[ music playing thursday and today we are taking you back with the top songs of 2017. This is decpacito and i did read it. I must apologize for that i know this next Market Information pretty much off by heart, the dow is hire by about 30 points s p up by half napgs up by 7. 6 points yesterday we had very slight gains. Volume wasnt terrible, 65 to 70 of the 50day moving average a. Little high than you might expect on this holidayshortened week for the quarter we look for the month around the quarter looking strong still despite softness in the last couple trading sessions. Lets have a look at the tenyear treasury note, Consumer Confidence slightly disappoint it wasnt the yield cup flattened again or anything like that the yen is going on. Yesterday, we saw the footsie december out performance compared to the other two indices. Its up 4 for the month of december its playing catch up to the main indices in europe, which have double returns, for the year the footsie 100 does not. Ill pric
Indonesias political race. But some say its too early to call. 7 billion in the works for citigroup. Investigator look at paying out for mixed mortgages. Coming up on todays show, croatia plays the game of tourism and looks to cash in on the huge success of the series game of thrones. And brazils football coach luis ferarri describes it as the worst day of his life after the National Team suffers an embarrassing 70 defeat. We bring you all the action from brazil. And the u. S. Retailer the Container Store misses that america is now in the midst of a retail funk. Find out what he has to say about shoppers habits later. Sharp losses for the markets in europe, yesterdays trading saw the index in particular down at a sevenmonth low. Were currently switching between making gains and loogz them. The stoxx 600 down 0. 1 right now. Weve now taken out all the years gains, so relatively in change for that. The german dax relatively unchanged today. A bit of movement going on in the italian marke
country. but we start this hour with breaking news in egypt. you re looking at live pictures of tahrir square in cairo after the new egyptian president morsi gave himself sweeping new powers today. tahrir square also the heart of last year s uprising. demonstrators filled the streets of alexandria later today. morsi s new powers put his own decisions above all legal challenges until a new egyptian parliament is elected. despite the protests, morsi moving ahead with his plans at the same time insisting that his new powers are for the good ofu issued a statement moments ago saying in part, quote, we call for calm and encourage all parties to work together and call for all egyptians to resolve their differences over these important issues peacefully and through democratic dialogue. jim maceda will join us coming up in 20 minutes right here. turning from egypt now to the border between israel and gaza where a two-day cease fire is already being tested. israeli troops shot and k
debating between mitt romney and newt gingrich as her candidate, but she said her primary focus was finding a candidate she thought could beat the incumbent president. she and the others gathered there believed mitt romney is just that person. right now it s very clear that the candidate himself has been trying to position himself above that slugfest fray. they re confident that the benefit and the difference between this go around inç 2011-2012 versus four years ago is the that the conservative vote will be heavily fractured, split this type around between rick santorum, rick perry, as well as michele bachmann compared to about four years ago when mike huckabee, of course, sort of was the long shot who came out of here with a lot of the conservative vote. only about one-sixth of the republicans in the state will turn out to the caucus six days away. that one-sixth is usually the most conservative portion of the republican base and mitt romney plays closer to the independen
there who said she was still debating between mitt romney and newt gingrich as her candidate, but she said her primary focus was finding a candidate she thought could beat the incumbent president. she and the others gathered there believed mitt romney is just that person. right now it s very clear that the candidate himself has been trying to position himself above that slugfest fray. they re confident that the benefit and the difference between this go around inç 2011-2012 versus four years ago is the that the conservative vote will be heavily fractured, split this type around between rick santorum, rick perry, as well as michele bachmann compared to about four years ago when mike huckabee, of course, sort of was the long shot who came out of here with a lot of the conservative vote. only about one-sixth of the republicans in the state will turn out to the caucus six days away. that one-sixth is usually the most conservative portion of the republican base and mitt romney p