Time for Global Exchange and bring you todays market moving news from around the world from hong kong to frankfurt to london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Were going to start with the latest in asia. Trade uncertainty appeared to take its toll on china. The countrys economy losing more steam in october, factory input and fixed asset sales missing estimates and joining me from hong kong is bloombergs chief asian economics correspondent. Give me the rundown of the data weve got. It was a mix across the board with a slump in investment and industrial output miss expectations and on the retail spending part of things we saw the weakness go from auto and turnt and cuggetting the consumer is starting to book now none the pressure of trade war and slowing economy. There were two big takeaways from economists and onen one hand the numbers suggest were probably looking at 6 growth in this Current Quarter and probably shows the
Reopens four years after a gunman killed 69 young people there. Hello there thank you for joining us. Serious questions hang over the security questions in afghanistans capital kabul after a series of bomb blasts, 48 people have been killed in the space of just 24 hours. The latest explosion hit north of kabul airport, an area close to afghanistan buildings and coalition bases. The attacker detonated his explosive vests among a group of recruits stationed outside. 20 were killed and 27 injured. Hours later a powerful truck bomb injured more than wo 40 near a government complex and a military base in a residential area. Afghanistan. s president ashraf ghani has called the truck bombing one of the worst attacks in the country. Jennifer glasse is live for us in kabul. First of all, jennifer, give us an update. The one near airport, what do we know . Reporter barbara we believe it is still ongoing about an hour ago near a government compound apparently in charge of antinarcotics. A lot of
Wooden box. You can see as you mention Pretty Simple straightforward process underway here. There are five voters in Dixville Notch, all five of them expected to cast their ballots here in the moment. Some of them already have a little bit of Musical Chairs going on here. A fascinating tradition here in Dixville Notch saved when one of the residents here moved into the area, becoming the fifth motor here. By doing so though, they still need to fill seven positions, seven jobs essentially on election night, so some of them are doing double duty. Tom tillotson among them, both the town moderator and also the ballot clerk, so now he heads behind the curtain to cast his votes to fill out his ballot, comes back out and you will now see yet another ballot enter the box. That box, by the way, made by state prisoners during the era of the former governor, but very simple process here in Dixville Notch, a process that they are very proud of. It dates back to 1960 neil tillotson, Tom Tillotsons
A smart message. We are getting them out quickly as possible. A wild fire mushrooms in Yosemite National park. They get aboard choppers to get away from the raging flames. And the danger is not over. Plus a sensational twist in amanda knox. Why the woman is threatening legal action over a crime she said she never committed, it is all happening now. But first our top story, the number of u. S. Troops in iraq rises above 1,000 first time. Mission creep is entering into the conversation. Welcome to the success hour of happening now. I am jon scott. I am sheena in for jenna lee. American fighter jets and bombers widening operations against isis in iraq and hitting targets near the dam and near the western border with syria Jennifer Griffin is live in the pentagon. Reporter hi, shannon. The pentagon deny its is mission creep. They expanded military operations to a fourth location. The strikes started as a way to help the yazidis and then the mosul dam and then helping to retake the towns. S
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