Policies. At 9 00, a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the battle with edward and i and owen connor. National museum of the marine corps senior curator. Host good morning. A three hour washington journal is ahead and we will talk about the state of u. S. Manufacturing and take you to the National Museum of the marine corps for the second stop of our museum tour. We begin the question about who should get credit for the state of the u. S. Economy. The current and previous occupants of the oval office claimed credit for the robust u. S. Economy. This morning, we put the question to you. Republicans, the phone number is 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. On can also catch up with us text message. That number, 2027488003. If you send a text, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise on twitter it is cspanwj and on facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good tuesday morning. You can start calling in now. We take you to the headline in usa t
Million manufacturing jobs in the u. S. The trend since the end of the great recession, dating back to the early days of the Obama Administration, has been incredibly positive. Slow but steady. The trend over the last year has been a little less rosy. We have added only about 26,000 manufacturing jobs over the last 12 months. This is in a private sector economy that added about 2 million jobs in the same period. Manufacturing has lagged far behind the rest of the economy. Duringas a 1. 5 year boom the Trump Administration, but that has dissipated. We have been losing manufacturing jobs. Host what do you. 2 for that for that lag . To guest there has been some uncertainty. It has come around as a result of the trade policy. I think it has had some benefits but it is also adding uncertainty to some businesses. They are reluctant to invest and other things are not getting purchased. That has a spiral effect in manufacturing. Gas,ave seen in oil and ironically when the prices go down a litt
80 years since support probably in wall came down. To. Thank you very much for joining us medics say at least 3 people have died during clashes in baghdad this saturday this amid reports Iraqi Security forces are moving in to protest sites in the city just hours ago the iraqi Prime Minister Abdullah Mahdi said the country must be allowed to return to normal tens of thousands of people have been protesting for weeks now angry about a lack of basic services wising unemployment and corruption. To announce electoral reforms in the coming days lets speak to natasha going to him in baghdad for us natasha what more can you tell us about these latest us in baghdad. Foly with the work week slated to begin tomorrow morning this is a strategy by Security Forces in baghdad to confine the protests to to harir square that has been the epicenter of the protests since october 1st however last week things became very chaotic in the capital as the protests spread out throughout the capital dozens of roa
Died during clashes in baghdad this comes amid reports Iraqi Security forces have moved in to protest sites in the city just hours ago Prime Minister ayad abdul mahdi said the country must be allowed to return to normal tens of thousands of people have been protesting for weeks now angry about a lack of basic said this is rising unemployment and corruption lets get the latest from the name in baghdad for us what more can you tell us about these latest deaths and the tosh. What were hearing that is that inside track to where square things are relatively calm but more people are coming in to check where square as apparently Security Forces are moving into areas in and around the square where protesters have been gathered there is a big clash going on right now in a square leading into to where square it involves several 100 protesters and Security Forces were told that there are reports of people being killed of Security Forces using live ammunition and a lot of tear gas the ministry of
Sonali welcome to bloomberg markets. Lets look at the markets quickly. We have a lot of red on the screen. We have the s p 500 now down about one half of 1 . The nasdaq 100 is seeing bigger can kleins. The russell 2000 even more than that. Its now down about 1. 5 on the day, quickening its losses and thats on the back of higher yields. The twoyear yield just flying higher. Its above 4. 67 on the day. Thats a three basis point move. You have to remember how far weve come. We will dive into the Economic Data we had this morning that is driving the yields higher. Michael mckee joins us now to bring us up mike mike to date. This is a nerd indicator. Business inventories are just out at the moment. Its not a really good number. 0. 0 after a 0. 3 increase the month before. That is down from 0. 4 . It suggests the u. S. Is not building inventories as much as people might have thought. There was a feeling that because gdp has shown inventories declining for the last months that we would see fa