The export and import numbers were toward you this morning. The euro steps bacsk from its alltime high. Denmark, portugal all off in excess of 25 . The pound is at a fiveyear low. We are waiting for u. S. Retail sales to come through. Iron ore down at 30 45 this year, 30 in the making. You are seeing the miners come under pressure. As we go to the imf, stopstart scenario. A lot of criticism of the miners. Just keep digging that stuff out of Western Australia and exporting it. Paris, lets have a look. On the downside by over 1. 2 . Some individual names in focus today, the irish paper and Pulp Corporation up 2. 78 . They are denying that they are in talks, had an approach from international paper. They are saying it is frustrating that theyve got these reports. Julius baer dispelling rumors that julius baer and Credit Suisse have not held talks, according to the ceo. Tesco down by 0. 9 . Tesco may face another 3 billion pounds of impairments. Scrapping plans for 49 stores. Those are you
The general election. Mark welcome to countdown. Manus as miliband prepares to unveil his manifest with a pledge to lower the budget deficit, every year we look to this week in politics and the bloomberg debate. Caroline to export engine in the worlds secondlargest economy is suffering. Lets head straight to hong kong. Yvonne has the latest. 14 decline, a big miss. Yvonne it is definitely a nosedive, economists were expecting an eight point gain but those overseas shipments falling close to 15 . That was also a miss. Economists expecting 10 in the fall. That makes the trade surplus at 3 billion. Compare that to february when we saw 60 billion in trade surplus. There is that falling commodity price which is driving down the value of the imports, instead of an actual fall. The currency one thing to take a look at. The stronger yen. Compare that to the chinese goods may be looking relatively more expensive compared to their counterparts and they may start to see that big impact on chinese
Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , two weeks ago, the New York Times accomplished an article on Congressional Democrats plan for the rest of the year. It boiled down to one thing campaigning. Thats right, eight months out from the election, democrats in congress have given up on legislating. Instead, theyre going to spend the next eight months focused on show votes which will and i quote from the story be timed to coincide with campaignstyle trips by president obama. End quote. While these he votes wail focus on quote pocketbook issues democrats hope will appeal to voarkts, the votes arent designed to accomplish anything. The democrats concede, the times goes on to say that making new laws is not the point. Rather, theyre trying to force republicans to vote against them, end quote, thats
Could put your former prosecutor hat on and tell us where we are in this point of the Closing Arguments. Watching this reminds me of what it felt to sit at the table and listen to defense lawyers make their close and you just being so anxious to stand back up and rebut and thats what the prosecutors going to do now. The prosecutors going to walk this jury back through the law and the evidence. I got to tell you from my perspective this defense attorney, i dont think he did his client a lot of favors. He rambled and went on and on and on and on rather than just focusing on his most powerful arguments, briefly and strongly. It is almost like he kept trying to throw stuff up against the wall to see if anything would stick and jurors sense that. He only has to get one jury to make it be a hung jury with no result but i didnt think he was particularly effective because he just talked too long and reminded me of senators talking too long. Michael eric tyson, everything you have written on th
Epstein. Hes fighting new charges that could put him behind prison throughout his life. An investigative journalist whos been covering this case joins us live and you will not believe him somewhat shes uncovered. The democratic governor signing bill capitol hill lawmakers access to President Trumps state tax returns. The president s team called it harassment. Democrats say its their constitutional duty. Later, at 2020 prisoners are a hopeful Kamala Harris and joe biden see demers, Michelle Obama makes an endorsement announcement. The latest from the campaign trail just ahead. Welcome to fox news night, im Shannon Bream in washington. We begin with financier Jeffrey Epstein spending the night behind bars facing charges of sex crimes. Correspondent brian eunice has more. We want to hear from you. Federal prosecutors in new york city urged anyone who may have been victimized by Jeffrey Epstein to come forward, looking disheveled but calm, epstein a wellknown financier to billionaires made