This weekend. What will it mean for the soft commodities market . Trade tensions. With no breakthrough on nafta to my and tensions over north korea, what is trumps next move . We speak to the former president of the u. S. Export and import bank at 8 30 a. M. U. K. Time. 30 minutes to go until the start of your trading day. Lets show you how the markets are shaping up and it is risk off. There is no consensus, that is the issue for equity markets. Rise and itstocks was the u. S. That had to do the heavy lifting. 20 percent. Making up for lost ground. There is no consensus. Mr. Men will speak with mr. Putin today. The head of south korea warned of uncontrollable north korea. If we failed to stop could sinks they into an uncontrollable situation manifest inions are markets. Lets have a look at gmm and asian sweep of equities. Credit now seeing the default swaps were south korea exceeding that of china on a fairly consistent basis. Hence the reason why youre seeing a little bit of move in
Can i get everybodys attention please . All right. Welcome to the met club. Thank you for coming out on this rainy evening. Know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolute im not doing the introduction yet but dehighlighted to have dick morris here tonight. Thank you. Welcome to the met club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here. Thats pretty cool. So wave to the guys at cspan there. Just a couple of quick announcements. Our next event here at the club will be our first thursday say hello. The next event is first thursday, october 5th, and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman, adele, who she and her husband moved to washington, dc. Her husband, david, who is a very noted economist, is part of the the undersecretary of the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hi has been confirmed as an undersecretary of the treasury. He is going to be here that night, too so its a great opportunity to celebrate the
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Its tuesday october the 17th im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Inflation has risen to its highest level in more than five years. The rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices index, increased to 3 last month, up from 2. 9 in august. The figure is significant because the government uses data from september to set pension and benefit increases. Our Business Correspondent ben bland is here. You are here to chew over these latest figures. What is behind this rise . When we talk about inflation, cpi, typically the things we spend oui cpi, typically the things we spend our money on like food, this figure relates to an average how those prices have gone up this september with a year before, and as we were talking about that figure was 3 , in pa rt talking about that figure was 3 , in part driven by food prices going up, transport cost going, but also as you mentioned the weak pound, after brexit, which affects Raw Materials and foods, imported, the prices you and foods,
Standard and basis our country, but he does. Dickerson well talk to him about it. After meeting with Senate Republicans the president said there are far more loving him than leaving him. I call it a love fest, almost a love fest, maybe it was a love fest. But we had standing ovations, there is great unity. Dickerson president will need that party unity to get his tax plan through congress. Maine senator Susan Collins, shell also join us. Plus as the president moves to address the opioid epidemic, has he done enough . Well talk to business point man, chris christie. Plus analysis on all the news and special look at music and politics. With the late show with Stephen Colberts band leader jon batiste. Its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Late friday the news broke that special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into russian attempts to influence our election has resulted in at least one sealed indictment. Charges are unknown a