At whatstake a look going on in to those brexit talks. The pound is up by. 2 . Stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollaryen is up to. 6 . 58 basis points. Thats really steep. Time for the morning brief. Ahead. A look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with Jeanclaude Juncker. Then social democrats hold their convention. Congress has to act to avoid a Government Shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u. S. Jobs numbers. Big week ahead. Topics tax, u. K. , cvs buying aetna. The talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. Had towhat the senators say. When you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15 right from the beginning. Is parted to a 20 rate of the discussion. The house as a 20 right now. We are happy with both of those numbers. If something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a casebycase basis. Business tax all the way down from 35 to 20. It could be
Las ramblos area very popular with tourists this is the height of the tourist season he plowed into a group of people at the Plaza Catalunya then the man jumped out of the van and fled on foot no word as to whether or not he has been apprehended shortly after that reuters reported that two men entered a local restaurant with guns in that plaza area as well. Nbc has not independently confirmed that there are mixed reports as to whether or not this is being considered a terrorist incident. There is only one source that is calling it that. The police have not independently confirmed that to us or to nbc news. At this point we do know that there are injuries we do not know how many. There are unconfirmed reports of one death. Nbc has not confirmed that either we do know that the police have cordoned off that area there is a massive Emergency Response to it reuters is reporting that the Emergency Services and police have requested that mass transit and rail System Service to that particular