domestic side of the economy everyone in the same boat but with different detailing thank you carson basque a chief economist at i n g germany now to some of the other global business stories making news. norway's solver and wealth fund lost $21000000000.00 in the 1st half of the year as coronavirus global markets the fund was hit hard by its investment in oil companies which plunged a 33 percent this year as the men for crude oil tumbled. the us government has given the go ahead for controversial oil and gas production in alaska the decision allows for leasing rights to be auctioned by the end of the year environmentalist have said they will challenge the move which permits drilling on an arctic nature reserve in northeast alaska. oracle has entered the race to take over take tops operations in the u.s. canada australia and new zealand u.s. president donald trump has threatened to ban the gap in the u.s. if china's bite downs would keep ownership microsoft and twitter are also interested in to talk. the u.s. will further restrict to always access to american technology including chips it's