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for staying up with me. if you if you were brave enough to open the new york times this morning and you turned to the opinion section, this is what you would ve seen. thomas friedman, joe biden is a good man and a good president, he must bow out of the race. ■ç frank bruni, biden cannot go on like this. nicholas kristof, president biden, i ve seen enough. this evening, the entire editorial board of the new york times published this op-ed, to serve his country, president biden should leave the race. mr. biden answered urgent question on thursday night, it was not the answer he and his supporters were hoping for. if the risk of a second from term is as great as he says it is, his dedication leaves him and his party only one choice, the clearest path for democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his life is to deal truthfully with the american public. acknowledge that mr. biden cannot continue his race and try to process to select someone more capable to stand in h ....
the boats there. and we have some pictures this morning from milford on sea on the hampshire coast. you can see the swell the system is creating which has forced the closure of the beach there. the system has already been over north west france, bringing gale force winds. the company s transport minister says a lorry driver was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle, and our reporter has the very latest from there. waves crashing over the sea wall in devon. a car is washed into the sea. this is penzance in cornwall. and there is heavy rainfall and flooding across the country. areas of northern ireland have been flooded. this is the scene in. newry. many schools are putting safety first and will be shut in southampton, hampshire and devon. amber wind warnings, the second highest level of alert, are in place for parts of the south coast. gusts are expected to reach 70 80 mph in the south, and 20-30 to reach 70 80 mph in the south, and 20 30 millimetres of rain is expected to fa ....
the boats there. these pictures are from this morning in milford on sea on the hampshire coast. you can see the swell this system is creating, which has forced the closure of the beach. the system has already been over north west france, bringing gale force winds. the country s transport minister says a lorry driver was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle in the ayn region. our reporter, aruna iyengar, has the very latest. waves crashing over the sea wall in devon. a car is washed into the sea. this is penzance in cornwall. and there is heavy rainfall and flooding across the country. areas of northern ireland have been flooded. this is the scene in newry. storm ciaran is unleashing its power across the country. hampshire county council has declared a major incident for residents in hampshire and the isle of wight. many schools are putting safety first and will be shut in hampshire, southampton and devon. amber wind warnings, the second highest level of alert, are in ....
is under way. it sets the stage for a wednesday decision on whether they ll hike interest rates, or leave them unchanged. our business correspondent erin delmore reports from new york. what do you get when you add strong consumer spending? a tightjob market and remarkable growth. you get a resilient economy, an economy that defied earlier predictions of a recession and one that s not buckling under the weight of the fed s interest rate hikes. see, raising interest rates is the fed s best tool to combat persistently high inflation, which consumers have seen reflected in higher prices for nearly everything. and while inflation has fallen by half from itsjune 2022 high of 7%, it s still higher than the fed s target of 2%. earlier this year, federal reserve policymakers hinted that they may hike interest rates once more before the year is out. they ll have a chance this week or at their last meeting in december, or they could not do it at all. investors and economists are p ....
the yen has been steadily depreciating against the dollar. it recently crossed the 150 yen to dollar threshold. let s speak now to damian thong. he is the head of japanese equity research at financial services firm, macquarie group. it s firm, macquarie group. a big tailwind, especially for it s a big tailwind, especially for exporting from japan. even for exporting from japan. even for manufacturers outside it means a lot of the profits they would generate overseas will be brought back into japan and an attractive rate of exchange. {iii attractive rate of exchange. of course japan s biggest trading partner china will be getting quite a lot of weak economic data, how concerns are japanese companies be? i data, how concerns are japanese companies be? companies be? i think it depends companies be? i think it depends on companies be? i think it depends on the - companies be? i think it depends on the firm. i companies be? i think it. depends on the firm. this a companies be ....