The u. S. Has not backed off its position that cuba must include human rights. President obama we are committed to human rights around the world. Engagement is a more powerful force than isolation. This will be good for the United States and the entire hemisphere. John kerry met with the foreign minister. It was the highest between those whotwo countries and half a century. An announcement will come on sunday. Hillary clinton signed a lease in brooklyn. That started a 15 day window. A tornado slammed into a small town overnight. More than a dozen buildings were destroyed. Fair dale does not have. Brendan the settlement with u. S. And british regulators may be finalize this month. General electric about to sell off a real estate portfolio worth 30 billion. A deal would continue the goal of shrinking ge capital. In golf, Jordan Spieth takes a lead. He shot eight under par. He birdied eight of his first 14 holes. The name that is still important tiger woods 40 fourth place. He shot a 73 i
News that the bank will resume Dividend Payments this year. And the partys on in the emerald city today as the Seattle Seahawks win their first super bowl title in dominating fashion over the Denver Broncos. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Well have more coming up on the stunning victory for the Seattle Seahawks over the weekend. It was a bit of a shutout, really. First, the your roe zone factories based on 2014, the strongest growth since mid2000 with a bounceback in spain as well. The pmi is stronger at 52. 7 for december. The output index up 56. 7, higher than the flash number and the employment number was 57. 7 in the flash. France is still struggling a little bit, but the region as a whole exceeding the earlier flash estimates. The report is from the manufacturing in the spanish number also ticking higher into expansion territory. With more on that, first well go to turkeys finance minister. We have michelle cabrera. I am not the
Bouncing back from profit warnings saying it will cut spending and step up asset sales this year. Spains economic continues to pick up the pace. Good news in germany where the jobless numbers fall faster than expected. And hanging up on hand sets, google gets out of the business of making smartphones, selling its money, using the motorola unit to lenovo for nearly 3 billion. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. A very good morning to you. We concluded the feds last meeting. Ben bernanke as expected was a 10 billion taper once again. And not a huge amount of deception from the fomc. Equities following asia and the u. S. Lower, the dow down 189 points. Down to lows we havent seen since november 7th. The s p down to december 9th lows. Its a huge number of individual stocks to look at. How does that translate into the indices . The ftse 100 was down some 28 points. Its down another 28 points today. Xetra dax off 0. 4 . The cac 40 of
Theres strong ad revenue. And byebye bernanke, the fed chairman checks in for his last fed work as his tenure comes to an end. Janet yellen will be sworn in on monday. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. We saw plenty coming up on todays show. Consumer goods lexolux misses demand in the Fourth Quarter. Were going to be speaking to the ceo first on cnbc in about an hours time. Meantime, amazon disappoint onned with earnings. We asked the online retailer if it can turn around. Meantime, more evidence of japan moving away from deflation. Were speak abenomics in around 30 minutes. And sports fans are gearing up to super bowl sunday this weekend. And the game is being held this weekend in an open air stadium in a very cold weather centre. We hear from one Football Player and see how he thinks players and fans will cope. This is how markets are shaping up. Theres been quite a bit of selling on the market today. The cac has been tryin
A car chase ended with shots fired on capitol hill. The incident started near the white house, Police Stopped a black car driving erratically. The vehicle apparently attempted to pass a barricade. The vehicle was attempted to be stopped by secret service. Words exchanged there was a chase outside of the gates of the under the circumstance circumstances u. S. Kol capitol. We have multiple scenes. It appears to be one incident but multiple scenes. There was a swarm of police and emergency vehicles. The police put the city on high alert, prompting lock down of kregs yil buildings and the supreme court. We have no information that this is related to terrorism. Or anything other than an isolated incident. A child reported to have been in the car is not believed to have been harmed. Police updated us on information about that child saying she was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. Its important to note a Police Officer was injured during this whole incident were told he crashe