Military capability and the u. S. Military. Its also a testament to the tensive planning between the united states and israel to anticipate and defend against the attack we expected. Make no mistake the united states is fully, fully supportive of israel. That was president Joe Biden addressing a major escalation in the Middle East, irans ballistic Missile Attack on israel. Well bring you the very latest on that developing story in just a moment. And well go through the big moments of last Nights Vice President ial debate, which could be the final matchup between the campaigns before Election Day. And well Haven Update on recovery efforts across the southeast as President Biden prepares to get a firsthand Look Today at some of the devastation. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, october 2nd. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and we have an extraordinarily busy show for you this morning. And well begin with the latest developments out of t
Exploding pagers and now Walkie Talkies across lebanon. Israel says theyre opening a new phase in the war. Whats their strategy . And more leaks from whitehall, with a Bbc Story on Sue Grays pay. Whats going on behind the door of number 10 . Welcome to newsnight, live each night with insight and interviews. Our panel David Yelland, the presenter of the Hit Podcast about crIsIs management, when it hits the fan. Davids a former editor of the sun. Also political commentator Tom Harwood. And it wouldnt be newsnight without nick watt, our political editor. Tonight, hes got fresh intelligence on divIsions in the number 10 operation. But first, were going to look at Israels Strategy following the exploding Walkie Talkies In Lebanon. Yesterday, we covered the story about the exploding pagers. Multiple sources say mossad, the Israeli spy agency, was targeting hezbollah fighters. Daniel levy Is a former official negotiator for the Israeli government in Peace Talks with the palestinians hes now c
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Slightly as the drugmaker did say it will seek that approval for an emergency use for its vaccine by late november. As carl mentioned, wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. September retail sales delivering a big beat. Futures up this morning. Carl david and leslie, a couple of things working in the bulls favor today. Three days down. A little bit of room to bounce back on the upside, david. But futures were slightly negative, then we got that open letter from pfizer, saying that we could be looking at potentially a request for an eua by mid to late november and retail sales with that blowout number for the month and year on year the figures, david, reflect a consumer that has put together a nest egg during the course of the summer, and that is continuing to provide some momentum for the consumer. It is funny, i go back to that interview i did with david berman of maybe six weeks ago already, but somebody who tracks retail sales, more closely perhaps than anyone. And in
Expectations, both stocks falling. We mentioned somebody was listening in on the Conference Call and it caused that trader to hit the sell button we wont tell you which trader it was just yet. Tim, it wasnt you what did you make of the Conference Call . I think you have a case here where clearly the numbers on the headline looked fantastic. But what was really causing that, that was about provisions, that was about credit quality. Which, its strange because we were complaining that we were fearful that the banks had bigger credit issues that were being possibly seen on the headline and therefore they were putting aside the major reserves what jp morgan look, that beat was a combination of some very strong Investment Banking and fic business but alsos the provisions that came down. Thats something we should everyall be encouraged about with banks bus i think there is more where that came from. But there was some sense this was the only reason. Net margins fell 14 basis points i think ba