Good evening everyone. Candidates including Kamala Harris Elizabeth Warren and basil or ward touch on issues vying for support. More on tonights event. About one of the delegates said she is feeling a tremendous amount of excitement and energy. California has always been a magnet for candidates looking for donors and campaign funds. 5000 democrats are in frances San Francisco for the state convention. The party is intense on running back the white house this year the primary has been moved up earlier making california more and play than in years past. Reporter saturday evening democrats dined at the center is congresswoman Maxine Waters kicked off the Democratic Convention dinner. Thank you California Democrats for playing a lead role in making this happen. Reporter california voters heard strategies for taking back the white house from 11 of the democratic president ial candidates who spoke on saturday. He obstructed justice and hired an attorney general to clean up the crime scene. W
10,000 members of staff online. Soon he says the service is working hard to stop third parties from attempting to intimidate, corrupt or cause harm to serving police officers. Is a group set up to assess the risk to officers caused by the risk to officers caused by the breach has already had 500 referrals and as youve been hearing, 100,000 Illegal Migrants have now crossed the engush migrants have now crossed the English Channel since 2018. The landmark figure was reached today as another 11 dinghies carrying another 550 people were intercepted , attempting to cross intercepted, attempting to cross the channel illegally. In a statement , the Home Office Said statement, the Home Office Said the unacceptable number of people making these dangerous crossings is placing an unprecedented strain on our asylum system in the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in england has reached a new record high. Nhs england found over 7. 5 Million People were waiting to start tre
Another of rishi sunak key priority for 2023. Nicola sturgeon has defended her governments use of taxpayers money for travel upgrades. Scotlands former first minister says the spending probably totalled less than just one flight taken by rishi sunak. More than £14 million has been spentin more than £14 million has been spent in three years by Civil Servants in scotland , including servants in scotland, including £10,000 on vip airport upgrades. Her successor , humza yousaf, has her successor, humza yousaf, has ordered a review and the high street chain wilko has collapsed. Today, the companys appointed administrators, after failing to secure a rescue deal, putting 12,000 jobs at risk. The putting 12,000 jobs at risk. The chain has 400 shops across the uk. The home secretary says uk. The home secretary says anyone who took part in suspected looting on londons Oxford Street yesterday must be hunted down and locked up. Nine people were arrested as police wielding batons clashed with do
The union speech and the latest on jobs. Lets start there, because we just received the report. This is news. 275,000 jobs added to the economy in february. That is way down from the reading in january. The unemployment rate, that kicked up to 3. 9 , but that still is historically a low rate. Heres the Market Reaction to that. Stocks picked up when those numbers were release. They had been down, markets were down, dow up maybe 4, s p up 12, but the nasdaq 40 points ahead in the early going. The 10year yields, theyre coming down. Very close to the 10year, to 4 even. You now at 4. 07. Down just a fraction after those Inflation Numbers jobs numbers. The 2year, 4. 48 . Yields down across the board on those jobs numbers. Bitcoin, 67,000 and change as of now, 67,7. Gas up 1 cent, youve reached 3. 40 for regular. Diesel coming in at 4. 05. All right. Now, the state of the union. It was a Campaign Speech devoted to Bashing Trump and the republicans. We didnt hear much about his policies in a s
Economists were expecting 2. 5 . Recent gdp was also lowered. You can see red across the board with the s p followin falling. The nasdaq down. 8 . Not only the gdp reports weighing on stocks, but you have social media dragging the market with twitter yesterday and facebook today. Olivia nobody likes how much money Mark Zuckerberg is spending. Matt his employees like it. Olivia probably. Heres whats happening on the treasury market. The short end off the yield on the 2year note up i two basis points. Note, little bit of money flowing into that, so yields coming down. Stronger off the back of 2. 3 growth in the Second Quarter. The dollar Index Trading around a fourmonth high. Top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal at this hour the u. S. Economy picking up pace in the Second Quarter, gdp , slightly less than what economists were looking for. The Commerce Department revised the firstquarter figure upward. Grew by out the economy. 6 in the first three months of the year, but it cannot