Her departure are fine hiring from the white house. Thank you so much for joining us. Cnns special coverage of this trial continues now with jake tapper on the lead cnns Breaking News welcome to the lean Object Tapper in manhattan, just outside the new york criminal courthouse thats where i spend much of the day inside forum number 59 watching witnesses, including Stormy Daniels testifying the donald j. Trump hush money cover up. Proud. They have moved on to other there witnesses since Stormy Daniels including madeline western out, whos desk was right outside Trumps Oval Office todays testimony is due to end at any moment. Oh, it just has ended for the day. Im told. Well, this hour im going to walk you through what i saw, what i sketched, what comes next, the highly skilled Courtroom Sketch Artists its christine cornell, whose work youre going to look at right now and jane rosenburg, they set the scene today as trumps lawyers crossexamined porn star and director Stormy Daniels. There c
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Mixed day today european equities after the benchmark stock exchange. Investors are waiting for the outcome of the tax vote in the u. S. Equities. Mixed day for fx. Look at the yields rise. Ireland, france, belgian, germany, commodities giving you a feel of the market today. Some Business Confidence out of germany, unexpectedly weakening its december. The gains remains near its alltime high, as you can see from the line right there, respecting the fact that the economy has excelled this year amid robust domestic spending and recovery in global trade. Debt surging this year, taking benchmark yields to the lowest level since april of 2015. To spanish levels, theres more credit defaultts swaps so says richard hodges. If movies follows fitch in upgrading the sovereign debt next year, Sovereign Rating next year, he says the swap should narrow the gap widths main as well gap with spain as well. Portugal versus spain, a 10 year yield spread is the white line. Very quickly, this is the oneday
Apartments were impact. Jennifer harding let us up. Just the fact that we get that little bit of water in the kitchen faucet has been great but not everyone is like that. A lot of the residents i have spoken to have had absolutely no water. Reporter while shes not completely out of the clear. You cannot flush the toilet , so that is where things get a little bit, you know, hairy. Reporter downstairs on the corner of her building we have watched restaurant regulars at parx read the closed sign before turning away. Just wanted something for quit lunch for shopping but, we will have to go so where else. Reporter that is the old pipe sit ago above ground right there. City officials are hoping to have water turn back on within the next few hours. Live from rittenhouse square, chante lens for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you so much. Also tonight, it was a pretty nice day today, but that first day of winter but were watching a possible storm, just in time for christmas. Meteorologist kate bil
Putting together the session. A great deal of interest to ge capital capital, and i think to any issuer who makes regular use of the bond markets. The whole question of liquidity and if it doesnt function as it should means the bond markets do not function efficiently. Representing issuers or the viewpoint, which is what im most familiar with, to the extent that the bond markets cease to be effective, more important, a source of capitol, which can be flexible in its form, and allows issuers like ge capitol to hedge its Balance Sheet risk. The reason i say that is concerns about liquidity, having impact on secondary Market Pricing and also on the new issue premium, which investors quite rightly and logically demand to take on in order to buy a new bond transaction. To the extent there is a disconnect in the market, and those issues are elevated. It translates 2krek9ly into a higher cost for funds. And by further extension it can affect what business is chosen to go into or not, and ulti