of a whopping $74 million over two years!am. he was one of seven investors who lost big in this scam which involved trading gold on the london commodities market. hong kong confirmed the arrest of 14 people related to deception in a statement which was put out to bloomberg news. they declined to comment on the specifics about this 85—year—old victim. the so—called london gold fraud has been around hong kong for many years now and according to the website, the fraudsters lure their victims into precious metal transactions and then ask the victims to deposit the money into an investment account & documents authorising third parties to trade on their behalf. the victims lose all their capital as an result. and now — what's trending in the business news this morning. on the wall street journal, airlines warn shutdown strains are worsening. some of the biggest u.s airlines warning passengers will soon face worse delays and more cancelled flights if the partial federal government shutdown drags on further. wall street is proposing

bluefin tuna inr a whopping three-million >>> a huge catch. a giant bluefin tuna in japan sold for a whopping $3 million. for a fish. it was a 600-pound fish, a pacific bluefin tuna sold at tokyo's first auction of the year, claiming the title for most expensive fish. that's the guy who bought it, you saw him there, the president of a popular sushi chain bought it. serving it up at his restaurants today. and if you do the math, the costs break down to about 900 bucks per serving tore sushi. >> that must be some good tuna. >> the restaurant didn't charge that much. it says it will only be charging customers three bucks. he just wanted to buy, it own, it whatever. >> i don't understand the math there. >> and he owns a bunch of sushi stores. >> he's like i'm just going to -- >> he can do anything he wants. he's the king of sushi. >> if you have $3 million for a fish, you can do anything you want anyway. >> "saturday night live" is up next. we'll continue the fish discussion right here. >> have a good night. [ nbc theme plays ] >> jeff? jeff? are

reflect that if you want whose income bracket the average income for fisher island members was a whopping two want to half a million dollars in two thousand and fifteen that's one million dollars more than the second place bought held by zip code nine four zero two seven in silicon valley meanwhile new york represents a quarter of the top one percent of households nationwide and california accounts for eighty five percent of the riches of codes in the west but while neighborhoods in the new york tri state area and california make up the majority of the top riches of codes in america the favorable tax structures in florida and wyoming are drawing the wealthy to according to the report since two thousand and ten the average income in most wilson road wyoming has increased more than seventy five percent making it the fourteenth which is the code in the country and then of course the south is home to the richest code in all of america fisher island and now in order to live on this island you do have to pay a membership fee of a quarter million dollars and not including the annual fee that com

and europe is hot for a whopping trade deal with south america but some of the countries are distracted with problems at home. i'm been physical and let's do business twenty eighteen is history but briggs it isn't twenty nineteen will be telling here are the key dates to look out for or avoid this year the first comes up in mid january when m.p.'s vote on prime minister to resign may's controversial breaks a deal that will determine what kind of breaks it it will be come march twenty ninth the date britain leaves the e.u. the american ambassador to the u.k. says a quick and massive trade deal with the u.s. would only be possible in the event of a no deal breaks it that's what would happen if parliament rejects mase deal and no deal breaks it would be a nightmare for european businesses well if parliament accepts mase deal it would mean an orderly breaks it with a transition period starting after march twenty ninth to allow britain and the block to sort out that you trade relations the transition would end on december thirty one twenty twenty and breaks it would then be complete plenty o

twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen the lending rate rose steadily with the figure hitting a high of a whopping twenty six percent it has dropped since then to the most recent rate of around about seventeen percent but compared with other parts of the world like the eurozone for example where interest rates have remained close to zero for years it's still very high the same buyers to guard inflation rage rate which is currently hovering at around nine percent slower than in previous years but still very high compared to other countries let's bring in our correspondent articulates you from a capital. i say again a has had the highest interest rates across africa for years how is that influenced the going to an economy. well it's us influence the economy a great extent because. interest rates really can set me. up praying for example this autonomy and economy that many businesses cannot find what they do and so they need to grow to debunk small loans and the incest streets determined by the. also influences which treats the banks loans to these means necessary while still grates on high the need

minimum wage to quell unrest over inflation and shortages but by december last year inflation hit a whopping one point seven million percent the bloomberg news agency came up with the coffee index the price of a cup of coffee reached two million both of ours in june of twenty eighteen at the time around fifty u.s. cents but duro revalued the national currency the believe are slashing five zeroes that brought the cost of a cup of coffee down to twenty both of ours but by the start of twenty nineteen the price again soared to one point four million of the new ball of ours that's equal to one hundred forty million old ball of ours people run to buy groceries as soon as they get paid before their salary loses its value and that's if they can even find food that is wayland's or tired of shortages and inflation. more than three million of them have left the country in recent years seem mainly to colombia but the anger is growing among those who have stayed. and we're joined now by the news is jennifer camino gonzales she's been following the situation in venezuela closely jennifer you have family

twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen the lending rate rose steadily with the figure hitting a high of a whopping twenty six percent it has dropped since then to the most recent rate of around about seventeen percent but compared with other parts of the world like the eurozone for example where interest rates have remained close to zero for years it's still very high the same class to guard inflation rage rate which is currently hovering at around nine percent slower than in previous years but still very high compared.

investors around the world lost a whopping $13 trillion us, that is bigger than the size of china's economy the loss ca m e size of china's economy. 40% of the loss came from asia, 30% from the us, march came in the final month of the year and wall street had its second worst december in history with the bigger slide since the great depression. international investorjim rogers gave us his view of the year ahead. you think 2018 was bad? wait until 2019. we won't see a bounceback? a bounceback, a rally, trump will say some good things and it will get better, but thenit things and it will get better, but then it will get worse. what should we be worrying about in 2019? higher interest rates, many economies starting to fall into the tank, as you know, it starts well, when we are not looking, gradually it moves over here and then it is on the bbc and then we all know, oh my god, something is wrong. investments are down, there is opportunity, so where is that opportunity? russia, russia is that opportunity? russia, russia is hated right now, china, if i was looking around, i would say china, russ

term next week the lima group says elections in may were not credible a fish has been sold for a whopping three point one million dollars in tokyo's famous new year to no sushi producer and wholesalers have been known to pay huge sums for the biggest and best fish but this is the highest price on record tokyo's fish market reopened in a new location in time for the annual sale those are the headlines right now it's witness. yes she was a masterful artist. i'm there with real legendary guys man they've done a lot for the community and for the culture if. i had the honor roll it with some really good writers so i thought i was a man. as big annoyed some people doll as the level of belief i had of myself. they were known as being like a hotter but that sometimes i was again you know he played well in la but unlike a lot of guys got out i'm going to be in a lot but it was wrong. nobody could cause. i'd say both along the way. godfathers and quiet graffiti. in a nice film was mostly about you naming it and just getting up. after doing so many pieces of your name you start to think well what el

lots of big media and democrat critics making whopping errors and mistakes.sident is like talking about a border wall. they are wrong. the proposal sent to congress ask for much more. it's about border security. that is the point he will likely try to use in 2020. let's bring in our trump 2020 board member and we welcome to the show democrat strategist nathan, good to see you. >> thank you for having me. liz: it's about bordersecurity , medicine? >> is overall about security. not just about a wall. i know that's with the media narrative is. there is so much more in this proposal. starting with 75 additional immigration judges.we left fiscal year 18 we had 786,000 cases in immigration courts. more judges to get to the cases and to get them indisposed appear we need to get security as a democrat they keep talking that we need technology.guess what? $675 million was requested for nonintrusive inspection technology. in the request from the president. the 750 border patrol agents and so much more it's about overall security protecting the american people and fixin

we're talking about a whopping 68% premium. back in july, loxo traded 192.lily looked it over and passed based on how much it would have passed at the time. that was an opportunity for little by because it meant this acquisition was suddenly affordable finally there's bristol-myers purchase of celgene for $74 billion. this gigantic deal is a textbook example of what i'm talking about right now, right here. sure it seems like bristol-myers is paying a big premium, but wait a second, 66 bucks, celgene's stock was selling at an almost impossibly cheap six times earnings this deal only works because the pow pow bear market crushed the group causing celgene's stock to plummet. at these levels the darn thing was too cheap for bristol-myers not to buy it. it was too cheap because biotech had fallen out of favor with the wall street fashion show bristol-myers doesn't care about the fashion show it cares about earnings and new drugs in the pipeline. celgene has both, which is why this deal will be so beneficial to bristol-myers shareholders. we know from the big bank

boasts an incredible instrument within its walls it contains a gigantic organ which is made up of a whopping four thousand seven hundred sixty five parts we wanted to give you a closer look at this instrument how it works and how to play it and who better to do that than a virtual osso like the latvian organist events up there she's been in charge of playing this organ since the opening of the at the nominee in january twenty seventeen and certainly knows all there is to know about it. and hold on a moment i'm looking for something. i think it was it. i that sad and i mean what i wanted to show you is that you can do something very special with this organ or you can decrease the air pressure on and hear the organ bre are adamant. in fact to uptown is fascinated by the breathing organ. unlike most other organs which maintain a stable pressure with this one you can alter it it's also possible to change the organs pitch just two of many ways to manipulate the instruments sound. give us my way every time i'm here i discover something new you think you know everything about it and you've played e

sees inflation at a whopping ten million percent this year meaning more misery for the people. cattle trucks that service public transport. supermarket shelves empty of all basic goods this is what venezuela under president maduro this come to look like. when nicolas maduro took office after chavez died in two thousand and thirteen he inherited his predecessors socialist revolution meant to champion social justice and people power over his away lands. yet before long major oh so to tighten his own grip on power. he cracked down on dissenting voices prominent opposition leaders were arrested or put under house arrest. when the opposition gained control of venezuela's parliament majeure a set of a new constituent assembly that could bypass parliament the move sparked mass protests. many violently crushed by police. in may last year maturer was confirmed in office in elections that were widely seen as a shand many western and latin american countries have refused to recognize the result if you they said that you were obliged to vote. yes they said the people were coerced. it's a l

thousand five hundred goal momentary drop out rates for applicants have also been recorded at a whopping forty seven percent that's almost half of all those applying so it seems likely that even this kind of in your face campaign could mean winning this recruitment war proves mission impossible and as i said r.t. . art over the next few days here at r.t. international we are looking back at some of the stories that we brought to you in twenty eight. there was an awful lot of it. from the point of. reporting the big events. so for. now everything being into a mess if. you. love a supply its. place to me this is our probably see it cost everything you can possibly a budget as they try and take away that will close. the flow of. this instrument near the border with north korea is oh. well really really close. to the most dangerous man in the world from the street. so please let me. go this side of the leader. kim jong il. we're actually see here guys fighting over right now content on the site now we. have gone from it's complicated to inhalation to see what are you going to. the video we c

increase by around three hundred fifty percent a year and on the much hyped internet of things is a whopping six hundred percent. whether the hackers come from in twenty seventeen twenty percent came from china eleven percent from the u.s. and six percent from russia. who are the victims two thirds of companies with fewer than one thousand staff and experts say that in the next two years attacks on medical technology are likely to quadruple. how much economic damage does it cause. it's estimated that from twenty twenty one onwards it will exceed five trillion euros a year and stolen company data accounts for forty three percent of that damage. estonia is a country especially vulnerable to cyber attacks just about every sector of the economy operates online from health to education to financial transactions but a stoner's have to cover it but the most effective weapon against cyber criminals is not fire walls or encryption it's a more offline thing use a training. digital a time a computer is the weapon of choice for how they can steal data and disrupt services . can actually see a fighter je

nine years ago lester pulled a whopping 9 gees. fast forward to today. >> here comes some gee. >> reporter: a flight that literally takes your breath away. here, high above the desert, some hope that more pilots will sign up to fly. gadi schwartz, nbc news, nellis air force base. >> all right, we can all stop clutching the armchair now. that's nbc "nightly news" for this thursday. i'm lester holt. the reason san jose police want to talk to the driver. >>> right now, 6:00, have you seen this van? reason san jose police want to talk to the driver. >> backlog in the courts and computer problem that officers say is letting criminals back on the streets. >>> first pg&e is off the hooks for tubbs fire in north bay. what next for pg&e and its bankruptcy declaration? news at 6:00 starts right now. i'm raj mathai. >> saying pg&e is not the cause of the fire, but private equipment, not pg&e's. >> tubbs was deadliest of the fires in october of 2017, destroyed more than 5,600 structures and killed 22 people. started in calistoga. because of th

. >>> a bombshell announcement from tim cook cost apple a whopping $55 billion. tonight, is the iphone craze over? >>> it is cold tonight but get ready we will see somewhat, windy, wild weather this weekend. good evening. >> we begin with a felony hit- and-run case out of oakland. a 14-year-old boy was riding his bike on 30th when he was hit by a car, the driver did not stop and dragged the victim four box. it happened this afternoon but police have been out there for hours investigating. police found the blue bike on the side of the road. he was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. >> dragged the boy southbound here on 35th avenue. through the bus stop which is an transit pickup and drop-off, continued to drive southbound on 36th avenue and then stanley eastbound back to 34th. >> police say the driver stopped and left the teen in the street fighting for his life. officers found the suspect's vehicle abandoned near the scene. investigators say two people were inside the car. >> now is the time to make the right decision. to make the right choice an

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parliament has overwhelmingly rejected to reserve maizie you divorce deal the prime minister lost by a whopping margin of two hundred thirty votes it is the biggest defeat of a government in modern british history this is the most significant. that any of us will. this is a catastrophic defeat for this government greatest for more than a hundred years humiliating defeat just yet for the government who want. to. share in the playground. the government must surely have see the inevitable coming scotland european union is more popular in the polls from the united kingdom on the prime minister should no doubt it is clear that the house does not support this deal but tonight tells us nothing about what it does support now tabled abduction of no confidence and. while m.p.'s were voting inside hundreds of people from both the pro e.u. and. gathered outside the houses of parliament plunging the area into a company of china. i. think police deployed extra forces to the area but the atmosphere remained calm and peaceful majority of people on both sides wanted maize deal to be voted down no deal breaks or

two thousand five hundred goal momentary drop out rates for uplands have also been recorded at a whopping forty seven percent that's almost of all those applying so it seems likely that even this kind of in your face campaign could mean winning this recruitment war proves mission impossible and as i said r.t. london for the next few days here on international we are looking back at some of the stories we brought you in twenty eight. twenty eight was certainly a big year for news watchers was a lot of it but what was it like in the point of view of those reporting the big events of. so for. now everything being into a mess if. you. have a moment to play its. face to face it from the public exhaust everything you can possibly a budget as they try and place the way that will goes to the floor. this instrument near the border with north korea is a. really really close. to the most dangerous man in the world from the stick to mars. so please see. this side of the leader. kim jong il. we're actually see big us fighting over right now content how many times that we. can have gone from it's compl

accordin standard & poor's, the price tag wasorth a whopping $6 billion.stimated damage from the 35-day shutdown is likely worse than previously expect ptd. ring the three weeks the government is opened, lawmakers will try to hammer out a long-term agreeme on will homela security and border funding. democrats have long been against a border wall but president trump issed ament bboutuilding one. if a deal can't be made by february 15th the president will use his authority to declare an emergency. >> keep it here for "meet the press" with chuck todd. he'll take a look amount the political fallout from the longest shutdown in american history. that again starts at 10:30 right after "news4 today," and we'll chat with chuck in a f minutes. >> an alexandria community is getting a say on what happens to e empty landmark shopping mall. yesterday the company that owns the landmark mall neighbors to come and sit down. the center has been closed for two years now. the owner says they are considering a mix of homes, shops, businesses and possibly a movie theater, but

parliament has overwhelmingly rejected to resume for steele the prime minister lost by a whopping margin of two hundred thirty votes it is the biggest defeat of a government in modern british history. and. this is a catastrophic. greatest one hundred years humiliating defeat for the government work. yet. to. show the party you just wait government must surely have see the inevitable commie scotland european union is more popular in the united kingdom and the prime minister it is clear that the house does not support this deal but. tells us nothing about what it does support now tabled above. and while they were voting inside hundreds of people from both the pro e.u. and pro brooks had gathered outside the house of parliament and plunging the area into a company of china. was shot. i know you are going to think the police deployed extra forces to the area but the atmosphere remained calm and peaceful the majority of people on both sides wanted major deal to be voted down no deal breaks or tears were hoping that would start the bricks and bolts finally rolling while many remain as had thei

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two thousand five hundred goal momentary drop out rates for uplands have also been recorded at a whopping forty seven percent that's almost how off of all those applying so it seems likely that even this kind of in your face campaign could mean winning this recruitment war proves mission impossible and as i said r.t. london. for the next few days we are looking back at some of the stories that we brought to you in twenty eight. twenty eighteen it was certainly a big year for watching the news there was plenty of it but what was it like when the point of view of those actually reporting the big events of all. so for. now everything being into a mess if. you. love a family being deployed it's. nice to bases our from the public to exhaust everything you can possibly a budget as they try and take away that will be good news for the flu. this instrument near the border with north korea is only a. matter of where really really close. to the most dangerous man in the world from mr large. so please keep. this outside of the legal. stuff. we're actually see here guys flying over it's like the cont

the cash option is a whopping 254.6 million bucks. seven other tickets matched five numbers across the country winning $1 million. none of them though here in our area. >>> 3, 2, 1am cl >> well, these people started yoff the newr with a dip into the ocean. the annual exercise like he is ski mow plunge happened at beth they any beach, delaware. temperatures near 60.s not cold as usual. the plunge raises money for scholarships foril local en. >> even though it's 60 degrees outside. you know that water is not warm. it's freezing. good for em. >> good for zblem people in delaware were not the only ones taplng the ge. >> several people along the east park took part in the polar plunge in atlantic city. folks ran into the water. not quitet water was as cold as past years. the ocean temperature averaged around degrees. >> painful. in boston more than 600 people ran into the ocean. they also d not have to deal with icy water. >> looks like some people got -- >> they're into it. full on costumes. >> i'd do it in a wet suit. >> that's cheating

the economied added a whopping 312,000 jobs in december almost twice that eected. busine owners like barbara martin who runs a mechanicing firmay ner desperate to fill positions. >> we are doing a lot of jobpo ings across different website than we have in the past. e are engaged with a couple of recruiters for key positions. we are posting the jobs on social media. and we are just doing a lot of glad handing out in the market and meeting lots of people. >> job gains were strong almost every sector of the economy. manufacturing added workers. restaurants and bars were up 41,000 jobs. and it was record month for the health care industry. it gained 50,000 jobs, the most since the government began tracking that data. wages were also up, average hourly earnings rose 11 cents or 3.2% over last year. call it a job seekers dream. mueller is making the most of his time off. >> it was a nice time to just kind of reset, refresh and kind of start a new job, like ready to, you know, go in there and crush it from day one. >> on monday, he starts his brand-new job. for nightly bu

two thousand five hundred goal momentary drop out rates for up a concert also been recorded at a whopping forty seven percent that's almost how of all those applying so it seems likely that even this kind of in your face campaign could mean winning this recruitment war proves mission impossible and as i said sure cannot r.t. . and you can watch the weekly here and i see international back again with the headlines more stories in half an. seems wrong. but i. just don't. get to shape out the attic. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. up. so i walk into. my own body i have a good body. allen law found in self in the public limelight and he became this province a spokesman for handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. not better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. people get it wrong. they look at alvin loni thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with this. well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my these are

how about united continental up a whopping 7.5%.rt over cost of fill prescriptions wal-mart will leave cannot pharmacy network over this dispute wal-mart down a fraction. cvs up a fraction. meanwhile microsoft said it signed a multiyear deal with walgreens. liz, this is all about what fending off amazon interest in health care, not sure -- : a combination of tech and health care servers which is inevitable combination maybe it is in response to amazon. but this is something that has to happen. the tech industry has got to get involved in bringing down the cost 6 of health care in this conversation request information flow and data storage all of that stuff electronic record keep becoming big part that have this is a natural thing. i hope it's a huge win. we need to bring down the cost of health care. scary all of that money that the techs have got it would be good to see it go into the medical system. pfnlgt do something with it. cries out for innovation and you know, anyway. think of data breaches within tech sector so now you have

banks net profit for twenty eighteen jumped sharply but clients pulled out a whopping thirteen billion dollars in assets during last year's market volatility. ubs chief executive said the results were not up to his ambitions and warned uncertainty in a number of areas could affect this year's performance as well. the european union is find mastercard five hundred and seventy millionn euros. auauthorities say the credit card giant limited uses from seeking cheaper payment fees at other banks. mastercard is eueurope's second largestst card provir after visa had cooperated with the fivive year long investigation and said the finess link to historic not current practices. according japan it rejected carlos ghosn's bail request for second time since his freshman document on financial crimes earlier this month. the ruling came despite the ousted nissan chairman offefering to surrender his passport and wear an electronic ankle tag while he awaits his trial. meanwhile here in front of his days as high no ceo could be numbered. a board meeting is reportedlyly being scheduled for later this week