Negotiations. Mcdonalds reveals its comeback recipe. The ceo serves up a turnaround plan. We look at what could change. Welcome to countdown. Im manus cranny. Im caroline hyde. Coming up come a bloomberg exclusive. Amen considered the last a man considered europes last dictator. Have how the competence impacted his country. Lets begin with asia. Estimates adding further weight to forecasts that policymakers could step up stimulus to support this is a little bit of a different story versus the official data. That is right. New orders fell sharply. That basically evaporated. Overall reduction was stagnant. Not a good report in this april survey. Let me take a look at the numbers with you. This is the steepest contraction in a year. He shows chinas economic challenges the slowdown in economy, it may take more stimulus to arrest it. That is one of the reasons we are seeing market move higher. We will get to that in a moment. Back to these numbers. The pressure is on to roll out the new sti
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Helen taft was more ambitious about getting to the white house that her husband William Howard taft and was willing to get personally involved with politics to get him elected. Illness toe a series directly manage the white house, invited top Classical Musicians to perform their, and supported causes that matter to her. She also has one of the most visible legacies of all of the first ladies. Trees thatcherry bring tens of thousands of visitors to washington every year. Good evening and welcome to first ladies. The life of helen taft. Her husband served in the white house. Here to tell us about her life is her buyer for biographer lewis gould. You open the book by making the case that of the 20th century first ladies, she is the most of your that you say she deserves better from history. My why she deserves better tell me why she deserves better. And she did things that were very constructive. The cherry trees, bringing Classical Musicians to the white house, and generally trying to ma
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