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Estimates by about 0. 30. Revenue was also better than estimated, and they see revenue up, so that stock jumping in the premarket. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to brussels, des moines, iowa and new york, our bloomberg forces are on the ground with the latest top stories. Chinese growth and imports beat expectations. With us from hong kong is in the curran. Is enda walk us through the numbers. Numbers. Ty good a couple of factors behind these good trade numbers, sentiment was much better in the month of december and late last year in advance of the trade agreement that is going to be signed this week. There was an element of front running of the orders because in Chinese New Year falls january. A base effect gives the numbers a bit of a polish, but also importantly, china found new markets even as it suffered from tariffs on its goods going into , ....
ASHEVILLE - A former lieutenant governor candidate, a long-time top county elected official and an influential racial justice scholar are asking a federal judge for leniency in the sentencing of ex-county Commissioner Ellen Frost, who was convicted of corruption. The dozen letters from former lieutenant governor candidate Terry Van Duyn, ex-Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair David Gantt, UNC Asheville political science professor emeritus Dwight Mullen and others were submitted by Frost s attorney in advance of her April 28 sentencing by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Conrad in Asheville. Ellen Frost ran for the right reasons and worked hard to make Buncombe County a better place. I hope during your deliberations, you will find it possible to take into consideration the good she did while serving Buncombe County, said Van Duyn, who served seven years as a Democratic North Carolina state senator from Buncombe. ....