We are 30 minutes away from the end of mondays session. Little changed on the equities front. , third day,rlier best run since early october. Sterling down one quarter of 1 . Is your function. Realizederlings swings against the dollar the last 12 months have outpaced all developed market peers. It is the eighth most volatile against major emerging and advanced economies. This is ranking alongside Exchange Rates from Eastern Europe and latin america. The only other developed currency in the top 10 is the new zealand dollar, rocked by concern of an economic slowdown after the labor party formed a Government Back in october. This is turkeys economy. Faster than expected growth in the Third Quarter driven by an increase in household spending, gdp expanding 11 , beating estimates, and turkey increasing spending on everything from wages to investments to spur the economy after a failed military coup hurt the economy last year. That is turkey. This is the ramp, sticking with the emerging mark
Control these assets. We will dig into the implications for netflix because they potentially stand to lose possibly the most if fox and disney pull together and emphasize hulu, their direct competitor to netflix. Alix Lisa Abramowicz is joining me, by the way. Fox. Y will be buying the deal looks to be about 52. 4 billion. Disney will assume 13. 7 a foxs debt. This also means that disney will by foxs 39 ownership of sky and bob iger will remain ceo through 2021. A look at whats happening to the stoxx premarket. Disney up 4 10 of 1 . The news was widely expected. Take a look at fox to see what shares are doing. By about a few percentage points. Fromt to get more reaction gita. What is your initial reaction to the deal . This has been in the works for about a month or so. All of these rumors and news reports. Disney instrumental for for its streaming strategy. Gives them a lot of heft in the marketplace. A lot of ammunition in terms of a deep library of content. Increases negotiating lev
The dollar, and President Trump. The ecb. Lisa the ecb is facing an economy that is recovering and not just recovering, but is definitely gaining steam in the eurozone. The question is, will they announced some kind of ending of their Bond Purchase Program and will they try to talk down that euro . The euro has been strengthening against the dollar. David it is not just the economy gathering steam, it is the euro. Lisa the fear is that it will eat into the corporate profits. David it also suppressed inflation that mario draghi said he wanted so badly. Steve mnuchin says he has been perfectly consistent, there is no problem with the u. S. Dollar even though it has taken a hit. You can see what the dollar has been doing over the last few days, not good. Lisa and took a leg lower after Steven Mnuchin broke ranks with previous treasury secretaries who always commented about not wanting a weakened dollar. He broke with that protocol and saying it would be positive for the dollar to weaken f
Commissioner hogan, distinguished leaders of the political groups, members of the European Parliaments, dear friends, i want to say its a great privilege to be the first wither in your debates heads of government on the future of the European Union. Mr. President , i believe the European Union is that a Decisive Point in our history. Despite all the of peoples in recent years, the rise of populism and skepticism, nationalism, antidemocratic forces, we meet today in solidarity and with a renewed sense of purpose. The european ideal has always been inspired by the spirit of optimism and the belief in a Better Future. While that ideal has been tested, it has not been broken. Base of the achievements of the appetiteavent renewed to face the challenges of the future. 1947, representatives from 16 countries met in paris to discuss how they could resist economic decline and preserve political freedom. [speaking french] in 1947, we heard the importance of resisting economic decline and preserv
A number of russian ice hockey players bobsledders and figure skaters who did not even participate in the sochi two thousand and fourteen Olympic Games are also missing from the list some sport unions and federations have already demanded that the i. O. C. Clarify its decision the i. O. C. Head has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean generation. The i. O. C. Wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the Olympic Games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport the president of the French Federation of ice sports gave us his view on that the exclusion of queen russia athletes because. Sport should not be used as a tool for politicians games should be a celebration for the sporting world and for the athletes whove worked so hard for this event and done nothing wrong sport should unite people should be sanctioned if the allegations are proven as anyone shoul