or more, then what? guest: uncertainty. we will deal with that and during uncertain periods, people pull the mondays in and that is why we are trying to address the consumer confidence. neil: some economics is better. not great. but better. the administration has talked about the improving jobs numbers. retail sales, not great, but better. manufacturing data. not great, but butter. and this continues for nine, ten, 11 months, she if again. guest: maybe. i have worked now through four administrations and i deal with the environment we presented with. consumer confidence has not changed much. it has improved a bit. unemployment has improved a bit. but the jobs picture is bleak for most around the world and we have to adapt as an industry and company and we continue to adapt when things change we will try to get ahead of that and sense what we need to do.
loyalists. gadhafi s sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemen s embattled president has arrived in riyadh. he s expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. they ll join other victims of media intrusion who will give evidence before the inquiry. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts now. it s 9:00 a.m. here in london. good morning, i m nina dos santos. and it s 5:00 p.m. here in hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this wednesday, november the 23rd, stock markets sink into the red worldwide. as poor manufacturing numbers fr
vegas. and there s crashes all the time in this sport. let s talk about what made this one so bad. what made it so bad is the fact that you have a field, which is bigger than the indianapolis 500, on a racetrack which is almost half as small. the oval here at the las vegas motor speedway is a mile and a half oval. and in indianapolis, it s a 2 1/2 mile oval. so you have a lot more spacing of cars. as you look at the wreck right now, you have a much fatter track so cars can go four wide, which means they are more bunched up going into turns, and dan wheldon starting at the back of the pack going for that $5 million grand prize. he had already passed over 1/3 of the field going into the 11th lap, and when the wreck began to happen, he was behind the group. and basically, jumped one of the other cars and went into the retaining fence on turn two. and you can see the massive pileup. it was quoted several drivers called it the worst wreck they have ever seen in their racing ca
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outlook for most of the world, especially america. this morning what shook everyone and has everyone petrified right now is the notion that china may be falling apart, their manufacturing data contracted for the third consecutive month. in europe the euro zone contracted for the first time in two years. they are at a two and a half year low and it s a very frightening situation and it s one where i think also in addition to the worry that people should naturally have is that we don t know where th the answers are. where are the solutions, where is the leadership? jenna: let s talk a little bit about some of the things that are being done. we mentioned operation twist, what exactly is that, charles, and can that help? operation twist goes become to an operation they tried in 1961, hence the name the twist was a big dance craze back then. you know, most detract ters say