trade partners and in two thousand and seventeen exported goods worth around eighty four billion euros to the island goods worth some thirty seven billion euros travelled in the opposite direction. meanwhile the e.u. sends goods worth a total of around two hundred ninety five billion euros to the u.k. british exports to europe are worth about one hundred eighty eight billion euros. so it s hardly surprising that companies a nervous breaks in negotiation period is more than half way through and businesses still don t know exactly what conditions they should be preparing themselves for their demands for answers throw louder by the day. but as you just heard there there s still no clear policy stance on bragg s it in london even after parliament there wants to have the last word or breaks it but while the brits are moving out the irish are cozying up to the e.u. and its biggest power in an exclusive interview now the w. s kate brady spoke with
about the stock market and individual stocks. and this is less about what what is happening with the economy. because as you said, the economy is doing well. the jobs report that came out the other day suggested there was much weakness in the market. and in the overall economy. do i senate thiever i don t people at the fed will take this as something other than internal di dynami dynamics to do with inflation right rates and i don t think will let me get ron in here for a second. i want to respond to that with respect to the fed. the federal reserve does keep an eye. a two-day pull back and while jarring to most people won t get the federal reserve to change its policy stance. it is expected the fed will raise interest rates three times this year to cooldown what it appears to be an accelerating economic. and if the market were to come
usually when something frustrating him, he pushes it back with obama. we have seen this on a number of things. it s unfortunate the thing he is pushing back on obama is something like this. the president is very personal and very competitive. things are very personal and competitive for him. it s almost like this is a contest. this should not be a contest. it s not. exactly. absolutely. this just should not be. one of the roepbts why this is newsworthy is and the politicization is just horrific. but the president has this long pattern of behavior of criticizing the military. even though as you rightly point out, cleaning up the v.a. the policy stance is much different than what he has said. that s why so many people, zach, i think are critical of the president when he tries to talk about the military. right. you go back to khan.
think the goal here ought to be to get all the coalitions that were working on this issue on one page up on capitol hill again. and then also working hand in glove with the administration. one of the things i would worry about, i would disagree with jen on the fact this was a political decision because this was a policy stance that the president was very clear about during the course of the election. so you can disagree with him on that, but it was clear this was something that he ran on, but i think one of the things i would worry about is some of the differences that are in the administration do come out again in public. kevin, jen, thanks so much. as always. evacuations underway as fast-moving wildfires consume buildings and homes right in california s wine country. now that fire has turned deadly and dozens of other people are in the hospital.
trump. what exactly was disappointing about this conversation between the two leaders for you? as math you sathew said, i w in moscow last week. funny we didn t see each other. all of the talks in official moscow is how quickly can we get trump and putin to meet? if they meet, hopefully the same thing will happen that happened with xi. and trump will feel a connection and will flip 180 degrees his previous policy stance. he will decide he doesn t want to label china a currency manipulator anymore. and maybe he will decide once again to unilaterally lift sanctions and will untangle himself from the kind of internal political mess in the u.s., where russia hawks on the left and the right, are holding him down. but he didn t really get that in