And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers joe twyman and Yasmin Alibhai brown. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Thereve been fierce clashes between turkish troops and kurdish militias in northeastern syria. Much of the fighting has been in the border area near ras al ain. Turkey claims its military has entered the town, but the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces dispute this. Since fighting broke out on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are believed to have been killed and more than 100,000 people have fled their homes. Ankara says it wants to establish a 20 mile deep buffer zone, across the frontier with syria, to keep out kurdish militias and resettle syrian refugees. From akcakale on the turkish side of the border our middle east correspondent, martin patience, has sent us this report. Despite the growing international pressure, turkeys not backing down. At the border, the build up continues. As turkey claims its taking control of a key syrian town. Gu
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Data out this morning was up slightly joining us for the entire hour is from ariel investments, pushing back against the earnings theme youre feeling good . Id say im better than the market is feeling. I think the market is looking for soft earnings, maybe 3 decline in earnings. Were hoping that we might get a positive number, but not as bad as the markets think lets drill down on all of the big stories. Lets start with you, bob. All three major indices at new highs. And let me show you, a nice group of Retail Stocks hitting new highs. Walmart, home depot, dow tjx, autozone. A small group of Consumer Staples breaking out to new highs. Proctor and gamble, colgate, starbucks a 52 week high for them the Payment Systems, mastercard, visa, visa the biggest gainer of the year up 36 . They have been on fire recently. Finally one last point, the vix down to 12 and change. This is sitting right near the lows for the year. Obviously august is a slower part of the year, but even so, a pretty low
Good monday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt along with Morgan Brennan and Contessa Brewer live at post nine at the New York Stock Exchange carl is on assignment, as you probably heard this morning, in hanoi, vietnam hes going to be reporting live all day tomorrow on that countrys recent manufacturing boom and its role in the u. S. china trade war a lot more do not miss our live coverage. Again, all day tomorrow. And meantime, we begin with facebook, google, and your data. Exactly how much is it worth that is the question senators mark warner and josh haolly are asking as they propose new legislation that would force Big Tech Companies to put a price tag on user data and guys, this i find fascinating and very confli complicated. Because one persons data, the way i understand it, is worth very little, but everybodys data is worth a lot. And i dont think its as simple as just doing division like, you divide the total value of the data by the number of people some peoples dat
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