tell you why the u.s. economy growing by more than expected in the third quarter thanks to the strongest consumer spending in delhi for years the commerce department said gross rest of product or the total value of goods and services produced increased by three and a half percent compared to a year earlier the shop rising consumer spending helps offset a big drop in trade companies spend more to increase their inventories which also helped to bolster growth analysts are expecting the economy to expand by around three percent this year. as. the preferred stock exchange about this because investors are a little jittery despite these robust numbers how do you read them. yeah the question is is the u.s. economy going to grow further on the surface it may look very good right now but if you go into deeper there s more to worry you mention trade has gone down also if you look at businesses they re investing in inventory but they re not investing
able to play the north korea card in the region. so china will maneuver this quite adeptly as they always have, and just in the last few days, as was mentioned earlier, bringing russia on board and saying that there needs to be these concessions on both sides by north korea as well as the alliance of south korea and the united states in order for there to be calm restored to the region. it is unclear what exactly might be said between president trump and china s president xi jinping in that sideline meeting at the g20, but there could be in the days to come perhaps more pressure on some banks, more pressure on some trade companies, but we re probably not going to see anything too swift or too dramatic that might upset the balance, at least from china s perspective. it is incredible to think how many strategic conversations are going to take place at that g20 and considering the ramifications that could happen
h.r. mcmaster as well saying it s going to be america first and also that america is going to have a different style of leadership. now you re having a lot of european leaders asking what is american leadership. what is it going to look like in the future and they re obviously already going in a different direction. they re trying to foster deeper trade ties for instance with these trade companies and for instance with china and for instance with india. but also deeper political ties as well. that s also something that is going to show on the world stage. especially when you have things like potentially trade disputes between the u.s. and china which is something that could happen and you had president trump being very critical of the chinese. if you have something like that in the future where are the europeans going to stand in and they have more economic and political ties. one of the things we have to keep in mind is a lot of the integration in europe started
and is no longer attacking protesters. they ve been on the ground about 48 hours. their initial statements are so far stunning. the chief monitor of this arab league ober force is a sudden and east commander. not only a commander but also the former head of foreign intelligence in the government of omaral bashir, a man wanted for genocide in crimes against humanity. more on that in a moment. today, the head of the arab league team told reuters that things were calm and there were no clashes which has seen some of the deadliest violence. he said the situation seems reassuring. he said some places looked a bit of a mess but there was nothing frightening. nothing frightening. that is not what we have been hearing from people in and around homes for months and not what you will hear from a reporter that snuck into that city and returned. the footage he took is very disturbing. we re going to show you that in a moment as well. there s other video from homes to show you, but before