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McCabe is trying to ‘audition as a resistance figure’ like Comey did: Chris Stirewalt

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is following in the footsteps of his old boss, ex-FBI Director James Comey, Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt argued.

Ahead of his book tour launch, McCabe made some explosive claims during an interview on “60 Minutes” claiming that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein talked about invoking the 25th Amendment following Comey’s firing and how Rosenstein repeatedly offered to wear a wire to the White House in order to collect evidence against President Donald Trump.

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During the Special Report All-Star panel, Stirewalt, The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway, and Washington Post opinion writer Charles Lane, weighed in on the political fallout of McCabe’s return to the spotlight.

Stirewalt began by referring to McCabe as a “pocket James Comey” when drawing comparisons between the two former FBI officials.

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“You have a guy essentially leaving in disgrace, you have a guy who is not esteemed by either party, you have a guy in an inspector general’s report found him to have lied to his colleagues about leaking. And then he says, ‘Well, Comey said I could leak.’ And Comey said, ‘I never said that,’” Stirewalt told the panel.

“There are so many contradictions, there’s so much wrong here and what he’s pretty obviously trying to do, as Comey did before him, audition as a resistance figure. He wants to be embraced by Democrats and liberals and say “I am part of this, I am with you now.’ It’s not going to wash.”

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Mollie Hemingway pointed out the “two alternative stories” that have been told during the Trump presidency, one saying that President Trump “is a traitor who was compromised by Russia” or the DOJ/FBI “acted horrifically” and that the Mueller probe was set up “under false pretenses.”

Meanwhile, Charles Lane told the panel that the outcome of the Mueller probe is “all in the hands” of new Attorney General William Barr and how he is “full-fledged” since he hasn’t been recused from the Russia investigation.

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Oil boost fails to lift European stocks as earnings kick-off

The German share price index DAX graph at the stock exchange in Frankfurt
FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Staff

April 23, 2019

By Agamoni Ghosh and Medha Singh

(Reuters) – European shares fell on Tuesday as battery maker Umicore kicked off a busy week of earnings with a grim outlook and investors grew concerned about China cutting additional support to its economy, but a rally in oil and gas stocks helped temper losses.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.3 percent by 0930 GMT after seven straight sessions of gains, with all major indices in the red except oil major-heavy London’s FTSE 100 which rose 0.4 percent.

Earnings started to roll in on a not-so-positive note with Umicore tumbling 16 percent, after the Belgian group warned revenue and earnings growth in 2020 will be lower than previous indications due to delays in the electric vehicle and energy storage markets.

Umicore’s slide weighed heavily on Belgium’s blue chip Bel 20 Index, pulling it 1.5 percent lower.

Car part suppliers Plastic Omnium and Faurecia also reported first quarter results. Plastic Omnium slid after warning of a decline in worldwide auto production, but Faurecia rose 1.5 percent after the company met its full-year target.

Belgium’s Melexis, which supplies semiconductor solutions for cars, slipped 6 percent after first quarter net income tumbled.

“We’re pausing for breadth ahead of a fairly busy week of earnings after a decent winning streak,” said Jasper Lawler, head of research at London Capital Group in London.

The banking index eased from six-month highs with major European banks as UBS, Credit Suisse and Barclays slated to report earnings late this week after last week’s mixed bag of results from big Wall Street banks.

“We’ve seen the likes of record profits from J.P. Morgan but nothing close in Europe. The numbers aren’t going to be great,” said Lawler.

Earnings numbers from some of the biggest S&P 500 companies, including Boeing Co, Amazon.com Inc and Facebook Inc, are also due this week.

Payments company Wirecard was among the biggest decliners after Germany’s markets regulator Bafin’s two-month ban on short-selling ended on Friday.

Ahold Delhaize slid after the Dutch supermarket warned that a strike at its Stop & Shop chain in U.S. would hurt its underlying 2019 profit margin, as it missed out on around $200 million on Easter week sales.

Renault fell 1.4 percent after Nissan Motor Co Ltd said it would reject a management integration proposal from its French partner and called for an equal capital relationship, according to a Nikkei report.

Also weighing on sentiment was Beijing’s indication to tone down its stimulus measures following unexpected signs of recovery from first-quarter economic data last week.

CRUDE LIFT

The oil and gas sector was among the lone bright spots with Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum and Total, up between 1.7 percent and 2 percent.

Oil prices were at 2019 highs on Tuesday after Washington announced all Iran sanction waivers would end by May, pressuring importers, mostly Asian, to stop buying from Tehran.

Surging oil prices, however, took a toll on airline stocks. Air France, EasyJet plc, Lufthansa and Ryanair , all shed between 2 percent and 4 percent.

Getinge was the top performer on the STOXX 600 after the Swedish medical technology company beat first quarter sales estimates and said restructuring measures will boost profit in the second half of the year.

Thomas Cook jumped 14 percent after a Sky News report that the world’s oldest tour operator was tentatively approached by several parties regarding a takeover of its tour operating division or the entire company.

(Reporting by Agamoni Ghosh and Medha Singh, Editing by William Maclean and Ed Osmond)

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Timpf: Impeachment would make the president ‘more popular’

Fox News contributor Katherine Timpf criticized the Democratic Party's consideration of impeachment Monday on "Your World with Neil Cavuto," saying that such an action would only embolden President Trump.

"I think  it would make President Trump more popular. It would make them look petty and I think it would make President Trump look like a victim and a sympathetic figure. And I think that they know that. They must know that," Timpf told Cavuto.

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"I don’t think they're complete morons. I think that they are able to  realize simple facts and history. So I really think they're just trying to drum up support among their base. Which I think is effective in that way. Other Democrats, people further left, do like to hear that."

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for impeachment Monday while appearing on CNN.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., opposes impeachment but is facing opposition from some members within the party.

Timpf noted that Democrats were better off letting the American people know how they could make their lives better.

"So I think what Democrats should be doing is they should be focusing on -- they say we can make it better. These are our ideas rather than say let's impeach the president," Timpf said.

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The "Greg Gutfeld Show" regular also asked why the Democrats were working so hard to remove Trump and give Vice President Mike Pence the nation's highest office.

"I can't believe we're seeing some Democrats fighting so hard for Pence. I had no idea they like Pence so much. That doesn't mean that you get Hillary Clinton if they actually did impeach Trump," Timpf said.

Source: Fox News Politics

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Brother of Iran's president goes on trial for corruption

The trial has begun for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's brother and close confidante, who faces corruption allegations brought by hard-liners who dominate the country's judiciary.

The semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Hossein Fereidoun, who was on the team that negotiated Iran's 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, went on trial Tuesday with four other defendants. They are charged with financial misconduct dating back to 2016.

Earlier this month, hard-line Iranian lawmakers called on the judiciary to expedite the trial. Fereidoun spent the night in prison in 2017 but has since been free on bail.

Rouhani, a relative moderate within Iran's political system, changed his surname decades ago.

Iran has jailed allies of former presidents for similar charges.

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Under pressure, U.S. Justice Department defends handling of Mueller report

Pedestrians walk past the Department of Justice in Washington
Pedestrians walk past the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

April 4, 2019

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facing Democratic pressure to quickly release Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing contacts between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, the Justice Department on Thursday defended its handling of the document and said it could not disclose it before redacting confidential information.

“The Department continues to work with the Special Counsel on appropriate redactions to the report so that it can be released to Congress and the public,” Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said last week that Mueller’s 22-month inquiry did not establish that Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia in the election. Mueller also did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump illegally interfered with the Russia investigation, which has cast a shadow over his presidency.

While Mueller did not exonerate Trump, Barr said he then concluded there was not enough evidence to show that Trump committed an obstruction crime.

Every page of Mueller’s report contains a warning that it might contain confidential material, Kupec said, so Barr must first carefully determine what needs to be redacted. Barr said last week he hopes to release a redacted version of the report by mid-April.

The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday authorized its chairman to subpoena the department to obtain Mueller’s full, unredacted report, moving closer to a legal clash with the Trump administration.

Democrats in Congress have expressed skepticism that Barr’s four-page account of Mueller’s “principal conclusions” accurately reflects the nearly 400-page report’s contents and are pressing him to release it in its entirety. Some members of Mueller’s team also are unhappy with the way Barr characterized their investigation, according to reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post, quoting anonymous sources.

The Post reported that Mueller’s staff prepared summaries for each section of the report free of confidential information that might require redaction, with the goal that Barr could release them to the public.

(Reporting by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Will Dunham and Ross Colvin)

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Smollett Lawyer: Alleged Nigerian Attackers “Could Have Worn Whiteface”

Tina Glandian, an attorney representing Jussie Smollett, suggested during an interview on NBC’s “Today” that the Nigerian brothers accused of assaulting Smollett could have been wearing whiteface.

During a Thursday morning discussion, the “Empire” actor’s attorney was asked if Smollett made a false statement when he ensured police his attackers were white.

Sitting down with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Glandian replied, “He only saw one of the attackers. One of them he didn’t see. He saw one through a ski mask.”

“Again, he could not see their body. Everything was covered, and he had a full ski mask on except the area around the eyes,” she continued.

Elaborating on what Smollett told law enforcement, Glandian said, “He did tell police… from what we saw, he thought it was pale skin or white or pale skin, was I think what he said. And that’s why he initially did have a hard time.”

Guthrie asked how Smollett would have seen white faces under the ski mask if the Nigerian brothers blamed for the attack did indeed commit the crime.

Glandian responded by suggesting the men intended to look white, saying, “Obviously, you can disguise that. You can put makeup on.”

Next, the lawyer took a swipe at the Chicago PD, adding, “There is, interestingly enough, a video. You know, I think police had minimal investigation in this case, it took me only five minutes to Google… and one of the videos that showed up actually was of the brothers in whiteface doing a joker monologue with white makeup on him. So, it’s not implausible.”

The claim by Smollett’s attorney comes after the actor suddenly had 16 felony charges dropped much to the chagrin of the Chicago PD and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

In a Thursday morning tweet, President Trump made it known that Smollett isn’t in the clear yet as the FBI and DOJ are set to look into the case.

Watch the original whiteface video allegedly featuring accused attacker Abel Osundairo below:

Alex Jones coins the term Smolletting: Which is when leftist pose as racist commenters to get their political enemies banned off social media

Smolletting

1. The act of perpetrating hoax hate crimes against yourself to frame your political enemies

2. Brigading racist comments on social media posts to get political enemies de-platformed

3. Creating false twitter posts to frame a person for a hate crime

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Colombia demolishes drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s former home

The Monaco building and former home of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar is seen before being demolished, in Medellin
The Monaco building (R) and former home of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar is seen before being demolished, in Medellin, Colombia February 22, 2019. REUTERS/David Estrada Larraneta

February 22, 2019

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia destroyed an infamous apartment building which was once home to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in a controlled implosion on Friday, after the site became a tourist destination.

The “Monaco” apartments, where Escobar lived in the 1980s, were a symbol of evil, Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez told journalists.

Gutierrez lamented that the 8-story building had become a destination for tourists on much-maligned “narco-tours”, which take visitors around sites related to the history of drug trafficking.

Critics say the tours glorify the drug violence of the 1980s, when thousands of Colombians were murdered.

Escobar was killed in December 1993 in a joint Colombia-U.S. operation.

The city plans to build a park and memorial museum to replace the abandoned building, which took 3 seconds to destroy.

“This means that history will not be written in service to the victimizers, but in recognition of the victims,” President Ivan Duque said at the event, before he flew to the Venezuelan border to attend a charity concert.

The “Monaco” survived a car bomb attack during the 1987 height of fighting between the Medellin and Cali drug cartels, and played host to Escobar’s storied vintage car collection.

It was expropriated by Colombia in 1990 and for a time served as extra office space for the attorney general’s office.

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Helen Murphy and James Dalgleish)

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FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at OPEC’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

April 26, 2019

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and told the cartel to lower oil prices.

“Gasoline prices are coming down. I called up OPEC, I said you’ve got to bring them down. You’ve got to bring them down,” Trump told reporters.

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Sonia Bompastor, director of the Olympique Lyonnais womenÕs Youth Academy, leads a training at the OL Academy near Lyon
Sonia Bompastor, director of the Olympique Lyonnais womenÕs Youth Academy, leads a training at the OL Academy in Meyzieu near Lyon, France, April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot

April 26, 2019

By Julien Pretot

MEYZIEU, France (Reuters) – Olympique Lyonnais president Jean-Michel Aulas was wringing out his women’s team shirts in the locker room on a rainy London day eight years ago when he decided it was time to take gender equality more seriously.

It was halftime in their Champions League semi-final second leg against Arsenal at Meadow Park with 507 fans watching and Aulas realized that his players did not have a another kit for the second half.

“Next time, there will be a second set just like for the men, that’s how it’s going to work from now on,” he said.

Lyon have since won five Champions League titles to become the most successful women’s team in Europe and recently claimed a 13th consecutive domestic crown.

They visit Chelsea on Sunday in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final, with a fourth straight title in their sights.

At the heart of their achievements is a pervasive ethos that promotes gender equality throughout the club, starting in the youth academy.

In 2013, Aulas appointed former Lyon and France player Sonia Bompastor as head of the Women’s Academy — the female equivalent of one of France’s top youth set-ups that has produced players such as Karim Benzema, Alexandre Lacazette and Hatem Ben Arfa.

At the Youth Academy, girls and boys share the same facilities.

“Pitches, physiotherapy rooms are the same for all,” the 38-year-old Bompastor told Reuters.

As the girls train under the watch of former Lyon and France international Camille Abily, the screams of the boys practicing can be heard nearby.

The boys and girls also benefit from the same psychological support that includes hypnosis sessions and yoga.

“We have a ‘mental ability’ cell and the hypnotist acts on the girls’ subconscious, on their deeply held beliefs after observing them on and off the pitch,” Bompastor added.

SAME TREATMENT

One message the Academy staff are trying to convey is that girls are as good as boys.

“Women’s nature is such that we have low self-esteem. So self-esteem is a big topic for our girls,” said Bompastor.

This is not the case with the boys, she added.

“Some 14, 15-year-old boys still think they would beat our professional players, we tell them this would not be happening. We still need to work on those beliefs,” she said.

Female players also have to face questions that their male counterparts do not, Bompastor explained.

“In France there is a problem with the way women are considered, there are high aesthetic expectations. So we get heavy questions on femininity, intimate questions that men don’t get,” she said.

OL’s Academy has been held up as a shining example for others to follow, even in the U.S., where women’s soccer has a wider audience than in Europe.

“About one third of the (senior women’s) squad comes from the Academy, we have a good balance,” said Bompastor.

“I’m getting tons of requests from American universities and foreign clubs, who want to come and visit our facilities.”

‘ONE CLUB’

The salaries of the senior players is one area where there remains a large discrepancy between Lyon’s men’s and women’s teams.

While the three best-paid women players in the world are at Lyon with Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg earning 400,000 euros ($445,520) a year, this figure is dwarfed by the around 4 million euros earned annually by men’s player Memphis Depay.

There is, however, a level of interaction between the men’s and women’s players that is not present at many other clubs.

“When you talk about OL you talk about women and men, you talk about one club and you feel it when you are here or outside in the city,” Germany defender Carolin Simon told Reuters.

“We see it when we play in the big stadium. It’s not ‘normal’ for women’s football,” the 26-year-old, who joined the club last year, added.

Lyon’s female players also enjoy respect from their male counterparts, Simon said.

“It’s very cool, it’s a big honor to feel that it doesn’t matter if you are a professional man or woman. We talk with the men, there are handshakes, it’s a good atmosphere and it’s also why we are successful,” said Simon.

“The men respect us and it’s not just for the cameras.”

Her team mate, England’s Lucy Bronze, sees the men’s respect as key to improving women’s football.

“We might not be paid the same but they are just normal with us, they see us as footballers the same as they are,” Bronze told Reuters.

“Being at Lyon has really opened my eyes. To improve women’s football, it starts with having the respect of your male counterparts. It’s the biggest thing because they can influence so many people.”

(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Toby Davis)

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FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian migrants, stranded in war-torn Yemen, sit on the ground of a detention site pending repatriation to their home country, in Aden, Yemen
FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian migrants, stranded in war-torn Yemen, sit on the ground of a detention site pending repatriation to their home country, in Aden, Yemen April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman/File Photo

April 26, 2019

GENEVA (Reuters) – Yemeni authorities have rounded up about 3,000 irregular migrants, predominantly Ethiopians, in the south of the country, “creating an acute humanitarian situation,” the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.

“IOM is deeply concerned about the conditions in which the migrants are being held and is engaging with the authorities to ensure access to the detained migrants,” the International Organization for Migration said.

The migrants are held in open-air football stadiums and in a military camp, it said in a statement.

The detentions began on Sunday in the city of Aden and the neighboring province of Lahj, which are under the control of the internationally recognized government backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Iran-aligned Houthi rebels control Sanaa, the capital, and other major urban centers.

Both sides are under international diplomatic pressure to implement a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire deal agreed last year in Sweden and to prepare for a wider political dialogue that would end the four-year-old war.

Thousands of migrants arrive in Yemen every year, mostly from the Horn of Africa, driven by drought and unemployment at home and lured by the wages available in the Gulf.

(Writing by Maher Chmaytelli, Editing by William Maclean)

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U.S. dollar notes are seen in this November 7, 2016 picture illustration. Picture taken November 7. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them.

1/DOLLAR JUGGERNAUT

The dollar has zipped to near two-year highs, leaving many scratching their heads. To many, it’s down to signs the U.S. economy is chugging ahead while the rest of the world loses steam. After all, Wall Street is busily scaling new peaks day after day.

Never mind the cause, the effect is stark. The euro has tumbled to 22-month lows against the dollar and investors are preparing for more, buying options to shield against further downside. Emerging-market currencies are also in pain, with Turkish lira and Argentine peso both sharply weaker.

Now U.S. data need to keep surprising on the upside or even just meet expectations. The International Monetary Fund sees U.S. growth at 2.3 percent this year. For Germany, the forecast is 0.8 percent. The U.S. economy’s rude health has given rise to speculation the Fed might resume raising interest rates. Unlikely. But as other countries — Canada, Sweden and Australia are the latest — hint at more policy easing, there seems to be one way the dollar can go. Up.

(GRAPHIC: Dollar outperforms G10 FX – https://tmsnrt.rs/2Dz17S5)

2/FED: UP OR DOWN?

Wall Street is near record highs and recession worries are receding, so as we mentioned above, investors might wonder if the Federal Reserve will start raising rates again.

Such a pivot is unlikely after the Fed killed off rate-rise expectations at its March meeting. And the latest Reuters poll all but puts to bed any risk of rates will go up this economic cycle, given inflation remains below the Fed’s alarm threshold and unemployment is the lowest in generations.

Before the March rate-pause announcement, a preponderance of economists penciled in one or more increases this year. But that has flipped. A majority of those surveyed April 22-24 see no further tightening through December and more are leaning toward a cut by the end of next year.

Indeed, interest rate futures imply Fed Funds will be below the current 2.25-2.50 percent target range by this December.

Recent positive consumer spending and exports data have eased market concerns of a sharp economic slowdown. But inflation probably needs to run hot for a long period to panic policymakers off their wait-and-see course.     

(GRAPHIC: Federal funds and the economy – https://tmsnrt.rs/2DzjTZz)

3/HEISEI TO REIWA

Next week ends three decades of Japan’s Heisei era. Heisei, or Achieving Peace, began in 1989 near the peak of a massive stock market bubble and closes with the country trapped in low growth, no inflation, and negative interest rates.

The new era that dawns on May 1 is called Reiwa, meaning Beautiful Harmony. It begins when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne. But do investors really want harmony? What they want to see is a bit of economic growth and inflation to shake up the status quo.

The Bank of Japan’s stimulus toolkit to revive a long-suffering economy is anything but harmonious and yet it’s set to stay. The central bank confirmed recently rates will stay near zero for a long time. But the coming days may not be harmonious or peaceful for currency markets. A 10-day Golden Week holiday kicks off on April 29 and investors are fretting over the risk of a “flash crash” – a violent currency spasm that can occur in times of thin trading turnover.

The year has already seen two yen spikes and many, including Japan’s housewife-trader brigade – so-called Mrs Watanabes – appear to have bought yen as the holiday approaches. Their short dollar/long yen positions recently reached record highs, stock exchange data showed.

(GRAPHIC: Japan stocks: from Hensei to Reiwa – https://tmsnrt.rs/2W6a7Fe)

4/EARNING TURNING

Quarterly earnings were supposed to be the worst in Europe in almost three years, but with a third of results in, things are looking a little rosier.

Two-thirds of companies’ results have beat expectations, and they point to earnings growth of 4.5 percent year-on-year. Financials have delivered the biggest surprises, according to analysis by Barclays.

That might just show how low expectations were. In fact, analysts are still taking a red pen to their estimates.

The latest I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv shows analysts on average expect first-quarter earnings-per-share for STOXX 600-listed companies to fall 4.2 percent. That would be their worst quarter since 2016 and down sharply from an estimated 3.4 percent just a week earlier.

Those estimates may end up being a little too bearish as earnings season goes on, quelling worries that Europe is heading toward a corporate recession.

GSK and Reckitt Benckiser will give the market a glimpse of the health of the consumer products market and spending on everything from toothpaste, washing powder and paracetamol.

(GRAPHIC: Earnings forecasts – https://tmsnrt.rs/2DuO2ZF)

5/WAITING FOR THE OLD LADY

Sterling has gone into the doldrums amid the Brexit delay and unproductive talks between the UK government and the opposition Labour party on a EU withdrawal deal. The resurgent dollar, meanwhile, has taken 2 percent off the pound in April. It is unlikely the Bank of England will be able to rouse it at its May 2 meeting.

Despite robust retail and jobs data of late, the economic picture is gloomy – 2019 growth is likely to be around 1.2 percent, the weakest since 2009, investment is down and Governor Mark Carney says business uncertainty is “through the roof”.

Indeed, expectations for an interest rate increase have been whittled down; Reuters polls forecast rates will not move until early 2020, a calendar quarter later than was forecast a month ago. The hunt for a new governor to replace Carney in October adds more uncertainty to the mix.

The recent run of UK data has fueled hopes of economic rebound. That’s put net hedge fund positions in the pound into positive territory for the first time in nearly a year. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street might temper some of that optimism.

(GRAPHIC: Sterling positions – https://tmsnrt.rs/2XJwUXX)

(Reporting by Alden Bentley in New York, Vidya Ranganathan in Singapore; Karin Strohecker, Josephine Mason and Saikat Chatterjee in London; compiled by Sujata Rao; edited by Larry King)

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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren suggested that doctors and nurses don’t treat African American women the same way they do white women.

Warren appeared on Wednesday together with a number of other 2020 Democratic candidates at the She The People Forum in Houston, discussing issues concerning women of color.

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The Massachusetts senator announced on stage a plan to decrease the childbirth mortality rate among black women while identifying a systematic problem with how they are treated.

“And there is a specific problem, as you rightly identified, for women of color who are three, four times more likely to die in childbirth,” Warren said.

“And here’s the thing, even after we do the adjustments for income, for education, this is true across the board. This is true for well-educated African American women, for wealthy African American women, and the best studies that I’m seeing put it down to just one thing, prejudice,” she added.

“That doctors and nurses don’t hear African American women’s medical issues the same way that they hear the same things from white women.”

“That doctors and nurses don’t hear African American women’s medical issues the same way that they hear the same things from white women.”

— Elizabeth Warren

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Warren went on to get into details of her plan, noting that hospitals will be given bonuses if they manage to reduce the childbirth mortality rate among black women in an effort to give financial incentives for those doctors and nurses to provide better care.

“And if they don’t, then they’re going to have money taken away from them,” Warren added.

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“I want to see the hospitals see it as their responsibility to address this problem head-on and make it a first priority. The best way to do that is to use the money to make it happen because we gotta have change, and we gotta have change now.”

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