Hes the longest. Joseph stalin. A referendum on. All. Rules so. The future of this story. Hello welcome to the program. Vladimir putin was 1st elected as russias president in 2020 years later he still had he served longer than any russian or soviet politician since the early 1950 s. And it could be on course to be one of his nations longest serving leaders putins opponents say he plans to Never Leave Office constitutional reforms introduced in january will allow him to stay in power for another 26 year terms his current one and in 4 years russians have started voting in a weeklong referendum on the amendments but the state duma has already approved those changes to the constitution while also passing a law that says the reforms must have the public supports president putin says hell consider running for a 5th term in 2024 he said this to the Russian Media if this doesnt happen then in about 2 years and i know this from personal experience the normal rhythm of work of many parts of gove
Plunge half their val ru a positive surprise from china where exports and imports were much less than expected in march. U. S. Bank stocks mark their first negative session in five as jp morgan kicks off earnings season with investors anxious to find out exactly how these banks have been impacted by coronavirus. This is a look at european stock markets are trading. Dont forget theyve been closed for the long easter weekend. We saw the look out of china export and import numbers. Expecting a plunge of 14 only down 6. 6 . Still a steel fall but much better than anticipated. Thats been paused for the reopening of european markets. Talk about when well start to see the easing of lockdowns. Europe starting to layout plans. That is really starting to help out. We are still witnessing a little red ink at this stage. The other big catalyst is landmark and the Production Cut of oil it has been a slight increase this morning it certainly didnt move the needle on the spot as anticipated. These ma
Dont know about it but neither do most consumers. If you pay the deposit for bottles and cans, youre supposed to be able to get your money back. It is part of californias 33 yearold bottle bill, but dont expect smooth sailing. Bottles and cans . Greg wright found out the hard way when the recycling kiosk in the parking lot of his Neighborhood Grocery store close last august. He is a longtime bottle and can redeemer. I dont need the money, and i dont want to give it to the sanitary department. Reporter so he called sacramento that stash and said hey, whats going on . And they got back to me and said you dont. Reporter cal recycle agency the agency that oversees recycling in the state told him he could redeem his cans right there at his lucky supermarket. But when he went in, no one in the store knew anything. Turns out retailers became the mandated recyclers of last resort last year. When 300 recycle kiosk and parking lots like this one were set down across the state. If there is nowher
We were both at the wall street journal my partner and i for many years, Peter Fritsch, and the News Business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. It started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. I was in my mid40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. Host what kind of stories did you work on at the wall street journal . Guest i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaignfinance abuses, ethics in washington and government. Over the years that evolved into different types of Investigative Journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the s
The latest. Dani definitely a mixed session. The stoxx 600 down. It is a macro heavy trading day between the u. K. Election, Central Bank Decisions and that the tariff deadline, we have traders on the sideline. Expandedy has really for sterling. Cable down about 0. 1 , but still trading at that 1. 31 handle. This is a conservative government priced in. Upside is really limited. We have seen sterling fall after the poll showed the conservatively it cut by about half and the concern is the Hung Parliament that would throw into concern the outcome of brexit. Some strategists have said that sterling may fall as low as 1. 22 if we do get a Hung Parliament. Brent down about 0. 5 tonight. We are seeing brent trade just under 64 a barrel. The aramco ipo hitting the 10 limit with shares surging so far today. Looking at some of the individual movers we have seen in the market. Jd sports is one of the biggest lacquers in the stoxx 600 laggers in the stoxx 600. Its biggest shareholder sold 2. 4 of