The first ballots are out the door. The election has officially begun. Hes always just such a nice person. Jericka and Steve Hartman meets a School Custodian who takes us On The Road with help from some students. I will never ever forget today. Jericka the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening, and Thank You for joining us on this friday night. Im Jericka Duncan in for norah. We begin with yet another escalation in the fighting between Israel And Hezbollah in lebanon, its neighbor to the north. Israels military says it took out about a dozen top Hezbollah Members in a rare Air Strike in lebanons Capital City today. That includes a top commander, ibrahim aqil. The u. S. Labeled him a specially designated global terrorist and had been offering a 7 Million reward for any information leading to his arrest in connection with the Terrorist Attacks in 1983 that killed Hundreds Of Americans In Beirut. Cbss Chris Livesay leads us off tonight from tel aviv. Chris, good evening. Reporter good
Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Paying more than 1 billion australian to settle a Money Laundering allegation, the largest corporate find never levied in australia. Tiktok drama turns another page, owner bytedance asking a judge to halt the ban in america, Chinese State media slamming u. S. Dirty trip u. S. 30 tricks. We heard from larry kudlow in the last few minutes, downplaying expectations we will be getting any more fiscal stimulus through the pipeline, larry kudlow saying he doesnt think the u. S. Needs another stimulus package and that they will be doing targeted measures only and need to be smart about this measures. This comes after course of fed officials, including chair powell, saying there is a long way to go for the economic rebound, we heard from several others, all saying there is further need of more fiscal stimulus to do that heavy lifting. And that comes after congress ended its pursuit of a bipartisan spending bill and are now focused on replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme expected thisin
Slightly pressured. 650 billion are wiped out in u. S. Equities in one day, yesterday. A lot of it has to do with the dollar. On track for the best week since april. That is hurting sentiment around the region. The aussie dollar is hovering around the july lows. You have more calls for a cut of the cash rate from the rba next month. We see yield heading lower in australia. 105 for yourat offshore renminbi. Slightly stronger for the pboc. Here are where yields are. 67 basis points. We continue to watch whats going on in the aussie 10 year, and the china bond inclusion could happen later on today with that ftse russell. Russell wreste. Could spur inflows into the market. We are watching commodities with the Dollar Strength. The metal is falling off. Silver, copper and aluminum taking the biggest hit in the last 24 hours. The marketre on action we are joined by our mliv strategist in singapore. Question of the day is what i want to start with. What assets suffered most from deleveraging .
Coming up the United Kingdom start a major trade agreement with the worlds 3rd largest economy but details of its 1st post that deal will they remain unclear some republicans failed stimulus this week take a look at the profit in the market then politics but arties. We have a lot to get started. The United Kingdom just clenched its 1st major postbag to deal with the worlds 3rd largest economy well the agreement with japan is a big one for the u. K. Japanese foreign minister confirm the agreement was reached in principle. At 4 pm i had an Online Meeting with International Trade secretary liz truss and we have reached agreement on comprehensive Economic Partnership between japan and the u. K. In principle. In a press release britains trade department stated the deal is expected to increase trade between the 2. Countries by 15200000000. 00 euros while u. K. Businesses will benefit from tariff free trade on 99 percent of exports to japan well the deal still needs approval by Japans Parliam