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Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a ron striking back with iran striking back after the u. S. Air strike that killed top iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. For more, simon foxman joins us from doha. What is the latest on the retaliatory attacks on the part of iran . Big question has been whether or not there are any casualties caused by this attack. We just saw, as i was sitting down, it appears u. S. Officials are saying no casualties. That they were informed of this before it happened. If there were casualties, it would have caused a much stronger u. S. Response, the thinking goes. If not, perhaps we could see ourselves moving towards some type of negotiation, some sort of diplomatic resolution. The ayatollah, and he the Ayatollah Khomein ....
Cycle during that period. We havent spoken a great deal about impeachment. I am curious as to the decision to take questions. This was originally scheduled as an address to the nation. Now it is turning into a press conference. Why . Kevin that is how the president prefers that. You saw a preview of it at the state Department Yesterday with secretary pompeo. The president and Administration Officials and private conversations, and what i would predict to be increasingly public conversations over the next day or so, are going to push back on the notion that the strike against soleimani was not the right course of action. This is someone that even democrats have noted is someone who is a bad actor. The democrats are saying they disagree with how the administration conducted it. The president has suggested that new evidence is going to be released that will illus ....
Irans generals. VowSupreme Leader retaliation. Equities dip read u. S. Futures hardest hit, pointing to big losses at the start of trading. Golden touch a fourmonth high as investors flee to safety. Just under an hour away from the trading insh equity europe. We dont have the big drops now we are starting to an european futures that we do in u. S. Futures. Ramping up bigger and bigger losses. Ftse, only half of the sarah down only 0. 5 down. That is like the u. S. If you take a look at s p and nasdaq futures, you are going to see substantial losses. Dow futures down almost 2. 5 0. 25 . Interesting the way we have not seen asian equity markets showing up. The overall level of flights to safety. Money going into old. Gold. Around disruptions commodities expected. We have not seen equity markets selling off wholesale. We have some inflation data out of turkey. Iskey is one market that underperforming. We will speak to colleagues abou ....
Performing sectors investors search for safety following the attack seeking safe haven assets like gold and yen. Hitting record highs on the first trading day of the year. Good morning and welcome to street signs. Our top story today, the pentagon confirmed irans top leader Qassim Soleimani was killed he was the head of the quds force. The generals death marks an escalation in tensions between tehran and washington following the u. S. Attacbeing attacked at embassy. We are seeing brent up to 68. 44 you can see about 3. 3 wti, 63 now up equal amounts about 3 . Looking at some Major Oil Companies as well. You can see a lot of those are positioned in the uk you can see bp Royal Dutch Shell up about 3 . On the flip side, weve got travel Companies Trading de ....
We are down across the board these would be losses for the week that will end four weeks of gain weve seen up to this point. Does this count as the first week of 2020, even though it is only two days . We could look at the fiveday thing and if it is up, we could say that is the first week this is up as we see crude oil prices jumping we see that wti is up 4. 1 the gain to 63. 72 a barrel ice brent up by 4. 3 Natural Gas Prices up. Crude is the real focus as tensions are on the rise in the middle east. The market is up 30 from last year that is a place for people to look this year as for gains. We are moving crude from 60. We are not moving from 62 but based on the tensions rising you think about the heighten tensions and what this will mean for the potential repercussions in the middle east the idea of additional strikes of any ships going through the straits of hormuz, people will be watching that closely theyve been blessing ....