We start in asia, where the british pound has fallen sharply, amid investorfears over a no deal brexit. Its now at a 28 month low against the us dollar. It comes as the uk Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has toughened his rhetoric on brexit. Michael gove, who is in charge of planning for a no deal exit from the eu, says britain is currently, working on the assumption of that outcome. Lets take a look now at where sterling is against the us dollar. Currently it stands at 1. 126. The bbcs Sharanjit Leyl has been monitoring trade across asia from our business hub in singapore. Bring us up to date on what the pound has been doing against the major basket of currencies overnight. While that is right, as you said, it continues to slide and has been sliding here in asia, lurking at the more than two year low against the us dollar that you just read out. Trading lower than it was in the initial plunge brought on by the brexit vote in 2016. To set it all into context, it hasnt been this low since
Its been a big news week on both sides of the atlantic with the budget dominating the domestic agenda, and in the united states, the president s state of the Union Address and super tuesday. The latter, a series of primary votes in 15 states and one territory, crucial in selecting the candidates for this autumn s president ial election, pretty much confirmed what we already knew that were heading for a Rerun Contest of biden versus trump. The bbc s coverage elicited this response from graham, in chingford. Last week, we broadcast a plea from viewer alan watts for a ban on the word expected and on speculation in general in regard to coverage leading up to the budget. As we speculated might be the case, his appeal fell on deaf ears. So, do we have any sense of which taxes might be cut . The government wants a positive headline, so we understand they are carrying on with trying to cut personal taxes. Weve got the chancellor in two days time. If he was listening tonight, what are you hopin
Allowing rain chances to increase for the valley today, tomorrow and thursday partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies will be common with our best rain chances starting at 5am this morning and continuing until 5pm tonight however, rain chances do extend clear into the overnight and into thunderstorms. High temperatures will range between 83 and 88 degrees throughout the city with winds increasing through the afternoon. 1020 mph winds will be common with an occasional gust between 25 and 30 mph. Winds extend into wednesday where rain chances are peak between 2pm and 5am thursday morning. By thursday afternoon into the early evening, we will clear out the chance for rain but winds pick up for a last push. Around 50 mph. This only last into the later morning and then winds will die down just in time for the weekend. High temperatures will be at their lowest of friday; ranging between 77 and 83 degrees. The weekend will yield sunny were getting our first look at the man accused of shooting tw
The national conversation. Hes been in the having his moment in the sun this week. Something that was not guarantee guaranteed that he would ever have. I think that makes it a really good week for scott walker being taken serious for the first time. Hes visible now. Hes going to be traveling overseas. Well talk about him in a moment. More about him. Jeb bush had the best week for me. Just on the Detroit Economic Club speech alone. Very well received and i continue to believe his greatest strength will culminate at the edge of the year when its time to pick a president , when republicans are looking for a nominee, the speech he gave, the thoughtfulness of it, not long on specifics, and the quality of his performance during the q a, hes in the major leagues and he proved it and i think a lot of donors are going to see it. Speech very strong in the sense that it was a speech could he give in the general election which is almost the biggest thing in president ial politics right now is jeb