thing is going to hide the fact that the benchmark import targets are completely unfeasible there's also a general euphoria across all markets because uncertainty has come down there is another escalation but investors should not be complacent playing into the santa rally asian markets got a slight boost after a surprise improvement in november's and production and retail numbers but this could simply be a seasonal rebound as a result beijing sees no reason to launch major fiscal stimulus yet and is saving its toolbox for a rainy day as china wrapped up its annual economic work conference stressed maintaining the country's steady growth against the backdrop of global financial crisis accelerating profound changes and an increasing sources of turbulent worldwide doubling the size of the economy in 2020 is still at the top priority for the communist party next year. for the boris johnson era as britain's prime minister is starting with

a drop in the pound as a fill more than one percent in early trade tuesday the reason well media reports of the british government will block a delay to a post break the transition period media reports indicate that johnson will add a revision to the brig's that withdrawal agreement bill that would explicitly rule out an extension of the transition period beyond december of 2020 currently the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. by january 31st 2020 the fear is that the new prime minister will steer the country toward a harder bragg's it and that means under the legislation britain would have only 11 months during the transition period for a trade deal to be struck with the e.u. and there are concerns that 11 months is not enough time so let's take a deeper dive here bring in hillary for which board member with the british american business association hilary glad to have you here pleasure ben christie there are concerns about this harder turn towards bragg's it but isn't that what boris johnson has to do he's been pushing for this for some time the markets may not be excited about it but doesn't this at least give them some clarity to.

absolutely ben and this is what he ran on you can't run on something like build the wall or not build a wall you can't run and get it done and not get it done and i don't know if you are christian our audience saw the boris johnson vote conservative actually at the parody on love actually movie but what was really important about that was he actually stood on the doorstep with the placards just like the movie laying out what he was going to do he said this he's had his placards he's had his as yes he has to get it done i actually would defer to the j.p. morgan analyst malcolm barr who said there's about a 25 percent chance that there will still be sort of a no deal hard breck's it. 25 percent is still rather high. and now currently the transition period has the option of being extended for up to 2 years and that both sides in the u.k. and the both agree on this so isn't part of the problem here that there has been a lot of talk about what's going to happen and what will happen but very little has actually materialized here because we're talking about bureaucrats chris you're

absolutely right and this is happened time and time again and that was the problem with may and now boris johnson completely different he has a mandate that you have not seen certainly in the u.k. with an 80 seat majority since 1935 that's when the labor party lost last this march the conservative party hasn't seen this majority since 1907 with margaret thatcher the iron lady so a couple of things with regard to the trade deal tying those 2 points together it took the e.u. 7 year is to do a trade deal with canada so when you juxtapose that with 11 months it's basically left this is what i would say is a very different you've got boris johnson what is boris johnson doing he has got don't trump up a sleeve and he also has china he has the rest of the world to deal with and that's what he's vying for i personally think he's playing hardball and the threat of a even 25 percent is going to do very well in terms of making the e.u. actually do something instead of yes kristie just talking about it as recently as friday president was immediately tweeting out saying let's get the deal done really

between the u.k. and the u.s. right now u.s. is ready for a deal forget about europe is that he's saying yeah we know that this would actually play really well for trump in terms of all his talk about trade deals if you want to get something done boris johnson they seem to be almost kind of birds of a feather in many ways they carry themselves certainly but we know that this is britain's factory sector has suffered its worst quarter since the financial crisis rather a lot of that at all primarily driven by automobiles because several car makers held shutdowns in november and they were worried that britain might crash out of the e.u. by the end of october so we're seeing some of that but again going back to this idea of getting it done at some point. britain has to say we're going to go forward with briggs it because up until now hasn't been that politicians are saying we know we're supposed to but we're not really going to be here that's what the entire election was about the global elites watch it and no trace of a was a remain a fundamentally she took over from david cameron to step down off of the british

public $17400000.00 of them voted for breaks it he sets down theresa may remain a comes in to do the deal and yes they've watered what the people voted for what labor was hoping for and the remains were hoping for that was the this election would prove well see a lot of people still want to remain with the e.u. absolutely not now there is a mandate what i would say is this puts the e.u. really on notice why because the u.k. is going to thrive after everything said and done you think about the pound the pound is actually held relatively steady there was none of the doom and gloom that was predicted remember there was predicted to be something like you know you know hundreds of thousands of jobs lost from the financial center of the financial district they were going to go to dublin they were going to go to frankfurt has not happened so what have we seen the predictions are that the pound is going to hold somewhere between 130 and 140 straight through to june i would think that that's probably pretty accurate 2nd thing you're going to see the e.u. is on notice you know why they have to treat the other countries in the better

because now they're losing $11000000000.00 a year coming from the u.k. one of the largest contributors to the budget if they don't treat germany better they don't treat the dutch better than the swedish better there will be gone they'll be next in the beeswax it and it will be the breakup of the e.u. well it's very likely that it's coming their way but again if it comes down to trump and johnson getting the deal done i would bet on the woods it would which were member of the british american business association thanks so much for your insight pleasure ben. time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return oil bankruptcies are of and prices are down what does this work has looked like for 2020 what does that giant saudi aramco i.p.o. look like moving forward or break. and as we get a break here the numbers at. you

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back it is done boeing has officially stated it will suspend production of its 737 max jetliner in light of 2 deadly crashes that resulted in the deaths of over 340 people as we've reported that 737 max has been grounded by the f.a.a. as well as worldwide well the company is attempting to resolve issues with it well now not much to resolve it appears boeing is giving up on the idea of bringing back the 737 max boeing is the largest manufacturing exporter and one of the nation's top private employers and the max its best selling plane boeing says it will

reassign workers from the max project and does not expect for a lowe's or layoffs the company has also not said how they expected duration of the production shutdown impact suppliers around the world will last. well meanwhile news of the discontinuation of the macs meant that shares were up for european aerospace group airbus airbus shares were up 1.6 percent in early trading while boeing shares were down 2 point one percent. earlier this year in february swiss pharma giant roche tendered an offer to acquire spark therapeutics an all cash transaction sparked therapeutics as a fully integrated commercial company developing gene therapy for genetic diseases . including linus hemophilia and other neurodegenerative diseases the lead acid is a gene therapy for the treatment of hemophilia a and b. and make spark the only biotech company to successfully commercialize a gene therapy for genetic disease in the u.s. together with russia's wallets sparks should be able to accelerate the development

of more gene therapies now this acquisition has been fraught by delays by the antitrust commission but finally monday this $4300000000.00 acquisition has finally been cleared spark has ceased trading on the n.y.s.e. and will continue to operate as an independent company under roche who popped up nearly 2 percent on the news oxygen manufacturer produce pharmaceuticals paid out nearly 11000000000 dollars to the cycler family during the u.s. opioid crisis the latest audit of the pharmaceutical company found that secular family members who own the company shifted the massive sum of money as legal pressure intensified on the opioid maker artie's alex miller held that she joins us over the following the story so alex according to the audit cycle of family members withdrew 8 times more from purdue between 2008 and 2018 compared to the 13 previous years it's an incredible number what can you tell us. the information we have is from alex partners which is a consulting firm they're saying that this money was moved it was shifted to during

one period of time that the one that you just mentioned actually basically the world started the family sort of taking billions out of the company out of purdue and after they were fined $635000000.00 and they were this fund was for misleading marketing about the very addictive drugs that we all know as oxycontin now and the money that was shifted was shifted to family trusts it was also holding companies but 1500000000 of that went offshore so you could see there was a lot of motion going on at the time. that produced fuel that the u.s. open up a democrat when it is that intensified that's when the family started. shifting stuff around that's when they started getting worried about where's our money going to go so the attorney generals believe basically across the country you have attorney generals are talking about this 24 states actually speaking out against the family and a plan by the family to settle $2700.00 a lawsuit against purdue now the attorney generals believe that more needs to be

done to hold the family accountable for what happened here the opioid crisis believe this or not it's blamed for 400000 deaths in the united states that is absolutely massive so that's just a from the year 2000 to now so massachusetts attorney general this is a pretty important here morally healy she was the 1st attorney general to sue or to sue the sackler family the family members and this is what she had to say so today's report confirms what we revealed in our lawsuit the sackler pocketed billions of dollars from purdue while thousands of people died from the addictive drugs this is the very definition of ill gotten gains now that we knew this information we have since october with this has been out but what this report does it tells us when the money was actually moved and this gives you a good idea that the money start to get shifting with the lawsuits started popping up after this fine and obviously somebody got scared that their money might be

taken away so a lot of claims and a lot of raise directed at the family but what are we hearing from the sac i family side. well the sackler family there they're trying to address these $2700.00 lawsuits against them it looks like they've agreed to pay out at least $3000000000.00 also they've stepped on down from the boards with their daughter the board of directors of the company anymore although they do own it. so get this this is the lawsuits are happening in nearly every state and even though they're giving up control of the of the company and it might rise up to about 12000000000 once everything is said and done the cyclers are basically step. back because there is a big butt included here purdue pharma says the family could back out of the deal if the lawsuits against the progress so it's basically a threat if you're going to keep suing us we might not give you any money in the end so one important thing here 2013 if you look at the sackler family on the

forbes list they were among the 20 richest families of the united states of america i'm sure they're up there still and this is a whole thing that i think these attorney generals are really digging into what is this a question of 400000 people dead a family moving billions of dollars you know it's one of those situations that the legal system really has to take a deep look at because something doesn't seem right you know well certainly the idea that you going to cap liability at 2700 people when there are as you said 400000 deaths doesn't seem very likely to correspondent allison hell of it thank you very much. thank you. bankruptcy filings by u.s. energy producers through mid august this year have nearly matched the toll for the whole of 20 teams as oil prices remain under pressure this slowing oil industry sits heavily on the u.s. economy as the boom in the shale added about 10 percent of growth to u.s.

economy in the last 5 years now the shale sector has just started generating cash flow but many small to mid-size shale farms are already pulling back on production targets amid weak price production and now banks have also begun trimming back credit lines for american shale producers further undercutting the industry that's been struggling to regain investor confidence for the 1st time since 2016 producer surveys expect to see declines at least 15 producers have already filed for bankruptcy this year and market values across the industry have plunged an average of 21 percent many producers are now struggling under huge debt loads accumulated earlier but other issues have also played industry as well many have turned to lower quality sites and others have begin drilling wells too close together resulting in a loss of overall performance industry surveys show that a handful of large companies are on the edge of bankruptcy as there is about $15000000000.00 of outstanding debt at risk and investors remain dubious that further opec cuts can boost prices with more on the state of the welcome david

mckelvey nice c.e.o. of mcilvaine a financial group now david when we talk about oil generally talk more broadly about the whole sector but let's be very specific here who is feeling the most pain along the supply chain and why is it the drillers the exploration refineries production pipelines or the offshore guys who's the most lever and who's the most exposed here. you service companies are dealing with the toughest times right now i think they've got the most acute pain you've got over capacity and there's just not the jobs that they are used to doing so they still have to service debt and that's a tough thing to do. taking a lot of dad in your business slows down that's why they're in the crocs they're in the midst of some tough times so a lot of these majors are trying to insulate themselves from a downturn they've expanded their wealth to refinery networks in order to control costs and sustain periods of low prices but it's kind of a catch $22.00 is it not that in expanding they've also kind of over leveraged and now carry huge amounts of debt so how can their vertical integration help them and

can they whether 2020. yeah we're not very concerned with the majors and obviously you have in absolute terms large amounts of debt but if you look at their capitalization to debt ratios they're actually right in line with other non oil type companies so i think again you've got to go down the food chain to see where the real weakness is and where the likelihood of greater consolidation would be and also where you might see further bankruptcy so the pressure is not on the majors and you can see this across the share prices if you're looking at a a c. drill or a neighbors or a trans ocean these are places where the pressure has been more acute so back to the earlier question yes it's the service companies it's also your offshore guys it is also some of your drillers as well one of the e.m.p. guys a lot of these oil plays haven't really materialized the way that we expected in the projections a lot of them have claimed that the drilling sites have not resulted in what they expected to do again and a lot of them have been over leverage and over expanded in terms of just gaining

market share and in the permian basin but those players have not really materialized at all because these shell plays have been underwhelming to say the least. 2018 was sort of rampant speculation in the permian basin that's where you saw kind of a and overbidding of a lot of asset prices and already you're seeing you know groups like chevron this last week writing off $1011000000000.00 and i think we'll see more of that as 2020 . fold so yeah i think the overpaying in the permian is now hurting some of your oil companies but where you do see. i think positive mergers and acquisitions you're seeing things in alaska you're seeing things in in the eagle ford you're seeing things much more broadly distributed in 2019 in the koran track for between 85100000000000 dollars and mergers and acquisitions so real i guess i think where you overpaid significantly was where there was a lot of speculative energy in the permian last year in the year before so as he

has said that we can probably expect to see a way of america among the smaller players right now in the permian basin and some of the other shale regions so who are some of the right acquisition targets and who's portfolio and what they fit into. that's a good question it's a good question i think time will tell as we get into 2020 coming back to what you're saying in terms of financing i think one of the key things that is happening here at the end of the year are based loan redetermination zz and as you see these loan rates redetermined that's where you're seeing a lot of pressure is is folks who thought they had x. amount of production it's not going to be that much production is not as strong as as you mentioned kristie and so that's where all of a sudden we're beginning to see a squeeze and where the opportunity lies on the acquisition side is really where the pressure is born as we come through the 4th quarter that the irony is not only do we have a tightening in bank credit but we also have the loose in central bank credit

probably in well not quite world history but if you have to go back to the 4th quarter of 2007 to see the amount of free flow of capital and cheapness of capital in the capital markets and that's particularly relevant to the oil market because you're finding hedge funds and private equity funds find workarounds it's no longer a liquidity from the banking industry but they're even finding access to liquidity in the repo market if you can believe that yeah let's shift just a little bit sticking with commodities but over to gold it's obviously done very well this year but it really cannot hold a torch to palladium the best for me in precious metal on. $29000.00 that's up more than 40 percent this year primarily use for automobile catalytic converters right and if so is that what's behind the rally why is it doing so well in $21.00 thing. then i think you're looking at spec that of mania i mean it's a little bit like looking at nikkei stocks 2530 years ago or even bitcoin just a few years ago did it justify those high levels maybe in the fullness of time will

see that it did but at the fundamentals driving the market don't support these levels you're looking at speculative mania in part because you had a significant curtailment of auto production so whether it's china the largest market in the world or in europe in the u.s. we see the same kind of declining trends in terms of auto sales so how do you get to 1900 to get to 2000 you get that you get there on a speculative manic basis so that's what i think you see there unjustifiable above about 13501400 it's just momentum at this point how to traders miss it if you care about fundamentals you would have missed it because this is nothing but moment so you're better bet in terms of value at this point gold silver as you mentioned 2015 percent 10 percent in the case of silver these are much better values on a relative an absolute basis as well it's not like it's something that with an emerging technology catalytic converters it's like are they even going to exist in 20 years they did not have any amount of any financial thanks so much for your insight. thank you ben thank you christie. well billboard has announced

a major change to the way a rank album charts that it's really going to completely shift the music industry that's because billboard will now include a you tube streams in its billboard $200.00 album charts starting early next year and it's not just you tube that's going to be included here billboard will also include apple spotify title and the evo billboard charts of historically been seen as a barometer of success within the music industry you know that we should mention that since 2013 video streams have counted toward billboard song specific charts but now again will count toward the billboard 200 so it's probably a good thing for a lot of artists but i'm not sure it necessarily helps in terms of independent artists which kind of you tube and spotify and some of these emerging you know break away from the music industry technology should have taken us there and they just kind of become a regurgitation of mainstream too and i think a lot of this comes into the fact that music video production quality has gotten a lot better now so it becomes a lot more difficult for these independent songwriters an artist to be able to

match something that's professionally put together by one hundreds of thousands of people be seen in the winter song now a music video can talk about low low in video very successful that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on directv channel 321 dish network channel 284 streaming 247 on pluto t.v. it is the free t.v. ad channel 279. that you give them. the next time. to participate in pietschmann process against donald trump continues apace the framers of the constitution warned of the chief executive was an extreme remedy. are the democrats and the corporate media trivializing the impeachment process are

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