Discusses a new report on americans saving for retirement. As always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for november 20. Retiring arizona senator jeff flake was caught on camera saying the Republican Party was toast if it became the party of donald trump and roy moore. The president reacted to senator flake on twitter. We are interested in the reaction from you. We will show you more of what senator flake said he we want to get your thoughts on his sentiments and if you agree or disagree. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. Independents, 202 7488002. You can post on twitter cspanwj. On our40 comments Facebook Page already. If you want to make your comments known there, facebook. Com cspan is where you turn. Abc news picked up the story of senator flake, caught on camera on a hot mic, by a local news affiliate station. The abc news story goes that t
Chinese equities are definitely leading the game. You can see one of the main gauges gaining 2 . We have a little bit of dollar weakness. Pmi isr manufacturing beating estimates. 60. 6. We were in line with expectations. Check out any kind of movement in europe. Look at the german bonds. Coming up up at 11 a. M. London time. The present we going to his outlook for the rest of the year. That includes china but also iran. Midday, the former u. S. Treasury secretary joins us. Towill also be speaking microsoft. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. In iran, the death toll has climbed. 20 people may not die to the demonstrations. In a rare share of displeasure with public leaders. The iraniandefended peoples right to demonstrate. Penceice president mike will visit each of this month. The confirmation came after israeli Prime Minister said its included in the schedule. Its feeling that speculation. Hence had plans to meet with egypts president. The visit was postponed until this month.
Yield he 10 year 2. 93 on the 10 year yield. Pivotrt of the morning to of the weaker dollar has to be dollaryen continuing its move below of critical support levels. Nonetheless, the question of the stronger yen, is it a safe haven play . Is it the hedging . A lot of question marks to what its doing. Companies arent so fine with it. It does not do well for equities. Taylor riggs is here with first word news. Taylor in south florida, a 19yearold former student has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder after the Deadliest School shooting in the u. S. In five years. Cruz open nikolas fire with a semiautomatic weapon. He had been kicked out of the school last year. 15 wounded survivors have been hospitalized. President trump plans to meet with mexicos president in the coming weeks. Relations between the countries are strained. President trump as insisted that mexico pay for the wall on the border. He has demanded mexico agree to changes in the north American Free trade agreeme
Meeting but it does seem hike this really is. He should have said really twice. Or at least three times maybe. This is it. Really really. This is like whackamole. Markets that go down they find a way and its a lot of times not what youre focussing on. Did you think once again well be 8 down . They have a plunge Protection Team like us but its not working at this point. Down 40 the market is over there in three weeks or four weeks. Still up 10 on the year. And 70 in the last 12 months. Its like the wild west. We shouldnt extrapolate everything over here from whats happening over there. But 180 points here or 8 there, maybe thats commensurate. Well wall street journal today, stocks plunged scarier than greece and thats written by the head of emerging markets and global macro at global stanley investment management. They make the point which is hotly debated in the market to what extent does the market crash in china have a Ripple Effect on the chinese economy and that has a Ripple Effect
It is worse than first reported. There estimates between the one million and 25 million employees , their information has been hacked, Sensitive Information that relates to criminal, credit, and families and acquaintances. A lot of people asking how this could have happened. There is a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is grilling the omb, asking for the director to resign. The director of that group is now saying she will not resign. Catherine archuleta said she will not resign, said she is committed to doing the work she wants to do. She and her top yet deputies are being asked to resign because of this huge grief. They are saying chinas responsible, china says they are not. Jonathan elias, abc 7 news. Montgomery county also developing, the fbi says it what it plans to attack americans over the july for holiday. The fbi says they thwarted plans to attack americans over the fourth of july holiday. First, Brianne Carter is on the National Mall with what we know about