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July 16, 2024
Universities write to the uk education secretary calling for more money to help with the cost of taking in extra students following a government u turn on a level grades. And coming up this hour, the three victorian forts originally built to defend england against the french going up for sale. Hello and welcome. If you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The number of people being randomly tested in the com...
July 16, 2024
All of faang higher with names like paypal up 5 today. We have two bad final hours of trade over the last two sessions and we have sold off over the last couple of hours off the session highs as we stand. Ahead on todays show, well speak exclusively with Thomas Barkin on the heels of another massive jobless number why he says we may be at the bottom of the downturn he just said that on a podcast about an hour ago. Plus, former treasury secretary, jack lew, will join us to discuss the governments...
July 16, 2024
Japanese yen is a safe haven. I must say actually, the japanese yen is up than u. S. Dollar and is holding up. Oil is definitely on a buy. Wti, to give us a sense of the volume. Brent crude is saving four times its volume and w. T. I. Is trading six or seven times. The markets are definitely moving with this geopolitical news overnight. Its time for the Global Exchange from around the world. From london to istanbul to prints on, new jersey and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground w...
July 16, 2024
Kicks in in china and the u. S. Manufacturing sector contracts for the first time in more than three years. All three major averages ending the day in the red is this just the beginning of a bigger september slide guy . We talked about it last week. Quite frankly i thought we would rally today, i thought thursday, friday made sense we rallied, i thought we would rally again today and towards the end of the later part of this week, early next week we would start to slide. Things are not bullish f...
July 16, 2024
Killing two supervisors. 38yearold xavier soto and brian light before turning the gun on himself. We go to work and have an expectation to be able to go home at the end of the shift. Reporter police revealing soto was shot at point blank. Light tried to fight the gunman but was shot multiple l times. There is help available. There is help available through the suicide crisis hot line. There is help available by texting connect to 734741. Reporter earlier today the president of the ford dealershi...
July 7, 2024
Another 400 people crossed in eight small boats. Today the arrivals are the first since saturday as bad weather made conditions in the channel largely impassable. The figures add yet more pressure on the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, stopping the small boats is one of his governments key priorities. Shadow financial secretary james murray told us the government must take action. What people want to see, though, is Real Solutions to tackling this problem and thats why weve said that we would go af...
July 3, 2024
The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another universe. It is open to a fair...
July 3, 2024
The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another universe. It is open to a fair...
July 3, 2024
The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another universe. It is open to a fair...
July 3, 2024
Used to modernize the agency. The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another ...