UNITED STATES
- Futures are up this morning following a call between the Chinese Vice Premier and the U.S. Treasury Secretary
- Job openings are near record highs, passing seven million openings
- Manufacturing, Hotel, & Restaurant workers are all in high demand
- Small Business Sentiment continues to improve
- A congressional committee will grill Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai
- The decline of shopping malls has been a boon to dollar stores
- Stores targeting middle-income Americans have been losing customers and dollar stores have been picking them up
- Dollar General and Dollar Tree are adding 1,000 stores a year and a recession could see further growth for them
OTHER
- Theresa May postponed the Brexit vote after being advised she would lose significantly
- Also, this moment highlighted the absurdity of the whole thing and brought me joy
- Emmanuel Macron promised to raise the minimum wage in an effort to appease the yellow vest protesters
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed the test of a ballistic missile earlier this month
- A vote will be held today that could see the floatation of Dell on the public markets
- The Indian Rupee crashed after the head of the central bank quit suddenly
- India faces a large deficit but India's Prime Minister wanted the central bank to ease monetary policy, basically to print money for him to spend during the election next year
CHINA
- The worlds largest smartphone market has placed restrictions on the sale of iPhones
- a preliminary court ruling said Apple violated patents held by Qualcomm for photo manipulation and touchscreens
- imports of iPhones newer than the 6S will be halted unless Apple makes changes to the phones’ software
Submitted December 11, 2018 at 07:29AM by ogordained https://ift.tt/2zUVkEr
