Bright spots. Exports declined less than domestic but weak demand continues to bite. Joining us from hong kong is in karenrrent is in the is enda curran. Is pickingps demand up, and might put a floor on the economy into year end. There was a weaker import, and that underlines that the domestic demand is still weak. We know that new orders of the official manufacturing pmi remain weak as well come us adjusting that bottoming out still has a little bit to go before we can fully call it stabilization in chinas economy. The trade numbers were ok. There were certainly some optimism, but the big picture remains whether the government can push ahead and reach this phase i agreement theyve been talking about. Alix speaking of, the conversation has been to digitally that the phase i deal will happen in a rollback. The ministry of commerce spokesman in china saying that there have been serious discussions, and agreed to remove the tariffs in phases as progress is made on the agreement. What is t
Trump says he and janet yellen are doing well together. This is bloomberg. Im mark barton in london. Stocks marginally higher today, up by a 20th 1 . Overis up a smidgen dollar. Long andng to talk hard about barclays. Look at barclays shares. Down 5. 7 . Deutsche bank down 2 . Getting some details from the norwegian central bank. Rates will be kept unchanged today. Riskslance of economic unchanged since september. Unchanged at 0. 5 . Heres the news with sebastian. Donald trump says hes thinking about getting janet yellen another term as fed chair. Terrific and they are doing very well together. Familiar to people the matter, gary cohn is not open to the fed. Mindel holly faye was speaking asked lucidly to bloomberg. I have a meeting with two banks. They will come and apply for licenses to operate in saudi arabia. Were open. The u. S. House has in responseanctions to irans support for hezbollah. The two bills market first action against iran since President Trump refused to continue the
Back and forth several times before he actually went up to the box upstairs. So i wanted the readers to feel like, what must they have gone through. Imagine for a moment that the president of the United States has been assassinated in your workplace by one of your most admired, respected colleagues. Fearing for your own safety and the fear of being thought complicit. Reelecting in panic that could be construed as hostile to the president. As well as the times you could be seen socializing with the suspect. The more i start theres a saloon on the south side of fords theater. The star saloon. Theres a saloon next door on the north side, the green back saloon. There were a lot of trips to those saloons that day. Near as i can figure booth alone made seven or eight trips over there in the afternoon or evening which gives you some feeling about working up his courage for what he did. From that moment on, your world would never be the same. You would be intear gated, perhaps imprisoned. You
Clouds. Were getting closer to average. We could have some early afternoon showers. But not a green belt. 57 degrees in the union. Its 61 along the lakefront. The skies had cleared out. A few scattered storage hours popped up yesterday and overnight things have settled down now. A few showers could come back later on. That flow continues to keep us cooler than average. Or going to throw in a 20 percent chance for a scattered showers by midday. Many of us will not see it but we will see those showers and some isolated thunderstorms. 83 tomorrow. A spotty showers or thunderstorms. A better chance on friday. Everything looks good out there this morning. Dealing with roadwork because one of those means spots is on i 55 and lake shore drive. This continues so as youre approaching i 551 lane is out. And the ramp from sao paulo short south bound by five will be out as well until 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Less than two hours ago, the cubs just wrapped up their longest game in team history. And some
R fizzling out across southern wisconsin. We will have some son of the clouds will buildup in the action we may have some showers. Its going to be warmer today at 82. 80s all the way through saturday. As chance of showers is moral but even then they will be scattered. Hal is the committee looking . Bling closures on the jane addams were from earlier this morning all part of the extensive resurfacing project that will be in place for some time. The to have some hot pockets of construction to break down for you along with a quick peak of your travel times in just a few minutes. Charges are pending against the person responsible for a multi vehicle crash that killed an elderly man on the north side. 71yearold frank kiley was loading groceries into the trunk of his car at sheridan and balmoral yesterday morning, when he was hit and pinned against his car. Witnesses say the driver of the other car was speeding and ran a red light, causing a Chain Reaction crash that included a cta bus. Four