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We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We are going to start with the latest in asia, where chinese officials concluded the biggest meeting of the year in china. The gathering of the communist Partys Central Committee focused on the economy and hong kong protests. Going me is and occur in joining me is enda curran. What did we learn . ,nda it was a fourday closeddoor meeting. They spoke mostly about rising domestic and international risks, and of course, the backed up domestically being the slowing economy, unrest in hong kong, and internationally, trade war with the u. S. We didnt get any Major Economic initiatives out of it, but we did get some signals that it is doubling down on party control, and ensuring much stricter oversight of hong kong. There was no sense of compromise when it comes to dealing with protesters. Alix thank you so much. Now we went to head to germany, w
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