Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran
About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com
September retail sales, nice beat there, the srt up 102 from march lows, thats a new high, Dick Sporting goods, best buy, dollar general, costcos and lowes, bed, bath and beyond on its best pace ever is it time to buy retail there are still select names you can buy at retail and some names that have absolutely exploded the up side you just went through a list some of these are at alltime highs. The consumer is strong, the consumer return, the consumer has gotten out there the september numbers were well above what the expectations were these numbers are very, very impressive it does go to show you just how strong these guys are in terms of everybody getting out and about and getting into different retail its not just about the essentials anymore you just went through the laundry list the reality is, it is about people going out and getting clothing, shoes, yoga material whatever it is we might be, we are seeing an absolute run towards that area and a nice spring board were seeing a lot
Earlier. The strategy, shop now to be the december delivery rush. The stock took off yesterday and up again premarket about 24. Within the last year, amazon has touched a low of 1600, now 34. Double the past year, modest pullback for the dow, down about maybe 150, remember it was up to 50 yesterday, the s p will be down as well. Look at the nasdaq, powering ahead again on the back of another technology search, 31 again. I have trumped the video, it may surprise you, this is the crowd lining up for the president s event in florida, it is absolutely endless. And to impact largely mass close crowd, the president danced up a storm, he should his apparent boundless energy, the man is back, he is planing two or three events a day until the election. Then theres joe biden he went to ohio, forgot mitt romneys name, said he was running for the senate in question the memory of voters who say they are better off now than they were four years ago. However, the main event obviously, the hearings fo
Germany is set to rein in public and private parties. Its inflation rate falls further below zero. The ecb may need to do more. Christine lagarde speaks in 90 minutes time. Disney cuts deep. They will lay off 28,000 workers at its resort business, leaving one of the deepest economic scars of the covid era. Welcome to the program. Just gone 7 00 in london. Waiting for data to come out from the u. K. Economy and some news expected from shell. Lets get to the u. K. Data first. This is the final reading on u. K. Gdp, coming in not far away from where we anticipated it to be. Estimate was 21. 7. 19. 8 percent for the quarter on quarter numbers. These are all negative. A retreat of 19. 8 in the second corner. The estimate was 20. 4 . Thats just a small detail. We are dealing with incredibly large negative numbers. They are very backward looking. The real question will be, how does that data perform . How has the economy performed since the Second Quarter . How will liberal perform as we head