Rates for only the second time since the 2008 financial crisis. It warns of slowing global growth. Manchester city are up and running in the Champions League. They comfortably beat shakhtar donetsk in ukraine, whilst spurs are held to a draw by olympiakos. And more wardrobe dilemmas out there today. The chilly start to your thursday morning but with plenty of sunshine overhead it will feel pleasa ntly warm sunshine overhead it will feel pleasantly warm later. I will have the full forecast here on breakfast. It is thursday 19 september. Our top story the number of robberies in england and wales is increasing much faster than in other wealthy countries. A new report shows robberies with knives have risen by 45 between march 2014 and march 2018. The increase is being blamed on police cuts and the growth in smartphone use. Our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw reports. It isa it is a frightening crime. Every hour about ten people become victims of robbery, sometimes by thieves riding m
Flood, the u. S. Coast guard swooping in rescuing and evacuating victims. Now, millions across the east coast are on alert. States of emergency declared from florida all the way to virginia. Evacuations under way. Ginger and our team with the very latest on dorians track. New details in that deadly texas highway rampage. The gunmans phone call to the fbi just before the shooting. And questions about how he got that firearm. Panic at the airport overnight. A false alarm sending passengers at newark fleeing onto the tarmac. The confrontation that sparked it all. Kevin harts recovery. His wife now speaking out, the latest on the comedians condition after that serious car accident over the weekend. And hurricane hero. The woman opening up her home to this. How she wound up sheltering nearly 100 dogs from the worst storm in a lifetime. Its good to have everyone here as we kick off a busy tuesday morning. We want to get right to Hurricane Dorian inching closer to the u. S. Mainland. Take a l
Street, which he must avoid a damaging no deal divorce at all costs. Shery later in Bloomberg Technology global link, we will talk about the Justice Department investigation into whether big tech has been stifling competition. First, thats get you started with a quick check of how the markets closed tuesday session in the u. S. The s p 500 closed at the highest level in more than a week, up 7 10 of 1 . Rising for a second consecutive session. We have some strong earnings coming from the likes of cocacola, united technologies. Not to mention lockheed martin. We also had Investor Confidence that a deal would be struck when it comes to suspending the u. S. Debt ceiling. In the afternoon session, we got news that ambassador lighthizer could be going to china next week for the first highlevel trade negotiations since may so that really spurred Investor Confidence. The dow gaining 7 10 of 1 . Almost every sector in the green in the s p 500 and hit higher by industrials and materials. The nas
This after a day of trading that saw s p 500 hit another alltime high, second straight day of record. Meantime investors are cautiously awaiting upcoming earning season with 80 of s p 500 Companies Reportedly cutting earnings forecast. Joining me research chief macro strategist lenor hawkins, what is driving the market to plus side if you watch the bond market, 10year yield falling and closing below 2 yesterday and then you this percentage of s p 500 Companies Cutting their earnings forecast . This is really all about the fed in the hope that easy money will keep prices going up because this has nothing to do with fundamentals, if you look at what happened at first half of the year, s p 500 rose 17 , the strongest first half of the year since 1997 but if we look at earnings, if we look at whats going on with the fundamentals, earnings declined 4. 4 for the s p 500 for the First Quarter and expect today decline negative 2. 3 in second quarter, you have prices going up while the actual r
Tracking a hot spot earlier last hour and now hospitals cleared but the backup has not so this is in the east bay. Its going to be really slow along a west bound for coming out of the on the antioch area getting in martinez because of that earlier martinez because o that earlier crash so it traffics in the recovery stage is so were looking at 27 minutes now so little bit longer on westbound for any oc into conquered and getting that to 42 sweat so keep that in mind its going to take a little bit of time for traffic to recover a couple of other drive times that im tracking around the bay area. Youre westbound 5. 80 commute from livermore towards the double interchange that still looking good in 11 minutes, but it is starting to get slow from a south 6 80 from the double interchange getting into freeman right now and then the nimitz freeway slowing go from sanli under to the to 37 split at 26 minutes on the southbound side and then to 37 were looking at just under 10 minutes coming out o