>> THIS IS HORIZONS MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA. OUR TOP STORIES. THE SENATE HAS PASSED A TEMPORARY FUNDING BILL THAT COULD END THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.THE HOUSE PLANS TO VOTE ON THE MEASURE WEDNESDAY BEFORE SENDING IT TO DONALD TRUMP SIGN. AND SYRIA'S PRESIDENT SECURES ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS RELIEF DURING HIS HISTORIC MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND UNREST IN TANZANIA.AUTHORITIES ORDER THE ARREST OF SENIOR LEADERS OF THE MAIN OPPOSITION LEADER FOLLOWING DISPUTED PROTESTS. AND IT'S JUST GONE PAST 9 ...

European futures pointing higher. US futures, though, don't look quite so pretty. Pointing a little bit lower is the benefit.The risk on from the shot down, Is that limited. Is that shot down. Disappearing, I should say, is not limited and down.I think that the price action is quite worrying despite the gains. And what I mean by that is that we seem to be very jittery and moving very rapidly on relatively low volumes. We the shutdown resolution, which we expect this week, will obviously be good news, that t ...

How significant then is this new wave of store openings for LVMH and its China strategy. At a time when we're thinking about deflation in China, a pretty weak consumer housing market that is certainly not recovered. What is driving the shift back towards luxury spending if indeed we are seeing that.Right. So the scale of the new store openings is certainly significant because we're talking about four major LVMH brands, including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany and Loro Piana, and they're all opening multi-stor ...

The head of the UK's national broadcaster, the BBC, and the boss of BBC News, have quit in a dispute over editing that stretched all the way to the White House. At the center of the Fiori was a documentary by the BBC which featured remarks by Donald Trump. It spliced together sections of the US president's speech on January the 6th, 2021, the day of the capital riots.The edit made Trump appear to say that his supporters should walk down to the capital and fight like hell. In fact, he said they should cheer ...

What do we know then about this potential deal between the Swiss and the US. Well, as you were saying, our reporting shows that the Swiss are optimistic they'll get this rate down to 15%, which would bring it into line with the EU. And obviously, a significant amount of relief there for the Swiss.Donald Trump was asked about it. He said that he thinks there also might be a deal before too long, but he wasn't drawn on that essential figure of 15%. What we know is the Swiss have been mounting essentially a ch ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa has met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. The Syrian leader pledged to join a US led coalition to defeat the Islamic State. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also suspended comprehensive sanctions on Syria for 180 days.Trump described al-Shara as a tough leader while hinting at further announcements could be coming soon. You can expect some announcements on Syria. We want to see Syria become a country that's very successful and I think this leader can do it.I really ...

GLOBAL HEAD BANK OF BANKING AT UBS AND COHEAD OF THE BUSINESS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. I WANT TO PICK UP ON A POINT THAT AVERILL WAS MAKING ABOUT GOOD CONSUMER CONFIDENCE NUMBERS WE'VE HAD, HIGHEST IN NOVEMBER. IT GOES TO WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THREE OF THE BIG BANKS LAST WEEK.THEY ARE ALL SOUNDING UPBEAT ABOUT CREDIT QUALITY, BUSINESS CONFIDENCE AND THE CONSUMER SECTOR AS WELL. IS THAT THE WAY HE WOULD CHARACTERIZE THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY AT THE MOMENT. FROM AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE, YES.WE HAVE SEEN IF ...

What is it about Singapore that makes it I don't know why I sort of assumed they did the same 99-year land base and that similar >> this is the most interesting thing they start off with all the inherited things that Hong Kong starts off with. You know up until the middle of the 20th century the cities are run on very very similar lines. Hong Kong goes off in one direction and Singapore goes off in another.And the Singaporean direction is basically how do you maximize home ownership right um permanently. Ho ...

It was a big night for Democrats on Tuesday. The very next morning, the president of the United States was blaming the shutdown in part for those electoral losses and he told Republican senators to figure out a way out of this, which is why it seemed like Democrats were winning the messaging war and polls would suggest that that's the case as well. Now that this has happened, Congresswoman, does it derail efforts by Democrats to retake the House in the midterms.You know, I think that Tuesday's message from ...

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