People disappear from westminster and it is quiet. You have been reading about the problems, and that is something on the social scene i suppose, and the controversy over which songs should end the problems, a musical event that happens every year. Of course it is much scaledback. I am preoccupied by the latest comings and goings. Tom we have Economic Data on thursday, jobless claims. What is the trend of the economy that you see . Right now in america aims to be almost a two art economy, very separate. A twopart economy, very separate. Anna we are talking this morning about the kshaped recovery. Going to john olsens great piece this moaning about how tech stocks do well, value stocks, other left behind sectors not doing as well. Even as we look at the u. S. Right now. Also really dominating in the news overnight. Anna a recovery, kitd juckes writing on that as well. An unusual august. For our briefing with first word news, there is ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and speakers at
Stuart shake it out. Florence and the machine. Okay, lets move on. Good morning, everybody. Its 10 00 eastern. Straight to the money. Look at this on the markets. Weve got the dow industrials now up just over 100 points and nasdaq down 25. Not that much big Time Movement in stock prices this wednesday morning. The 10year treasury yield, we have it at 4. 22 now. The price of oil, 81 per barrel and gas prices by the way are still going up 90, there you have it. Bitcoin, not moving much, 29,059 per coin. Thats the markets on a wednesday morning. Now this, for 40 years, from 1980 to 2020, china was the marvel of the world. It became the workshop of the world. A stellar performer where hundreds of millions were lifted out of abject poverty. That was the mantra, it is deal. Leave us in power and well make you prosperous. That was the deal. It worked. Now its not working and you have to wonder what happens to the deal. The pandemic was the pivot. A long and near total lockdown was imposed and
Steps together the u. S. And turkey agreed to Work Together on syria as the conflict dominates talks during the secretary of States Rex Tillerson visit to the region. Cyril ramaphosa is to deliver his first state of the nation address a south africas new president a struggling economy and corruption are some of his key challenges. Also in the next sixty minutes Political Uncertainty in ethiopia after the sudden resignation of the Prime Minister. And. Day seven at the Winter Olympics in pyongyang chuang. Dream of becoming the first skier to win four gold medals at a single games is over she finished fourth in her best event. Ok lets get going in the last hour the u. S. And turkey have agreed to normalize relations after their talks in ankara the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has been Holding Discussions with his turkish counterpart cover saw two times between the two countries have been strained over recent months particularly over u. S. Support for kurdish fighters in syria bu
A watch dog Group Reporting 475 a employees received raises . The 2016 fiscal year this is video from that crane incident yesterday. But well have more on the story about the mayor staffers coming up and raises they got. J maybe they ran from the city hall area and went to worlded trade and tried to help out over there. They would deserve 140 raise, of course, why not . Teresa is on that sandra, shes a fan of our show and shes a great tweeter and wrote meanwhile my husband nypd who puts his life on the line daily cant even get a decent raise smh. J talk about that story morning and a lot of uk taw about weather first of all, are we going to get the arod game in tonight and concerts look this weekends . Central park. I think theyre going to happen out there butten cans will miserable and chance was storms theyre out there for both afternoon and evening so timing not good either. You see what happened yesterday similar to that and theyre hit and miss all over the place. So luck of the dr
Antwan the man that climbed trump tower using suction cups facing criminal charges. Coming up at 7 30, we will speak with two of the officers involved in taking this guy down. Rosanna an exclusive on good day new york. Tonight, a rod will play his final game in pinstripe. A preview of the big bronx farewell. A little emotional, it was very emotional at the berkeley center, and it was like butter. Do you remember that from saturday night live. The emotional songs, listen to this voice. . Rosanna did you get chills . I am getting chills again. Her voice is magnificent. It really is. She had so many hit albums, one of my favorites, enough is enough, this is from my crack telephone, cell phone. . Antwan is that enough . It was in the summer. Rosanna it was so great. Beautiful. Her voice is magnificent. It was really fun. She had special guest jamie fox. And a mentalist who has been on our show a few times, leroy will be on our show in the 9 00 hour, we will talk about his barber experience