Vote on its third Bailout Program with a number of members expected to reject the package. This as Alexis Tsipras concedes European Partners got the better of him. Sales in hong kong slump but the Fashion Group says its still pursuing growth opportunities. Coming up on todays show mickey goes to shanghai. The exclusive from the companys ceo. Twitter spares spike on a fake report of a takeover bid but has this happened one time too many . And donald comes up trump. The extravagant real estate mogul leading the gop field despite weeks of controversy. All the details later in todays show. Lets kick off with china. Retail sales, industrial output and fixed Asset Investment all beating forecast. Data came in at 7 . Thats higher than analysts were expecting. The worlds second largest economy is now on track to hit the 2015 growth target. Fancy that. Interestingly they were quick to jump to the defense of the data saying the figures were not inflated and the improvement was hard one. Its real
Stockton reports an increase in profits, but says thousands of jobs will go. There will be cut. It is too early to show that. Do you think it would be more in the range of hundreds or thousands . I would say more like a thousand. Guy welcome to countdown. And im anna it is just past 6 00 here in london. Mark carney is here later on in the press conference. Everyone waiting to see if he will change Market Expectations for where rates are in the u. K. And when they will get hikes. Anna 1 or 2 . That is how i like to phrase it. Are loudas if there voices saying there could be more, maybe another joining the ranks of those trying to get an Interest Rate hike. More broadly, it is clues. Guy i think it is 1 . I think the fed story is getting more interesting. I think will feedback into what is happening with the bank. Janet yellen really making it clear that that december hike is still very much on the card. Cards. The markets are alive to that risk. This is how they said that have shifted o
React to the poll and said Republican Party leaders seem to finally be accepting that hes here to stay. They view me as an outsider i guess, and now theyre starting to view me not as an outsider because im leading in all the polls, not just yours. I think they have been really nice over the last few days. Theyre starting to see whats happening. Theres a movement going on. This is more man me this is a movement going on people are tired of these incompetent politicians in washington that cant get anything done, they cant make deals, they cant do anything. All they care about is getting elected. They dont care about anything else. Cnns sunlin is in waurkd washington, d. C. This makes it difficult for political leaders that want less of trump. Reporter right now he is the front runner among the republicans. Its important to note here this poll was done after he made those controversial comments about senator john mccain, so all that backlash that trump received did not damage him in the p
What is interesting is you have heard a lot of talk in the last week about whether donald trump may not run as a republican, maybe an independent. A majority of people want to see him stay in the race. You can see the numbers there. They want him to stay in the race whether its as a republican or independent. One last interesting number thats coming up here we know donald trump has focused a great deal on the issue of illegal immigration. Thats the drum hes beating. Thats the beginning of his controversial remarks. If you look at the poll the economy ranks first, whether you are a democrat or republican it is the economy that is top of mind. Illegal immigration is further down. A lot of interesting numbers here in this poll. We are going to look at it all morning and talk about it all day. Chris . Very interesting. Immigration, 10 and 11 respectively between democrats and republicans. Its not such a big issue. This poll is shouting a challenge to the gop and will they rise to it is the
Allison chinchar. She has a brand new update on the path and the intensity of dorian, allison, which is very important. It is, yes. Also the direction. Finally some good news to provide. The storm is now moving westnorthwest instead of due west. That may seem like such a nominal thing to point out but its very important because it now means were starting to see that gradual shift off to the north. This is great news for not only people in freeport but also along the florida coast because it begins its beginning that shift away from florida and up the coast rather instead. Now, i want to emphasize this does not mean florida will not be impacted. It just means that were starting to see that northward trend so the landfall across florida is starting to come down, at least the chances. However, because impacts will still be in place, we have hurricane watches, warnings as well as Tropical Storm warnings across the east coast of florida. Mainly due to the fact that the winds are still going