Role in the white house. Hung jury. Dalia dippolito, walking out of court with a mistrial after being caught on camera allegedly hiring someone to kill her husband. Now her ex is speaking out about that bombshell decision. To be honest im real surprised. The prosecutor vowing to try her again for a third time. She was an american the American Girl and her prince. The first photos of Meghan Markle and prince harry celebrating the holidays. The story behind the pictures. Are we about to have an american princess . And good morning, america. A lot of news to get to this thursday morning. And a lot of the country feeling a lot of cold. More than half the country facing a bitter blast. This is some of the coldest december air in decades. It feels that way. Portland oregon you see that snowy mess on the roads. Cars abandoned in the middle of the night. In cleveland, you know a Little Something about cleveland, george. Snow is falling there right now. That storm system is heading east. Lets t
Now, to a grim reality. That the new president will face right away. His first Foreign Policy challenge is likely to be syria. Tonight, the syrian dictatorship and its russian allies say they have broken the rebellion in the countrys largest city, aleppo. Rebels are evacuating now after years of siege, starvation, and devastating air strikes. Last night, thousand protested at the russian consulate in istanbul turkey demanding an end to the bloodbath. Aleppo once held 2 million residenre residents and treasures of ancient civilization. Nothing like civilization there today. Debora patta reports. Reporter the situation today was described by the United Nations as a complete the u. N. Said it had evidence that pro government militias massacred 82 civilians, some in their homes, others as they tried to run away. 11 women and 13 children were among them. Eyewitnesses describe streets lined with body. People too scared to collect their loved ones for fear of being shot. Activists in eastern
Nejra we do have a look at where european equities are trading right now, just under 30 minutes to the equity close. Up, ian get my Bloomberg Ted to show you gm g. M. N. Seeing the euro stoxx 50 in terms of eurozone stocks, 0. 8 to the highs level in a year. Erased the 2016 drop. You can see gains across a lot of the indices here, spain up. 9 , gains and greece, austria, norway in the fx space, what youre seeing is a little bit of a pause in the postfed dollar rally. Thats translating a little bit of a higher start 12433. Weve seen the euro had higher today as well. Yields, if you look at the core tracking 10 year treasury yields lower. Up some sevenr basis points. A bit of a mixed picture in the fixed income space. In commodities, brent crude up 1. 6 , and if we take a look to see how this is translating into the stoxx 600, europes equity benchmark is up for a second day heading for this highest close in almost a year, set for a second weekly gain as well, up. 4 intraday at the moment
Global news powered by 2600 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Im caroline hyde. This is Bloomberg Technology. President obama vows to retaliate on the election hack and urges donald trump to take the kremlins actions seriously. We will have more on obamas yearend News Conference. And apples 14 million in back taxes forcing changes to International Tax laws. We speak to alex webb. And german Hotel Bookings all debut. Climbing in its will be companys edge be enough to woo u. S. Investors . To our lead. President obama vows the u. S. Will take action against any Foreign Government that metals with the election. In his final News Conference he reiterated russia was responsible for hacking the Democratic Party in the runup to november 8. Intelligenceniform assessments, the russians were responsible for hacking the dnc consequence, it is important for us to review all elements of that and make sure that we are preventing that kind of
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. Kayla has the morning off. Dow up 57 points. Obviously the markets are our top story. Well continue to watch the race to 20,000 in the wake of the feds first rate hike as you know, of 2016. A lot going on. Donald trumps victory since that time five weeks, looking at 8 on the dow, the best postelection rally on record. Jonathan gow want is managing director. Guy, happy friday to you both. Good to see you. Good to see you as well. Tobias, people taking stock of the rally but paying attention to Dollar Strength. The lack of real policy specifics as of now. Obviously memories of how bad last january was. When do we know when this rally is over . We think its a bit overdone near term at the moment. Interstock correlation, top 15 names in the s p 500, is around 10 . Thats one of the lowest levels weve seen in a number of years. Historically when weve gotten this, the market seems to get a bit tired and we start