Higher as inflation data fuel hopes for a soft landing for the u. S. Economy. The bank of japan holds and unscheduled bond buying operation. Manufacturing contracting for a fourth straight month in another that the economy is failing to find traction. Youll kashkari says the u. S. Inflation outlook is positive but warns higher Interest Rates could still see some job losses. Christine lagarde says the ecb could hike again even after a pause next time. Happy monday. The start of a new week. And the end of the month. August and september tend to be if you look at history some of the worst two months for the s p 500. Strategists are asking, is it time to brace for a selloff . U. S. Equity futures pointing to a lower opening. As for treasuries, the question that lingers from friday is whether japanese investors will rush home in pursuit of highyield out that the bank of japan has tweeted its program. The japanese are some of the biggest investors and buyers of u. S. Debt so will treasuries
Place here in the uk is one of the most robust systems in the world. We felt that the idea of criminalisation would change the burden of proof, would actually make it harder to investigate these incidents and actually you could end up incidents and actually you could end up with a lesser punishment if you went through the criminal procedures. So we genuinely think the system we have in place is the right one. Some other stories now. Venus williams has recorded her first win at the end of season wta tour finals in singapore. After defeat in her opener, the seven time grand slam winner beat french open champion jelena ostrapenko in a hard fought three sets, 7 5, 6 7, 7 5. Karolina pliskova secured her place in the semifinals with a straight sets win over wimbledon champion muguruza. She had already beaten williams in her opening match and sort of muguruza 6 3, 6 2. Saw off. Kyle edmund is through to the second round of the Erste Bank Open in vienna after a straight sets win over david fe
Im katherine downes. Humbled down under. Englands Rugby League Campaign starts with a defeat to defending champions australia. On the brink of glory a top five finish for Lewis Hamilton in mexico this weekend and a fourth world title will be his. England on their best behaviour promises from captainjoe root as the ashes squad prepare to fly to australia without ben stokes. We know that what has happened hasnt been good enough. We are determined to get that right. Also coming up on the programme. Will they cope without kane . Spurs will be missing their star striker when they take on Manchester United at old trafford tomorrow. Im in cardiff ahead of Anthony Joshuas latest world title fight. Its a big weekend of sport with that anthonyjoshua fight, Lewis Hamiltons fourth world title almost in the bag, and some big clashes in the premier league but it all kicked off with the start of the Rugby League World cup this afternoon where england lost their first match of the tournament to the od
So presumably theres a guarantee these initial customers will actually get their hands on the device. The iphone x is important, because its about protecting margins at the Company Margins dipped below 38 guidance now is for margins to recover to 38 to 38. 5 , which means that the cost of the device is okay for customers and theres a real enthusiasm for the iphone x which is more expensive than the latest upgrade to the iphone 8. Sales of the device will be closely watched. There have been declining expectations on the back of some initial reports about what the x looked like and also production to where street forecasts dipped 2 2. 8 billion from when the iphone event was first launched to where we are today. So the market was guiding lower on what it was expecting from the new device when you talk about the device, why is it important . Hardware is about 90 of sales at apple as opposed to Services Revenue. Lets show you what were seeing on the boards in europe. It will come down to t
Injured, several children. Several of the victims were flown to area hospitals in critical condition. One other person was taken by ambulance. Contra costa county sent five ambulances and three helicopters. Chp shut down three lanes of traffics traffic for the helicopters to land to get to the victims as quickly as possible. With the incident being spread out on highway four, we had all of our resources on the highway, we could quickly triage and transport from the ambulance to the helicopter. Thats why we landed them on the freeway. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. We are following developing news out of dinwiddie, virginia where gunfire erupted during a concert at the motorsports park. Two people have been shot, both taken to the hospital with non lifethreatening injuries. One person was hit by a car, all this during the big five state bike rally that was expected to draw 10,000 people. So far no arrests have been made. The investigation is ongoing. We will contin