A waste of time for most people. The cost of credit. Spending on credit cards is at the most expensive in 13 years, even though Interest Rates are at record lows. I will look at why. Mo farahs former coach Alberto Salazar is found guilty of doping violations and banned from athletics for four years. A court case began behind closed doors in 2017, the year farah stopped working with salazar. Good morning. Today across scotland and Northern Ireland, early rain will clear. Then mostly dry for you with just a few showers. For england and wales, rain in the north and some heavy, thundery downpours further south which could lead to some issues with localised flooding. Will have more later. It is tuesdayi of october. We are based here for much of the morning at the conservative Party Conference in manchester. Our top story proposals to avoid a hard irish border are expected to be published in the coming days as part of the governments revised brexit deal. But, with less than a month until the
Ans clegg. Overnight if activists broke windows and occupied hamilton hall. The question now is when will the authorities move in to end this occupation and restore order . There are more questions. Will the authorities delay action if white principle cysts had run black students off campus . Where is President Biden . His press secretary stays says were not going to weigh in from here. At this moment Columbia University is largely under the control of antiem mites antisemites. To the market, all a eyes on amazon. They report after the bell this this afternoon. Where the market goes from here will have a lot to do with amazons performance today. Premarket its at 182, up 1. We have a downside move for stocks overall though. Minutes ago the employment cost index showed a rise in the cost of labor, and the market turned south on that news. The dows off about 170, nasdaq down about a 85 at this point. Bitcoin, well, it came perilously close to falling below 60,000. Its right now at 61,1. T
Were worrying about commodities. They both disappointed with huge losses. Tom correlated fragilitys across all markets. Nothing dramatic other than the china news. You follow on 48 hours or so. It is heads up. We have a great set of guests to drive the market discussion. Francine you are right. Lets get bloombergs first word news with caroline hyde. Caroline austria is not waiting for the European Union to come up with a response to the refugee crisis. Wayshave agreed on several to cut off the flow of refugees. Y would essentially limit bar people from countries economist are warning the u. K. Should not need the European Union. Those responding to a bluebook survey says leaving the eu would triple the chance of the u. K. Falling into recession. Those campaigning for britain to stay said it would jeopardize investment, jobs and growth. The u. S. And china has agreed on new human sections to punish north korea for that recent rocket launch. Secretary of state john kerry and his chinese
In virginia. Hes a member there. Obama was driven to the course about 40 miles from his home. Heres a picture of it from politico. If you look you can see obama is clearly enjoying himself and honestly, why wouldnt he be . Its beautiful out on the links. Youll notice there are many people run. If thats because virginia and washington, d. C. , are still under quarantine. Everybody else is lockedas. C ate as they have been for more than a month, but not former president obama. For him, golfing at his countryb club was an essential activity. Two days later, after this picture was taken, the beleaguered residents of washington, d. C. , began to receive the Public Service announcement on their phones. The message had been recorded at the request of the d. C. Government by Barack Obamas wife, the former first lady,y michelle obama. Heres what the message said. Remember, we urge you to stay home except if you need essential health care, essential food or supplies, or to go to your central job
Life. Henning was part of a Team Delivering relief supplies when he was abducted this past december. It was his fourth trip to syria. In a message to isis his wife said, alan is a peaceful, selfless man who left his family and his job as a taxi driver in the uk to drive in a convoy all the way to syria with his muslim colleagues and friends to help those most in need. When he was taken, he was driving an ambulance full of food and water to be handed out to anyone. His purpose for being there was no more and no less. This was an act of sheer compassion. She goes on to say, i cannot see how it could assist any states cause to allow the world to see a man like alan dying. Three Muslim Leaders in england have released a video calling for Alan Hennings immediate release. Their message the aid workers execution has no place in islam. Alan henning is an aid worker, a humanitarian, a man left behind his family to help the syrian people. His desire was simple to do whatever he could do to help