Hour. President trump is heading to a wisconsin. Well bring you any major headlines this hour. The split screen you will see all day, President Trump expected to sign one of the biggest accomplishments of his presidency as nancy pelosi makes her move on capitol hill. Iran cracking down announcing arrests in the downing of the ukrainian passenger jet as protests rain in the streets of tehran for the fourth day. The latest demand from demonstrators. Ashley fox Business Team coverage of course. Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence following latest on trade at the white house. Edward, lets begin with you. Reporter ashley right now the chinese trade delegation finishing up meetings with American Business leaders. This trip was not just about signing for the chinese. It was telling American Businesses that china is open for business, come back and do business in china. Now i spoke with the Senior Vice President for the u. S. Chamber for asia, charles free
Think we have broad bipartisan agreement on. With regard to impeachment, our understanding is that and i thinkure understanding is, well the house is likely typhoon alley send finally send articles on us it were that would set us up to begin the actual trial next tuesday. That was senator majority leader mitch mcconnell, joining us now, Indiana Republican senator mike braun. And senator, you voted in two committees today to push through usmca. Will the big trade deal pass the senate and be signed into law before impeachment trial tuesday . Leader mcconnell is the master of scheduling stuff in a tight time frame. Sad that we have to do all this within the process of a couple of days weve been, this could have been across the finish like last year, but it is so important farmers, and state like indiana, agriculture a big deal, number one manufacturing state per capita, this finally picks was what in place. I was disappointed that Speaker Pelosi was playing footsie with it for a long time
I imagine it will take a lot to break 1. 30. Snp is up. Let us take a look at your. The stock flat over all. Dax is down. Carmakers butto we are seeing a little improvement. The german tenyear yield is tocting and bringing it up zero. Lets get to the latest on brexit with Boris Johnson speaking and parliament. He announced his agenda for the u. K. After it separates from the european union. One message i heard from this campaign in every corner of these islands. It is not just that the british people what to get brexit done. They want to move politics on and move the country on. Vonnie joining us from london his opinion editor to resurrect five. Raphael. He can do almost anything he wants. Some other surprising elements to those who watched the reaction within the conservative his decision to suspend parliament was overruled. There will be a review. A Constitutional Review that will take a look at the powers of the court and how that works. That was one thing he announced. Parliament a
Americans are still spending and they still have the money to spend. David and they are optimistic. Mike not only did they hang in the numbers showed the lowest Inflation Expectation in history for consumers over the next five years, just 2. 2 . Whetheris worried about Inflation Expectations get on board. T makes the on board unmoored. For is something to look in 2020. Kevin now we are going to in los angeles. What were the principal takeaways . Kevin im not sure there were major changes in the dynamic of the race. Two things coming from joe biden. He was able to successfully contrast himself to Bernie Sanders on medicare for all. After the debate, i spoke with some officials in the campaign that said they were satisfied with that aspect of the performance. I would note how he talked about china. He would want to work with the united nations, a contrast with the current status quo. Now we go over to london. We have a new head of the bank of england. What do we know about him . Andrew b
Of ubs investment banking. Kaiser of ubs investment bank. Anything stood out to you so far . This is pretty much as expected. The key is to emphasize there is uncertainty, even though we have the emphatic conservative victory in the election, and we know that brexit is going to happen. Theres still uncertainty about what kind of brexit, and short for the bank of england, we dont know what the fiscal policies of this government will be. There is a little bit of stimulus built into their servitors manifesto which was not taken into account in the current bank of england forecast , but they have room to do a great deal more. If you have a budget in the next months from the conservatives which primes the me, has a lot of stem it economy, that has changes the outlook. Those seven who voted against change probably had that in mind. Alix are you trading cable at all . Stuart todays decision is pretty much in line with expectations. I think the view is the first half of the year you get the or