Renewed china trade optimism set to fuel further gains of the open retails big week and the tariff impact into the holidays. Best buy, dicks, dollar tree, abercrombie among the retailers reporting today. And ford challenging tesla to a apples to apples tug of war between pickups and elon musk says bring it on three major indices saw record closes, top trade negotiators from the u. S. And China Holding a phone call earlier this morning the two sides continue to work toward a phase one trade agreement. Trade rep lighthizer, mnuchin, both participated in that call and both sides agree to remain in contact over remaining issues on twitter, you said the phone call last night was very important in terms of furthering a deal yeah. It is real ive been skeptical. This was a real call phase one probably happens Financial Services get opened up president may believe that intellectual property is for real that instead of just a soybean buy, a promise to they would respect intellectual property. Do
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Of basketball. Wall street is looking at Sports Betting. Carol and we have amtraks turnaround plan. You may not like it. Jason here is joel weber on the issue. Lets start by talking about trains. Its a big travel week. Maybe people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. Joel amtrak has been a money loser for years. It has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and devin sat down with him to talk about his plan. A lot of people who are amtrak fans dont really like this plan of his. But it could lead amtrak to be profitable. Carol delays, delays. Never on time, right . Jason it is Richard Anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. Maybe some people making friends, or at least feeling better about the economy, is almost everyone. Peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. Joel just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. Now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybo