Flow negative this year. Toss the custom suits. Why Goldman Sachs is ditching its dress code first up, u. S. china trade talks in focus the trade deficit did widen in december to 59. 8 billion. Thats the largest since october of 08 the gap with china widened to an all time record in 2018. Tariffs were meant to have the opposite effect. What is happening here when you speak to an outfit like dollar tree, which imports a gigantic amount, talking about billions of dollars from china, there was just a gigantic belief that the 25 was going to come in so lets just get it in beforehand there is warehouses brimming with chinese stuff that number is, i think, is inflated by a worry about the march tariffs that never occurred and so i think by the way, the railroads did well because of that. Now theyre coming off that, hence that question you asked me, ive been spending a lot of time on, the transport weakness. I can explain this by a bulge in inventories because the dollar tree says it is that
Back to you. Thanks, mike. With begin with security at the border, it will dominate the conversation in washington today. A panel of 17 lawmakers selected with a Border Security compromise will meet for the first time today and its open to the public. Today in the bays tracie potts is live on capitol hill for us and tracie, this is a crucial meeting as a possible shutdown is possible for us next month. It is, marcus, so this is sort of the dream team of politicians who have been put together to try to come up with some way to stop another shutdown in just a few weeks and theyre getting some advice from President Trump on twitter saying if they dont consider some sort of wall or physical barrier, they are wasting their time. Today, the dealmakers get to work. Were going to work out some sensible solutions, and there are many of them that i think we can all support. Reporter their job to come up with a border wall compromise that both parties will support and President Trump will sign, a
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