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The trade war and tariffs are having on farmers across the u. S. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, august 17. We read that nearly one quarter of the electorate this time around will be 65 or older and seniors vote at a much higher percentage than others. We ask seniors only to call in this morning. What are your top issues for campaign 2020 . If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202 7488000. Wes...

Socalled macrow and listen to individual companies on a day the dow slid, s p lost. 79 and nasdaq shed 6. 8 because treasury yields cantonu to sink and the president terrified the market you dont know the term terrified . You better get used to it. Others were focused on tariffied, i was focus on home depot because when im trying to take the pulse, home depot gives me a better read from the bond market or any talking people on tv home depot has all sorts of insights you cant get from staring at ...

Slowing. Is said to be china is trying to funnel more credit to private companies. We will assess the implications in beijing. A quick check of our markets close in the u. S. It was a bit of a mixed picture. We saw the dow gained 50 points. The s p 500 erased this mornings gains. Fed officials with a little bit of caution about future rate cuts. To mention we have some soft manufacturing pmi numbers. That did not help sentiment. Cared materials and Health Leading the declines after fluctuated be...

Departure of the ceo, flint, in the role, amid a report that thousands of employees are set to lose their jobs. The yuan slides to the lowest in a decade, with the move being called normal, promising to keep the currency stable weve got some final pmi numbers for the yoeurozone it is in line with the estimate we got a few days back june number was 52. 2 this is a threemonth low. Services pmi is 53. 2 thats slightly lower than the flash of 53. 3 and slightly lower than the june final number we sa...

Chinese Telecom Giant huawei says there has been a dramatic slowdown in sales growth in the midst of the trade war. He hints at even tougher days ahead. Capital one shares drop after a data breach. They say data on 100 million customers hacked. All of it stored on Amazon Web Services. A former amazon employee has been charged. Shares spiking after hours after reporting thirdquarter results. Revenue topped analyst estimates. Apple saying it remains optimistic about potential sales of new Iphone M...

We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, w...

Overcrossing at the tolls right now. Some usual slow and go traffic on westbound 580 from tracy to dublin, 33 minutes. Elsewhere, pretty quiet. A nice drive through the dublin grade to mission boulevard in fremont. Northbound 85 looking great from highway 101 to cupertino in the sbai. We have new details this morning on changes sfmta is making after that deadly crash on taylor and ofarrell streets in San Francisco. Sfmta met with Community Leaders in the tenderloin to discuss Traffic Safety conc...

Increasing clouds this morning. Notice by noon the breezes pick up. Were 58 at the coast, 70 to 75, delightful lunch hour. Notice at 4 00, what happened to the 90s . Mid 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay. 50s, 60s and 70s at 7 00. We get a summer hiatus. Ill tell you how long it lasts. Frances, whats going on . Sky 7 on east bay 92 coming across the san mateo bridge, a flatbed tow truck went off the freeway. The two right lanes blocked for a while. You can see its causing minor delays in the ea...

Market. The german tenyear is now at 60. We wait to see what the ecb does. Brent crude continuing to drop in a bear market, today falling by another free. 4 . Another 3. 4 . Vonnie we are getting a surgeon bonds. We are joined by Cumberland Advisors chairman and cio. What you make of the last 24 hours in the bond market . Guest it is extraordinary. We have a three front war. Trade front protectionism, weve been doing that for a year. We now have a declared currency war. We are seeing it in the c...

Is it the Panama Papers all over again a leak reveals how most siphons tax from poor nations to benefit elites we go live to brussels to dick dicker. Also coming up how homebase chocolate production can help bring quality of life back to conflict regions in the democratic republic of congo. And to africas working age population is expected to surpass both asias and europes by the end of the century. What to jobs will be available and where. I come to do business africa i want to get jones and be...