Still a bigger club than reigning champions manchester city. There has been a dramatic escalation of violence in iraq in what is of course already been a chaotic 2 months of antigovernment wrist 1st an attack by unidentified gunmen on protesters in baghdad that killed at least 23 people and of course raise new security concerns they stormed past one of the main protest sites in Killarney Square on friday night no less than 24 hours after that gunfire is again been heard in the capital on saturday sending people running for cover and in what appears to be a related event sources close to the prominent shia cleric thought there say a drone dropped a bomb on his home in jaffna his party says he wasnt there at the time he has been back over all of the antigovernment protests which have swept across the country lets check in with hes in baghdad for us on this news 1st of all the attack on his house is there any new information coming out. Well we heard from a source close to the influential
Over concerns of chinese growth. Onbers out of China Industrial profits. Lets look at what has been going on with them. A little recovery. We got above the dotted line, breakeven, if you will. For april. E 1. 1 . E we got up this informs us about nominal gdp and that would suggest we are on a slight uptick. The bottom of this graph is the ppi. Years of negative prices. We have been positive and remain positive as well. Against this backdrop of where companies do have pricing power, industrial profits ticking higher. Against thehat background of the g20. We have a date for that. President trump stepping up rhetoric against china as he prepares for the crucial meeting in japan. Stephen engle is on the ground for us for that meeting. We have a date for the date. Do. Hen we saturday, just before lunch, 11 30 a. M. Saturday is when president xi jinping and trump will meet. President has a full schedule tomorrow. He will be meeting Scott Morrison of australia for dinner and a whole wave of m
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