One of europes Migration Choke Points is gasping. More than 8000 arriving in lampedusa in just three days this week, more than the whole population of the italian island. The Migrant Centre built to hold 400 was at ten times its capacity congested, chaotic, some trying any futile way to get free. Today, two new arrivals rather more planned. The italian Prime Minister, giorgio meloni, and the eu president , Ursula Von Der Leyen to see for themselves the turmoil at europes door. Italys leader is under pressure, elected with promises to curb migration. Numbers are now double the same period last year. Translation what is at stake here is the future, future that europe wants to set for itself. And it is very important to be able to tackle the huge, massive challenges which lie ahead for us, especially in terms of illegal immigration. The eu president offered more help from the bloc s border force to crack the smugglers and more efforts to distribute migrants across europe, something severa
we will discuss the racial tension sweeping the states and how president and vice president biden are addressing them, and then later with a former new york state democratic party director. kevin mentioned how investors are trying to figure out what this means for the market. it is a mixed picture in the u.s.. the dow leading the decline. let s get a market check. joining us is bloomberg scarlet fu. what are you seeing? scarlet: the dow is the laggard. this is after it was reshuffled to account for apple stock split spirit apple waiting goes down, salesforce added to make up for lack of tech representation. walmart is the worst performer on the dow. would block a possible sale of tiktok. u.s. stocks finishing august with a bit of a whimper. tech in the lead even with microsoft losing ground. miller had said this could trigger a sell the news event. it is not happening right now but perhaps down the road. today s mixed picture follows a blockbuster month and summer for equitie
Report by US-China Economic and Security Review Commission finds the value of roughly 256 Chinese companies on US markets slid 17.5 per cent from 2022.
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