Clip show tonight (Monday 11/28) on CNBC

[Wallyhorse]

To all:

In case you're not aware, there is a clip show of Martha's version that didn't air on NBC that will air again tonight (Monday, November 2 at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT and 11:00 PM ET/8:00 PM PT on CNBC. I saw it when it originally aired on Thursday night there, and it was a good show.

[maestro]

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[mrjackfrenkobs]

BP engineers said that their latest attempt to stop the oil leak had been unsuccessful, and, after consultation with government officials, they had decided to move on to another strategy.

[mrjackfrenkobs]

JERUSALEM — A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held hundreds of activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday as news reports said activists may be planning a fresh attempt to ferry supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.
At the same time, the Israeli military said troops clashed with two militants who infiltrated from Gaza, killing them both. While such occurrences are almost routine along the volatile border between Israel and Gaza, the incident underscored the tensions seizing the region after Monday’s confrontation at sea, which strained relations between Israel and the United States just as American-sponsored proximity talks involving Palestinians and Israelis were getting under way.
The developments in Israel and Gaza came hours after the United Nations Security Council condemned “acts” leading to the loss of life in Israel’s operation in international waters on Monday that claimed the lives of nine civilians, many of them Turks. In response, Turkey, once seen as Israel’s most important friend in the Muslim world, recalled its ambassador and canceled planned military exercises with Israel as the countries’ already tense relations soured even further. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was flying home after canceling a Tuesday meeting with President Obama.

[jorjperov]

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[Nancy]

Manipulating the currency means one thing prarlmiiy that a country's central bank participates in the foreign exchange market itself, and uses money it has on hand to buy or sell its own currency (or other currencies) in order to affect the market price of its currency to keep it at a target price. Keep in mind that prices are set by supply and demand. This includes the price of a currency; i.e., the exchange rate of it versus other currencies on the worldwide foreign exchange markets.So in the case of China, what people accuse China of doing is keeping the Yuan undervalued (so as to make Chinese exports a bit cheaper than would otherwise be the case). The Chinese central bank would do this by selling its own currency on the forex markets, tipping supply demand towards oversupplying the market with Yuan, making the Yuan cheap. Since the other side of the Yuan/dollar ratio is of course the US dollar, China may also use other currencies to buy the dollar, therefore artificially inflating the dollar. China's effort to manipulate the currency therefore includes them making the US dollar more valuable, creating extra demand for it.Countries like China often do set an official exchange rate. However keep in mind that that mandate means precisely nothing in itself: a government can ONLY enforce its desired exchange rate by buying or selling its own currency on the open markets. When a country cannot do that well enough, it cannot enforce any exchange rate it supposedly mandates. Many a country's official peg has been wrecked by the market.