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World Service,22 Aug 2018,26 mins

S&P 500 Set For Record Winning Streak

World Business Report

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Shares on the S&P 500 are set to mark their longest ever positive run in history. Market commentator Sam Stovall tells us what he thinks is behind the boom in US shares over the past decade. Also in the programme, with President Trump under pressure following guilty verdicts and pleas in the cases of former aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, our economic commentator Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute tells us whether the president might also be in jeopardy. We visit a tyre manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio, to find out how business is being affected by the latest round of tariffs between the US and China. Plus we find out about a new European Space Agency satellite which will measure wind speeds across the planet, from Justin Byrne, head of science programmes at Airbus Defence and Space, which built the device. (Picture: A market trader. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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