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Lets start with the story thats dominated the uk Political Agenda for the last few days. Rishi sunak says its Utterly Wrong to blame him forfailing to tackle the issue of unsafe concrete in school buldings. As thousands of children return to classrooms today after the summer break, its emerged that more than a hundred schools in england and scotland will be closed or partially shut. Its over Safety Concerns about what is known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. O...

Kick off the final hour of trade. Look at the dow jones industrials, down 40 points. Low of the session, down 291. So a big comeback here. The s p 500 down 19 points, but weve got breaking news on the nasdaq. Right now it is still falling deeper into the correction hole, right now down 122 points. Of course, it tumbled into correction yesterday. Right now the techheavy index though is well off the lows of the session. You can see low of the session a loss of 277, so weve chopped that in half. Ye...

Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Im dominic chu in for wilfred frost. A lot of Christmas Music throughout the course of todays show if you like it, youll love it if not, bear with us even though im not a fan, this is a classic. It is a great song. We have quite a few things that could be driving the trading action looking at the u. S. Futures picture, were seeing stable markets. Weve seen this theme developing, we have not seen major moves in t...

[background noise] [background noise] ladies and gentlemen. We are about to begin. Your seats and silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. [background noise] [background noise] as we mentioned, state governors from across the country are meeting in washington, d. C. Well be covering their meeting this morning and throughout the day, the National Governors association will host panels to talk about jobs, the Opioid Crisis, and the future of agriculture. We will be getting underway in...

Again. Bob iger joins us in a few moments. Apple looks set to continue. But Merrill Lynch adding insult to injury. And tonight tesla and fitbit coming out. But first up disney reported better than expected earnings. But they were hurt by slowed growth at the International Theme parks but still up more than 20 so far this year. And well have an exclusive interview with bob iger in just a few moments from now. Jim, you were up very early reading through the quarter, reading transcripts, i assume. ...

Victims are being let down and suspects left untracked by some Police Forces in england and wales according to a report out today. Her majestyS Inspectorate of constabulary found a third of forces needed improvement. It said a small number were putting the public at unacceptable risk by rationing services as they struggle with cutbacks. Heres our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani. The cornerstone of british policing the bobby on the beat. But are these Vital Community posts being erod...

Its love, believe me. Its love. Mayhem at Donald Trumps rally. Protesters actually got through some Police Barricades where donald trump was speaking. Frthom, ere things quickly descended into chaos. The crowd then began throwing rocks and bottles. It may have started out as entertainment, but now its really, really concerning. Donald trump is a demagogue. He is a bigot. He has nothing to say about the future of this country. Hitting a building. Tornadoes descending on the midwest. Three tornado...

Market minute. U. S. Stocks have begun october, the month in the quarter, weather tends to be quite a bit of volatility, with backtoback losses. Moving higher, reflecting some anxiety. I think its a little deceptive because while it doesnt seem like much, the story today was the brett of the selloff. Everything getting hit on. Joe i will show you that matt i will show you the story right now, using my eye. Imap everything is red, with the exception of financials. Once again, second day in a row ...

Welcome to the program, everybody. This is countdown live from bloomberg headquarters here in london. It is 6 00 here in london. Let us bring you up to speed. We have data out of china, just to tell you that it has not moved the market all that much. We saw a bit of a bounce in the shenzhen composite, the shanghai not moving that far. Estimates,line with industrials up. That is the macro picture. Keep an eye on a micro level, if you like. It is not very micro, but what could be the biggest brewi...

Thank you. In many of the countries where our News Organization operates, this doesnt resonate because the notion of independence doesnt exist in a lot of countries around the world. You know, and particularly for news agencies. I think the standard definition of the news agency in most countries is something that is tied government. And the type of agency that ap and reuters are is sometimes hard for people to comprehend. When i was based in asia, i often had to explain that ap didnt stand for ...