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President Trump and Chinese President Shi Jimping will meet next week on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea.
As according to the White House, the meeting will be the first face to face for both leaders since Trump became president for his second term.
Here's President Trump.
Speaker 2Actually, on November first, the tariffun China goes to one hundred and fifty seven percent, which is record setting territory.
And we don't want that because it's not sustainable for them.
They can't sustain that.
We don't want them to have to go through that.
So a meeting with President Shean, I would say the first we have some big issues like with the farmers and various other things.
But the first question I'm going to be asking him about is fent and all.
Speaker 1The meeting comes as a trade truce between Washington and Beijing is set to expire on November tenth.
President Trump escalating trade talk tensions with Canada.
On a post on truth Social Trump said that all trade negotiations have now been terminated.
Trump cited an announcement from the Ronald Reagan Foundation, which announced that quote, Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement which is fake featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
They continued on to say that quote they only did this to interfere with the decision of the US Supreme Court and other courts.
Ford Motor expects a profit hit of as much as two billion dollars after a fire struck a key supply of aluminum back in September for its F one to fifty pickup truck.
The impact will reduce Ford's production by around one hundred thousand vehicles this year, although the company expects to largely recover that shortfall next year.
Here's Jim Farley, CEO Ford.
Speaker 3This is really a retiming of wholesale.
What we lose this year will gain most of it back next year.
Maybe a billion and a half to two and a half billion of ebit this year a little bit heavier on the cash because of how auto works, but we'll be gaining at least a billion, if not more, of that back next year.
Speaker 1That's Jim Farley's Ford speaking of Bloomberg.
Intel gave an up the revenue forecast after personal computer demand grew boosting optimism about a comeback attempt by the Embattle chip maker.
In a statement, chief financial officer Dave's Listener said, quote, current demand is outpacing supply, a trend they expect will persistence the next year.
We get reaction from Angelo Zeno, equity analyst at cfr A Research.
Speaker 4Overall, the results were a bit better than expected in terms of Q three.
I think, you know, more importantly was that Q four God.
And you know, when you strip out the fact that they are getting rid of or have you sold Altera at this point in time, you back that out and essentially is in line to relatively where we were looking and the street was looking at.
So I think overall, you know, there was maybe some fear about you know, tariff uncertainties as well as you know, potential pulland and demand for PCs and what have you.
But overall, the Q three numbers look good.
The Q four numbers also look solid.
Speaker 1That's Angelo Zeno of cfr A Research.
The United the States has launched a ninth strike against allegedble carrying drugs in the Pacific Ocean.
President Trump says he doesn't believe that the administration needs a formal declaration of war in their campaign against drug trafficking in South America, but they will brief Congress on the strikes.
Speaker 2I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country.
Okay, we're going to kill them.
You know, they're going to be like dead.
Okay.
Speaker 1Meantime to send It is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.
The US government shutdown is now twenty three days long, encounting lawmakers are not getting any closer to getting legislation passed that would fund the government to reopen it.
Democrats are insisting that they want to open up discussions on extending tax credits that are part of the Affordable Care Act, but Republicans aren't willing to talk until the government reopens.
House Minoriti leader Hakim Jeffrey says President Trump's priorities are misplaced.
Speaker 5Throughout this shutdown.
He's found more time to golf than he has to engage with Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Donald Trump and his administration have found forty billion dollars to bail out a right wing want to be dictator and Argentina and can't find a dime to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits to keep healthcare affordable.
And on top of all of that, they are demolishing the East wing of the White House in ways that have appropriately horrified the American people.
Speaker 1That's House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrey speaking with Bloomberg's David Gura in Washington.
Catch a full conversation on an upcoming episode of The Big Take podcast.
Meantime, the Senate rejected a measure that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown, a day before more than a million workers are set to miss a paycheck.
The US Labor Department has called furloughed employees back to work, though, to put together the Consumer Price Index Report.
Bloomberg TV's Mike Mickey explains what September's numbers out tomorrow could show social Security.
Speaker 6This is a third quarter CPI average to determine next year's cost of living increase for beneficiaries, which by law must be published this month.
The data had all been collected by the time the government shut down on October first, so it's simply a matter of collating it and making the usual seasonal adjustments.
Analysts expect we'll see no appreciable slow down from August, with headline CPI rising four tenths of percent during the month and core three tenths.
That would put the annual rate of inflation at three point one percent for both, Another move in the wrong direction for the Fed.
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