satisfy european commission competition concerns and shares jump to the top on talks to spell the end of its partnership for ocado. well, good morning, everybody, welcome to street signs. and happy monday as you can see behind me, the picture is perhaps not as positive start for the week for equities and this is in line with some of the sentiment we had in asian equities overnight where some of the majors did take a bit of a nose dive in terms of sentiment. all of the majors there are trading weaker nikkei down .6%. it is a big week as far as china/u.s. trade talks are concerned. we know that the u.s. vice premier is heading to washington for talks with lighthizer about u.s./china trades and there had been a little bit of optimism priced in forwards the end of last week that seemed to fettered out in yesterday s session. and, of course, one of the main stories drove markets into the green on friday was news that the u.s. shutdown will be partially suspended for the next
good morning. well, welcome to the america s office of the international institute of statistics that these. my name is dana allen, i am a senior fellow at the london office, and also editor of the iiss journal, survival which is the reason we are here tonight. next to me i have the co-authors of the lead article in our june-july issue. professors. peter is professor of political science and public policy at duke university and he also directs the american grand strategy program and the triangle institute for security studies from june 2005 to june 2007. studies from june 2005 to e 2007. he was on leave as is national advisor for strategic running and as additional reform on the national security staff of the george w. bush white house. he s the author or coauthor of five books including pain, the human costs of war. published by princeton in 2009. and to my far left, dr. hal brands is the henry kissinger distinguished of distinguished professor of global affairs of joh
yesterday s rain would appreciate a pocketful of sunshine. let s get right to our meteorologist to tell us about that. i m going to have the mother of all forecasts. oh. oh hey. twitter feed. yeah, it s going to be a beautiful day. right now few clouds closing in from the west, you can see the sun right now spreading across the nation s capitol. starting off calm and partly cloudy. although we are getting a few sprinkles to our north and west, those are tracking into montgomery county now, but they ll be gone over the next half hour. temperatures in the 40s. quite a chill in the air. reagan national at 47 degrees. for the d.c. bike ride by 8:00, partly cloudy, still in the mid-50s, getting mild by 10:00 a.m. into the mid-60s, then noontime, the low 70s, and during the afternoon with the bright sunshine, we ought to hit the upper 70s. look at even hotter weather on the way over the next ten days, that s in a few minutes. thank you an hour responding to unusual ca
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