The churchgoer who stopped the gunman who opened fire had we not had the Security Team in place, it would have been a much more severe outcome. How he trained for a moment just like this those stories plus ultimatum, a new front in the war over vaccines as one city says to students get your shots or dont come back to school in the new years. Where did my friends go, the streaming wars of the 2020 start with a bang as the central perk gang leaves netflix for a new home. And midnight mystery, drones have been filling the sky over colorado for weeks, but no one knows where they came from, so could it all be leading up to some kind of new years eve stunt . Today, tuesday, december 31st, 2019 from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today, and thank you for joining us on this Tuesday Morning, the last day of 2019, last day of the decade im Sheinelle Jones alongside peter alexander. Savannah and hoda a
The social network is moderated. And this is how your european markets are performing at the start of their trading day. Quite a mixed picture as we await that update from the fed. We will be diving into these numbers and more later in the programme. And well be getting the inside track on a business thats really been enjoying the sweet smell of success. The boss of fragrance firm floral street joins us. Experts say high tempo tunes cause motorists to drive faster and more erratically. Even dangerously. So today we want to know what you listen to on the drive to work and does it affect how you drive. Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Thank you very much forjoining us today. The worlds most powerful central bank, the Us Federal Reserve, is set to unveil its latest decision on Interest Rates later today. Many Analysts Expect the fed which cut rates injuly to cut rates again today by 0. 25 . It comes as President Trump has been heaping pressu
Central bank the Federal Reserve which as expected lower the target range on the key federal funds rate by 25. 00 basis points wall street seems to be giving another thumbs down on the rate cut so looking at this lets go to. Lets go to the jay powell will explain the feds choices theyre cutting rates to boost the economy but heres what a poll said recently about the state of the u. S. Economy. So were not forecasting we were expecting a recession as i mentioned incoming data for the United States suggests that the most likely outgoing outcome i would look for the United States economy is still moderate growth a strong labor market and inflation continuing to back up i went through the numbers so the consumer is in good shape and really theres theres. Or or main expectation is not at all that theyll be a recession. And weve identified this disconnect before but mr powell says theres no expectation of a recession so then why the rate cuts weve been over this contradiction before but its
Interest rates leads our leads our global report today as the Federal Reserve unveils an expected quarter point Interest Rate cut the 2nd in 2019 after 2 days of policy meetings a federal open Market Committee of the u. S. Central bank said it would lower the target rate for the benchmark federal funds rate to between 1. 75 percent and 2 percent in a policy statement the fed Committee Reference quote the implications of Global Developments for the Economic Outlook as well as muted inflation pressures as reasons for the cut 7 of the 10 members of the f o m c voted for the new policy while the fed was meeting it has been an interesting week for the overnight funding market as Interest Rates temporarily rose as high as 10 percent for some transactions on monday and tuesday the uncommon rate jumps cause u. S. Central bank to rein them in stabilizing markets by wednesday morning. And while the u. S. Central bank makes their latest. As he moves their counterpart in the European Union is mark
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