To keep the lid on growth. European markets get a lift from the latest European Market data showing the private sector has expanded for the First Time Since april and signaling europe could avoid a recession in q4. And japans Business Sentiment sours in the Fourth Quarter. This reading comes two days before a nationwide vote that suggests it will hand the ldp position a landslide win. Were going to give you all the latest results from the flash december data for the pmi for the eurozone that were just getting out. The overall, the deposit is a touch stronger for the month of december. The details show the manufacturing weakened slightly and its services strengthened slightly. They are overall still in negative territory. And were seeing the euro dollar respond a little bit to the downside. Down about 0. 01 trying to fight back into flat on the day. 130. 75 is the level there. Again, the services pmi is at 47. 8. Compared with the 47 that was expected. Its a fivemonth high. The manufact
0 north s every move. you know there are ships, destroyers, just off the coast of korea tracking that, but the tension today, at least, doesn t feel like it s mounting. the u.s. is trying to dial it down. the f-22 super fighters, the bombers, we don t see them now. they have been put on hold. there is even talk again, craig, of diplomacy, cousouth koreans looking to spend a special envoy to reengage with the north, secretary of state john kerry is expected to be looking for newer approaches as well in north korea when he arrives here in the region next week. craig, feels today, like a breather, everybody wants to step back and create room. who knows how long that will last? jim maceda from seoul, south already won this round. why is that? how did they do it? the nra and other groups on their side have been pressuring key republicans and some red state democrats who were interested in some compromise on background checks, never assault weapons ban or limiting high-capacity magazines
apparently has been left to the pakistanis. alisyn: speaking of that helicopter, we now know the tail piece of this super-secret stealth helicopter was left behind. how worrisome is this? it is hard tfor me to tell, don t expertise in the exact specifications of helicopters but i understand they did blow up the fuselage of the helicopter and that seems to have been their primary concern. the tail assembly seems to be pretty interesting, that said. alisyn: do we know why the tail didn t blow up? i don t know. alisyn: the pakistani military is known to have a close relationship with the chinese military and how likely is it the tail, what materials it has, will be handed over to ba jing. we can take it as a given, anything pakistani army can glean from what might have been left behind by the seals would
in a wreath laying at the surviving tree and shortly after that the president will meet with 9/11 families and you ll be speaking to some as well at ground zero. bill: we certainly will. we were down here on monday as you remember alisyn, and today feels different from monday already. it has more a feeling that one that s more somber. one that is more like a memorial today, which is what we ll see when the wreath laying gets underway. the last time the president was here was as candidate, then-senator obama, back in 2008, he was here with then-rival, senator john mccain, they went to ground zero together. we will have more on his visit to new york city in a matter of moments alisyn. alisyn: okay bill the meanwhile, we re learning new details about the helicopter used by navy seals in the bin laden raids, u.s. officials describing never before seen choppers as having, quote, unique capabilities, one helicopter was damaged as you know when it made what s called a hard landing