons. Across this house, i am sure that we would agree that organisations such as the British National socialist movement and patriotic alternative, w