Us treasury secretary janet yellen called the downgrade arbitrary and said Economic Conditions had improved under the biden administration. The news of the downgrade came after the close of trade on wall street but in asia investors have been pulling out of equities in reaction. Lets look at markets now in asia. Japan is currently down by over 2 . Hong kong not that far behind. This was off the back of yesterday, and most of this week we have seen the sharemarket, certainly wall street and asia having a strong session but this is certainly spooked sentiment. Lets discuss this with tom stevenson, whos an Investment Director at fidelity. Good morning. Janet woody allen saying this is arbitrary. I have her statement janet yellen and she said she strongly disagrees and says it is based on outdated data. That is based on outdated data. That is riuht. Is based on outdated data. That is right it is based on outdated data. That is right. It seems is based on outdated data. That is right. It s
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Will become drier and quieter as we head into the night. The gusty wind easing and changing direction and the more persistent rain pushing away and eventually we see some clearer skies later in the night. Theres Temperature Holding at around 11, 13 degrees by tomorrow morning. By Which Point Storm Patricia is heading away. And following that we get the wind coming in from the north or north west. A cool breeze blowing as we head into tomorrow. That brings with it a mixture of sunshine and showers. The best of the sunshine early on, The Cloud Building quickly and we have showers in northern parts of scotland from the word go and they could develop almost any word tomorrow. The threat of some thunderstorms around. But with Shelter Temperatures in glasgow could reach 20 degrees. And a bit warmer along the south east. But on friday most of the showers will be coming in because Eastern Parts of england with the threat of thunderstorms later in the day in the south east. Maybe not quite as w
amanda renteria and brian taylor, political commentator and columnist of the herald newspaper. hello welcome to the programme. government forces in ukraine are trying to seize the initiative before the arrival of winter. a counter offensive is already under way in the south of the country, around kherson, the only city that russian forces have captured west of the strategically important dnipro river. but the ukrainians are now preparing to expand that operation in the donbas to the east and also around kharkiv in the north. our correspondent quentin sommerville and camera journalist in the donbas to the east and also around kharkiv in the north. our correspondent quentin sommerville and camera journalist darren conway have had exclusive access to a unit of ukrainian troops, near the front line. in donbas, there will be no harvest. as russian shells fall, about us these fields and furrows are instead ploughed gun tracks and fighting men. ukraine s national guard leads us thro
Food delivered to their door. us regulators are investigating around 280,000 new tesla model 3 and model y vehicles over reports the cars lose their power steering. this is the first step of a formal investigation to determine if the issue poses an unreasonable safety risk. tesla declined to comment on the investigation. prime minister rishi sunak and the energy security secretary grant shapps will meet energy industry leaders today in an effort to strengthen the uk s energy independence. the meeting follows monday s announcement about new north sea oil and gas licensing, alongside support for two further carbon capture and storage projects. ministers will meet the heads of shell, bp and other big uk energy players in downing street. we re nowjoined by richard black,