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dame tessa jowell‘s message, in herfirst interview since being diagnosed with a brain tumour. coming up on afternoon live: all the sport, including. phil neville, a rather controversial appointment? absolutely, and definitely not the best start for the new england win in‘s manager. he has apologised for comments he made about women on social media and says they are not a true representation of his character. more on that later. see you later, holly. and the weather. yes, hail storms, severe gales blowing through scotland. things will get better later on but more on that in about half an hour. thanks very much, tomasz, and coming up, what s with the big pout? 1000 camels a dozen camels have been disqualified from a camel beauty pageant in saudi arabia for receiving botox injections. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live and i am simon mccoy. i thought things had changed and it is absolutely clear that they haven t. we have to send a clear message that this is ....
another big asian sell-off. china losing 8.5% in overnight trade and the hang seng in hong kong also dropping 3%. japan a more muted drop but i think you get the picture. europe falling as well. germany and france bearing the brunt of the selling and the drop continues through the usa. we are off the lows of the day but as you can see the dow is moving to the downside by 133 points right now. the nasdaq is off by 46 points. the s&p down by 11. the russell 2000 is down by nearly 1% folks, or 11 points. my old colleague now joins us with more on why china dropped so far, so fast. reporter: volatility returning with a vengeance to the mainland china stock markets. equities plunging more than 8%. the biggest one-day drop in more than eight years on signs beijing might be backing away from supporting the markets. concerns over economic health soured sentiment further. data show china s industrial firms dropped 3% from a year earlier reversing a .6% rise in may. index heavy ....
good afternoon. welcome to the southern festival of looks. my name is andy bennett and i m your session hosts for the day. we are here to hear from sally palmer thomasson and joseph beck about there but that afterward they will be signing their books in the signing colonnade upstairs pretty good buy their books in the selling area the festival will receive a part of the proceeds. and remember while the festival does have some sources of income the main source of income are donations from you. i try to make it very easy for you to donate. you can donate on the festival web site, you can donate on the facebook page or you can use the festival app or if you are old-fashioned you can do it in person at the central headquarters here. our first author who will be speaking is joseph madison back. he s an attorney and atlanta a harvard university grad. he focuses on intellectual property litigation. early copyright and on consumer products. he is also a mediator and the winne ....
hedge funds looking for a high-tech fix to their investment woes. we are halfway into the trading day. as julie hyman joins us with the latest, what is going on? too.ntas are people they are programs made by people at least. we are seeing a mixed session. it is driving in on the plus side. we have whole sales coming in higher than estimated. that has been helping stocks. the dow is still down about 60 points and the s&p a little changed. the nasdaq is up. the nasdaq touched a closing record. the 10 year yield has some buying in the treasury markets, yields down three basis points. we had eric rosengren of the federal reserve saying that the interest rate increase is the base rate of this year. we did not see much market reaction. we continue to still watch the vix which is languishing. we are seeing the inverse correlation between the volatility index and the s&p 500 is weakening as both of them are kind of going sideways. on the top, we have the vix in white which flat ....
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