For greater trade links and investment. The imf has increased its growth predictions for this year and next to 3. 9 . It says that reflects growing momentum and President Trumps recent us tax reforms. The imf says the good news has been well spread out with 120 countries, representing 75 of the world economy, seeing stronger growth in 2017. Business leaders have noticed it too. 57 of the worlds leading chief executives believe growth will improve over the next year according to a survey by the consultants pwc. And thats been reflected on stock markets around the world, which have repeatedly set record highs since last years davos gathering. Lets get more on this story from sally, whos in place in davos. Thanks a lot, samantha. We have plenty of snow here, thats for sure, it is still falling, the forecast is it may stop today, i imagine the organisers are hoping it will because its been quite a Logistical Mission to try to clear the literal metres of snow piling up all over this resort.
To have a weak dollar. Well talk about all of this coming up. Big interview in davos historically just something that is usually not said by administrations or treasury secretaries. In reality, in the shortterm, currencies will fluctuate. Thats kind of what mnuchin was saying bob rubin thought all of these things, they would just never say the it publicly. This might not be the first time that this administration voiced things that other administrations didnt voice mike allen is with us, too. Its not something where you want to add thoughts to it i dont want to revisit the last administration, but we her defense of israel and we saw the way the administration actually stuck to their card, too. Exactly so they say what would you rather have, someone that smiles at you and says we love israel, then behind their back, netanyahu is ready to pull his hair out he doesnt have hair i had the opportunity to sit down with President Trump. We talked about trade, the dollar and his message to this
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im Courtney Reagan in for sara eisen glad to be with you on this happy friday lets get to that breaking news north koreas foreign minister threatening to detonate a Hydrogen Bomb over the Pacific Ocean, this hours after the u. S. Imposed the toughest sanctions yet on north korea irans president said his country will strengthen missile capabilities without seeking permission from the community. The country has already unveiled a new Ballistic Missile capable of carrying several warheads a live report from iran coming up lets start with this new threat from north korea chery kang joins us with the latest good morning good morning so lets put that comment coming out of north koreas foreign minister who is in new york attending the u. N. General assembly into context here because he was first asked by reporters about what its leader, kim jongun meant by the hi highest level of hard line measure in his statement in reaction to the trump speech at the u. N
Its missile capability without seeking permission from the International Community. One report says the country unveiled a new Ballistic Missile capable of carrying several warheads a live report coming up in a moment. Joining us now lets do it right now, joining us on the squa squawk news line from tehran is ali arouzi. Good morning reporter good morning. President rouhani after returning from the u. N. General assembly attended a massive military parade in tehran where he said iran will strengthen its missile capabilities they wont seek permission from any country to do so that is a reference to u. S. Demands that iran curb its Missile Program and to reinforce the statement the revolutionary guard during that military parade unveiled a new Ballistic Missile, which they say has a range of 1,200 miles its capable of carrying multiple warheads. As you guys are well aware, President Trump has accused iran of playing a destabilizing role in the region. But rouhani in his speech this morni
In russia, though, the benchmark micex index fell by more than 3 at the open. Right now, its down by just over 2. 3 . The u. S. Futures at this point are hanging in there. Theyre showing a slight rebound after yesterdays selloff in wall street. You saw that decline when the dow was down by 230 points. Also saw the s p and the nasdaq down significantly. We will have a deeper market discussion with our panel in just a few minutes, plus a live report from kiev. Secretary of state john kerry gets ready to meet with his russian counterpart in london. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Michelle Caruso sa brar ra caught up with ukraines Prime Minister who was here. There was a question that he wouldnt answer. In fact, he walked away from the camera. Thats coming up at 6 30. About bitcoin . No, not just bitcoin. It wasnt whether he was the that was the guy that we pegged as the person that looked like no, that was not the question. Because andrew said the guy didnt look like the actual guy.