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Chiles camps and shanty towns the stock illustration of unocal the key driving mass protests against the government of president Sebastian Pinera. Im Anthony Howard welcome to the program we begin in washington where u. S. President donald trump has criticized the impeachment hearings calling them a disc rice and in the barracks mint is comments came as 2 senior officials who listened to trumps july phone call with these ukrainian counterpart a lot of missile lansky expressed their concerns about the conversation the former special envoy to ukraine could focus told the probe you should have realized that trump was holding up military aid to give to pressure the country to investigate political rival joe but. 1st to testify on tuesday 2 officials who listened in on that controversial phone call newton and Connell Alexander van man the Top White House expert on ukraine alongside Jennifer Williams an adviser to Vice President mike pence both told the panel they had concerns about the call
Low currencyhe volatility. The british pound is stronger, but very fractionally, up 0. 2 versus the u. S. Dollar before the election. Incremental moves on trade. Lets get to the latest now. Bloomberg reporting that u. S. Tariffs set to take effect on sunday will be delayed, according to chinese officials. Meantime, House Democrats said they will back the usmca trade deal and are planning a vote next week. Rep. Pelosi there is no question that this trade agreement is much better than nafta, but in terms of our work here, it is infinitely better than what was initially proposed by the administration. Vonnie House Democrats declaring a win there. For more, lets bring in bloomberg trade reporter shawn donnan in washington. Todays developments on the trade front, how incremental are they . Shawn i think we got one really important big step on usmca. It is a remarkable day in what is a highly partisan washington, when we see a bipartisan agreement on a trade deal. Trade politics are always t
Types and peak periods, compared to the last monitoring cycle in 2017. These charts show the longterm trends in both auto and transit or bus speeds. Note that theres a discontinuity in 2017, because the data provider had updated the data product. But longtime trends show that auto speeds have been declining continuously over the past decade. A greener economy and population, combined with increasing number of ridehail vehicles on the streets, are contributing factors. On the other hand, transit or bus speeds are holding itself steady, and this is likely due to the transit investments that are being made. However, the transit speeds in the Downtown Core are still pretty slow, just about at about 6 miles an hour. We have other metrics that we also track continuously. Auto transit speed ratio is the ratio of auto speed to transit speed. This indicates how competitive transit is relative to auto. The closest the values are to one or the better. We found that transit competitiveness is incr
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