Its leader. Once again, oil holding near a 5 1 2year low. Theyre recovering today after yesterdays sliding. Theyre still trading for less than 62 a barrel. Meantime, the drop in oil prices killing bonds. Bonds issued by the staterun industry have now fallen to 55 cents on the dollar. The yield is up to almost 50 , brendan. In washington, the house is set to pass a spending bill today that would avert a Government Shutdown. Yes. Lawmakers also plan to approve a twoday stop gap bill that would give them until saturday to vote on the bill. Heres house speaker, john boehner. This a marv just job. I wish it was done last week, but it wasnt, and so here we are. Im proud of the work that theyve done, look forward to it passing with bipartisan majority in the house and in the coming days. John boehner tanned, rested and ready. Many democrats are not happy with one provision of the bill that would roll back rules aimed at protecting taxpayers against bank losses caused by derivative trades. Dem
Its been a confusing day for british tourists, struggling to work out whether they will need to quarantine themselves when they get back from holiday. From today, scotland, wales, england and Northern Ireland are imposing different quarantine periods for travellers who arrive from portugal and greece. 0ur europe ccrrespondent gavin lee reports from southern portugal. Back to britain from faro airport this morning. Where youre going back to now dictates whether you have to self isolate. Theres been no clarity from the government as to what we were doing. Karen and mick are heading to birmingham. They dont need to quarantine, but they bought early tickets home because they thought they did. Obviously not very happy. We feel as though weve lost two days of our holiday. Its cost us an arm and a leg and. Were just very disappointed. As more and more british tourists return home, its clear to me how confusing many people find the new rules. For example, if youre an english traveller flying t