Has been a tumultuous quarter. Plus, a rough quarter for ipo shares of ab inbev and Bernie Sanders corporate tax, the 2020 president ial hopeful out with a new plan calling for a tax on companies that pay their ceos way more than their workers it has been a roller coaster ride for stocks in the Third Quarter as we enter the final trading session of q3. Dow and nasdaq aiming for a Third Straight quarterly gain. Mike, awe kn mike, as we know, we went into the month thinking big, bad and scary. I think thats actually the story for the quarter too, the market held itself together and preserved these levels it was at, just about at old highs. Without really a ton turning for the better the way you can look at it is the cost of two and maybe a third fed rate cut was not that steep in the way of suffering through really bad growth or any real stress in the Financial System just yet. So but it does feel tenuous, feels as if the market is sort of maximized what it had to work with to get to thi
British Airways Pilots go on strike for the first time in the airlines history. The canadian teenager, bianca andrayscu, beats Serena Williams to win the us open womens singles title. And our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9. 35 this mornings reviewers are journalist and author Shyama Perera and john crowley the editorial director of first draft. Good morning. In the last few minutes, amber rudd has been giving more details about why shes resigned from the government. She told the Bbcs Andrew Marr she hasnt seen enough evidence that downing street is doing enough to get a brexit deal. And shes angry about the expulsion of what she called good moderate conservative mps. She said she spoke to borisjohnson last night who she said was sad about her decision to quit. Here she is on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. I believe that he is trying to get a deal with the eu. Im i believe that he is trying to get a dealwith the eu. Imjust i believe that he is trying to get a deal with
And coming up at 2. 30 well be taking a look back at the week in parliament. Senior ministers have rejected claims by their former cabinet colleague, amber rudd, that securing a new brexit deal is no longer the governments main objective. Amber rudd, who resigned last night as work and pensions secretary, said up to 90 of the governments time is now spent preparing for a no deal departure at the end of october. She described the expulsion of 21 conservative mps who oppose no deal as an assault on decency and democracy. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. Amber rudd says that when she accepted a post in borisjohnsons cabinet she did so in good faith, believing he wanted a brexit deal, but since then she had seen little evidence the government was putting in enough preparation to get one. There is this huge machine preparing for no deal, which is fine. You might expect 50 50 in terms of work but it is 80 of government time going into preparing for no deal. She now says she wi
2 in the back half of the year. [indiscernible] slow and steady david slow and steady, but there other numbers we will come back to. Now lets go to Jenny Leonard in washington. I have lost track of where we are with the talks. Steven mnuchin saying there back on. The chinese saying they will not retaliate. Are we moving forward or backwards . Jenny it is hard to keep up or anyone, even for us. Heording to the president , said there will be a phone call happening. Whatsoeverdetail will participate in the phone call and if this phone call will move a planned meeting forward that is supposed to happen in september. Whatsoever will participate in the phone that meeting, according to secretary mnuchin, is still on track. We still have no details at all whether the chinese will come here, when that will happen. It is confusing where we are at right now. The chinese saying overnight they will not retaliate. I think it was over interpreted, even by the president. He focused a lot on the positi
Okay, everybody. Last class we were talking about outbreak of the American Revolution. We say all this. Tension is building in the spring of 1775 in april, general thomas gage sends troops into the country side, fighting breaks out at lexington and concord. As night falls about 20,000 americans descend on boston, lay siege to the city in this war nobody wants, been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats call anybody take french . Am i pronouncing it right . Probably. Okay. Close enough. This is april 1775, so right after lexington and concord through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . This is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . Go ahead, isabel . They havent really started fighting it. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else . Any ideas . Okay. This i