But the 52 billion man, Mike Bloomberg, was not in the debate. All in all, it was rather subdued affair, especially sense it came just hours after another day of impeachment hearings. Oh, how different from the highly rated Republican Debate four years ago that featured donald j. Trump. Thats that. The debate. Lets get to the money. Macys profit went up, sales went down. The retailers very much in focus as the Holiday Season gears up. So far, Department Stores like macys have been struggling. They are largely based in malls and malls are getting clobbered by online shopping, amazon in particular. Macys stock will be down about 4 . Look at this. Charles schwab, number one discount broker, talking about a merger with number two, ameritrade. Looks like they will become a very big bank that offers free stock trading. The whole brokerage world, really shaken up. Both of those stocks up significantly. Overall, the market is still yanked around by trade headlines. The president says this, the
Are using. Britain heading for its 1st december in action in almost a century a very forest johnson hopes will break the brics it deadlock. Was in doha with all the days sport bangladesh stalled around the shock about a hot sun has been banned for 2 years on 3 trips with corruption charges that some more later in the program. Break in lebanon where Prime Minister saad hariri has submitted his resignation to the president after 13 days of antigovernment protests harry reid says hes reached a dead end in dealing with the unprecedented demonstrations and violence but have paralyzed the country so that honda has been following the days developments from beirut. Protesters welcoming the decision by the Prime Minister to resign there are celebrating in the streets there calling this a victory welcoming a welcome 1st step this is what they have been demanding for the past 13 days demanding a new government is formed a government made up of technocrats which are not or ministers who are not al
Down by politicians hong kongs chief executive carrie lamb is forced to delay her annual policy speech. And im li harding with sports the olympic marathons in tokyo are being moved to avoid the summer heat and barcelonas match with real madrid could be switched because of the protests in the city. President has promised to keep fighting in syria until all these countries goals have been based rich of Tayyip Erdogan is shrugging off International Pressure for an immediate cease fire and the battle on the ground goes on the town of wrestle and remains the front line of the conflict theres gunfire and heavy artillery that have been heard across the city as turkish and Kurdish Forces battle for control diplomatic if its to end the fighting role so intensifying u. S. Vice president mike pence and secretary of state. A travelling to turkey to push for a cease fire the u. S. Delegation is due to meet the turkish president. With President Trumps threat of more sanctions if theyre ignored but t
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Commemorations are under way in poland to mark the moment germany invaded the country, sparking the start of the second world war. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The eus lead brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says the uk has come to a moment of truth on how it will leave the European Union. He again rejected borisjohnsons demand to remove the irish backstop, the policy intended to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland, and said he wasnt optimistic about avoiding a no deal scenario. His comments come after thousands of people took to the streets across the uk yesterday to protest against the Prime Ministers decision to suspend parliament. Joining me now is our Political Correspondent susana medonca. As viewers on bbc one will have seen this morning, cabinet ministers and late per shadow cabinet ministers have been out making the case ahead of what is a very important week at westminster. Michel barniers intervention will have added to the complications. I think it undermi