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FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 file photo shows a sign outside the Stock Exchange in the City of London. The Hong Kong stock exchange said Wednesday Sept. 11, 2019, it has started talks to buy the London Stock Exchange that would value the British company at 29.6 billion pounds ($36.6 billion). The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. said a deal would provide the London Stock Exchange with a key opening to Asian markets and underpin the British capital’s role as a financial hub. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Hong Kong stock exchange swoops in for London rival

By CARLO PIOVANO - Associated Press

In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways says in a statement Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of a pilots' 48-hour strike over pay. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

British Airways grounds nearly all flights as pilots strike

By Gregory Katz - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2018, file photo, former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Washington. The Justice Department’s inspector general says former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Steele dossier played role in launching Trump probe

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during his final press conference at the G7 summit in Biarritz, southwestern France. Both British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Italian right-wing leader Matteo Salvini found themselves in political corners this week, each in his own way having lost bets that their popularity would carry the day. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Johnson and Salvini: 2 soaring stars lose big political bets

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - In this picture taken Tuesday, Sept 3, 2019, a hand with the middle finger raised is painted over an EU flag, at right, on the trawler's front bulk-head of a fisherman boat in the port of Eyemouth, south coast of Edinburgh, Scotland. In their drive to uncouple Britain from the European Union, pro-Brexit campaigners have turned fishing into one of their battlegrounds. But while some seafood industry workers want out of the EU, others are alarmed at the prospect of losing frictionless access to EU consumers. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Promises of Brexit bonanza look fishy for seafood industry

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

In this picture taken Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, passengers arrive at Edinburgh Airport, in Edinburgh, Scotland. In Scotland, there's vocal disgruntlement with Brexit and political machinations that are pushing Britain ever-closer to an abrupt and messy departure from the European Union. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Brexit breathes life back into Scottish independence push

By John Leicester - Associated Press

A man looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index and New York Dow Jones index at a securities firm in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Asian stock markets rose Wednesday following surprise weakness in U.S. manufacturing and wrangling in Britain over the country’s departure from the European Union. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Global stocks rise on hope for Hong Kong calm

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A woman looks at an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Asian stock markets are mixed after Washington and Beijing stepped up their trade war with a new round of tariff hikes. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Stocks fall on trade war jitters, pound slides on Brexit

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, June 3, 2019 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump inspects an honor guard during a welcome ceremony in the garden of Buckingham Palace in London, for Trump and first lady Melania Trump, on the first day of a three day state visit to Britain. On Friday, June 7, 2019, The Associated Press has found that a video circulating on the internet showing a British army band playing Darth Vader’s theme song during Trump’s visit to Buckingham Palace, was manipulated. Footage from the BBC’s broadcast shows the military band played the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force songs during the inspection of troops. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

Donald Trump tells Sadiq Khan to ‘stay out of our business’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this July 13, 2019, photo, tourists pass the Wheatsheaf pub in London, a spot where novelist George Orwell often visited. The London Literary Pub Crawl allows visitors to experience a playful and IPA-fueled tour unlocks stories linked to London locations where renowned novelists and poets drank and debated literature. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

A woman looks at an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Asian stock markets are mixed after Washington and Beijing stepped up their trade war with a new round of tariff hikes. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Global stocks mixed after US and China increase tariffs

By JOE McDONALD and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

In this July 27, 2019, file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts during a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England. Johnson is gambling his future on the audacious proposition that he can blunt an effort to halt his Brexit plan by simply suspending Parliament for key weeks ahead of the Oct. 31 departure date. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, File)

Setback in first legal challenge to U.K. government’s Brexit plans

By Gregory Katz and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A man walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Asian stocks declined Thursday following Wall Street's rebound amid uncertainty about U.S.-Chinese trade tension. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Stocks turn higher on hopes for trade talks

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A currency trader walks by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Asian stock markets were mixed on Friday after Wall Street declined ahead of a closely watched speech by the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global stocks higher ahead of US Fed chairman’s speech

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A currency trader walks near screens showing the foreign exchange rates at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Asian stock markets are mixed Thursday following Wall Street’s rebound as investors looked ahead to a speech by the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman for clues about possible interest rate cuts. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global stocks subdued as investors seek more clues on Fed

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

People stand by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Asia stock markets followed Wall Street lower Wednesday as investors looked ahead to a speech by the Federal Reserve chairman for signs of possible plans for more U.S. interest rate cuts. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Global stocks mostly rise ahead of US Fed release

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Hawaii designer set to make debut at London fashion event

Associated Press

A view of the Grace 1 supertanker stands off the coast of the British territory of Gibraltar, Friday Aug. 16, 2019. The lawyer representing the captain of the Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff said Friday that the captain no longer wants to be in command of the ship, which is in need of repairs that could prevent its immediate departure from Gibraltar. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Iranian tanker to leave Gibraltar soon despite US pressure

By ARITZ PARRA and HERNAN MUÑOZ - Associated Press

This undated image made from a video provided by the IRGC/IRIB shows a ship in the Persian Gulf. Iranian forces seized the ship, which it suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, state media reported Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, marking the Revolutionary Guard's third seizure of a vessel in recent weeks and the latest show of strength by the paramilitary force amid a spike in regional tensions. (IRGC/IRIB via AP)

U.S. move halts release of Iranian tanker held in Gibraltar

By Aritz Parra and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press