In cutting the cost of borrowing for the first time in overfour years. The Federal Reserve have dropped the main Interest Rate in the worlds biggest economy by half a percentage point, bringing it down to between 4. 75 and 5 . A drop larger than many expected, with some wondering now if this reflects the scale of the problems facing the american economy or the success in getting the pace of price rises, inflation, close to the banks targets. The governor of the fed, Jerome Powell says the us economy is in good shape and they intend to keep it that way. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupta has the details. The Federal Reserve has delivered a super sized Interest Rate cut aimed at bolstering the us Labour Market. The 0. 5 percentage cut, the first in over four years, brings its key Interest Rate, the federal funds rate, down to between 4. 75 and 5 . It comes amid Signs Inflation in america is continuing to fall, while the Job Market remains strong, even as unemployment h
It isxt number only, helpful if you put your name and city on the text message. We will get to the calls in a minute. Track of speaking time, and they tweet the minutest spoke for 41 and 16 seconds, while the former Vice President spoke for 37 minutes and 53 seconds. Miller tweets, the pool and therom tonight, wall street journal noticed the audience was almost completely , except for one giggle when the president said wind kills all the birds. This from Chris Brennan who covers politics, it took 41 minutes to get a malarkey reference at tonights debate. And jennifer jacobs, who covers the white house for bloomberg says after the debate, Health Officials spotted four people with no masks, but when approached by the health team, they complied. Six had to be reminded to keep their masks above their noses. And the first lady wearing a mask tonight when she entered, keeping it on during the debate, and after as you can see by this noted the first lady wearing the mask tonight as opposed to
Terrorists overtook American Airlines flight 77 and crashed it into the pentagon. For every american who lived through that day, the september 11 attack is seared into our soul. It was a day filled with shock, horror, sorrow, and righteous fury. I vividly remember when i first heard the news. Was sitting at home watching a Major Business Television Show early that morning. Jack welch, the legendary head of General Electric was about to be interviewed when all of a sudden, they cut away. At first, there were different reports. It was a boiler fire. But i knew that boilers are not at the top of a building. Explosion inhen windows on the world. Nobody really knew what happened. There was great confusion. I was looking out of a window from a building in midtown manhattan directly at the World Trade Center when i saw a second plane at a tremendous speed go into the second tower. Theas then that i realized world was going to change. Be, and longer going to it could never, ever be that innoce
To get a bit more mild . Isli and we will get the weather. Going to get a bit more mild . Isl am going to be talking about the sport, seemed to be having some problems, we will talk about the controversy around Chris Brennan after double the amount of illegal asthma drug was found in his un, chris brunt says he has not broken any rules but the world governing body of cycling has demanded some answers. Lets see what the weather is doing. We got there eventually. The cold has gone, this is the hard work of those beautiful crafted snowmen, it is less cold out there, in fact its turned to rain, some of it quite heavy, but things could be tricky as we go into the evening, more from me coming up in less than half an hour. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im ben brown. He was the candidate endorsed by President Trump, despite facing a string of allegations of Sexual Misconduct, one of them against a 14 Year Old Girl. Well now roy moore has narrowly lost a Crucial Senate race in alabama a
Backed up. Reporter jenkins says the karr was running with brake lights on inside. The bodies of twin 26yearold brothers marquise and Maurice Harper. The brothers seen here in a photo given to us by neighbors. Police say they were shot to death hours before they were found. I got the call 8 00 oclock this morning. Okay. And shot straight down here. Andre, says the harper twins are his nephews. They were good men who helped others. Friends say the brothers grew up on the block and stayed close gathering together neighborhood kids for basketball games as a way to stay out of trouble. I told them stay out the streets. Especially at that time of morning any way. They my nephews. They live the street life. Whatever the case because they was good people. Take their shirt off their back and give it to anybody. They didnt deserve to dike not like that. Reporter police have no motive and no arrests. Now Court Records indicate both twins have a history of arrests including at least one Court App