Percentage point hang canning down and shanghai off by about. 9 active trading in europe now youll see red arrows across the board. Biggest decliner is the ftse 100. Look at whats been happening in the treasury the 10year is yielding is 1. 824 zben well above 1. 8 talk about pg e, saying its power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the bay area the fires began in a section of town where the utility opted to keep the lights on another round of blackouts is expected to begin today as more strong winds move on shore the u. S. Is considering extending tariffs. Skapgss on nearly 1,000 products in september, they plan to exclude American Farm goods. Bowings ceo said that their company made mistakes and got some things wrong. We own that and are fixing that. Saying boeing employees felt pressured during the certification process. That hearing begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern well watch closely and talk to two senators who will be questioning mullenburg lets talk shares of G
[background noises] a subcommittee on a visual consort is unescos at the chairman authorized to declare recess without objections ordered also ask you nose consent the subcommittee on aviation will come to order. We are authorized to declare recess any time during todays meeting. Members may ask questions without objection. As a reminder, members wishing to insert a document into the order email the documents. I now recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here, administrator whitaker. I want to congratulate you for your unanimous confirmation. As you know, achieving Something Like that in todays times is quite remarkable. We appreciate your expertise and look forward to working with you. I hope you understand that is strong support from congress, but also enormous recognition of the responsibility of the job you have now taken on. We have heard a lot of descriptions about americas Aviation Industry. Everything from it is the Gold S
This is Bloomberg Markets european close with guy johnson and alix steel. Guy at a headline level the index is not moving very much. The stoxx 600 catching a little bit of a bid. 441 is where we are tracking right now. Single stocks there is plenty of action. Ongoing problems with a range of issues right now. Many related to its original acquisition. It has issues with trains on the new elizabeth line in london. Ongoing issues in a number of places. We have management saying maybe we need to sell some assets and that is what seems to be knocking the stock. The outlook not looking that favorable. How they stabilize the ship. Puma is down 10 and ripping into stocks like adidas. They are going into a blackout at puma they had a call last night. They had a call where theyre not painting as favorable out of picture. The stock has reacted very strongly to that. It has been whipping around. Coming into the close that stock down 10 . Puma is how you would say it. Alix we do. I dont know why we
Policy. We talked about domestic policy. As i said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is two try to facilitate a transition that ensuring our president elect is successful. And i have been very encouraged be the, i think, trump s wanting to work with my around many of the issues that this great country faces. I believe it is important for all of us regardless of party or political preferences to now come together, Work Together to deal with the many had a chance to brief the incoming first lady. And we have an accident conversation with her we had an excellent conversation with her as well. We want them to feel welcome as they prepare to make this transition. Most of all, i want to emphasize to you mr. President elect that we now everything we can to help you succeed. If you succeed, the country succeeds. President elect trump thank you very much, president obama. This was a meeting that was going to last ten or 15 minutes and we were just going to get to know
Investigators cant say definitively if sex trafficking was involved. But its worth looking into. Redding mom Sherri Papini vanished while jogging a month ago. 22 days later, she was found on the side of the road in yolo county on thanksgiving. Her long blond hair was cut off, she was battered and she was branded with some kind of message. Authorities also say they have no concrete information about the possibility that a cartel or sex trafficking ring could be involved, but victim advocates say they believe that is certainly a possibility. When they heard that she was branded, that she had gotten branded, the first thing that came to our mind is she was prey. Its been going on in oakland where they just drive by and just literally throw you in the car. She is an advocate for sex trafficking victims in oakland. She says sex traffickers often brand, tattoo or otherwise mark their victims. Sex trafficking is what many call modern day slavery. Papinis husband said she had scabs, bruises, a