Recording that she never did that at all. That full exclusive story in around half an hour. And major disruption is expected in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, as storm ophelia arrives from the atlantic bringing Hurricane Force winds of up to 80 miles an hour. Well keep you right across developments. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning the latest breaking news and developing stories and, as always, really keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today britain and ireland are bracing themselves for the arrival of storm ophelia. Its the most powerful storm ever to have formed so far east in the atlantic. It has already hit the south west coast of ireland this morning and will make its way across the country, reaching Northern Ireland by 3pm this afternoon. The Irish Government has d
Store. The shortterm later agents chased prince down and got him in cuffs. Reporter we did some digging on the paperwork. Prince has been arrest ed a lot of times. Hes been convicted quite a few times and also gotten off the hook on a few technicalities as well. Whats next . The shooter is still in wilmington. Prosecutors in maryland are going to get him across state lines. At a hearing this morning, the judge set bail at 2. 1 million. Next comes the decision to prosecute him in delaware first or send him to maryland where hes charged with more serious crimes killing three coworkers and critically hurting two others. A criminal defense attorney said since this is a high profile case prosecutors may want to speed up the process and make a decision as soon as next week. Probably they say maryland you have the more serious charges. You take them. Well see whats leftover if we want anything when youre done with them. The Attorney Generals Office has not yet set a time line on that. This af
And im anna edwards in london. Lets start the program with data out of the eurozone, specifically out of italy. We had gdp data hitting the bloomberg. Exactly inline with estimates, 0. 4 , the Second Quarter pulmonary reading. That is what the analysts were looking for. Data on abetter number of fronts from italy. Industrial output expands in the Second Quarter. The jobless rate, still too high of course, but coming down. Better news on exports and bank rescues taking place in italy. Those are some of the headlines in the Second Quarter. In line with that, we see this better growth picture, in line with estimates and the previous quarter. Lets look at where we are on various assets. 1. 1720. Urodollar, heading into this we were at 1. 1755. A little bit of sluggishness on the euro. The stoxx 600, up by 0. 7 . Gold and yen, continuing to s lip. Bullishness in stock markets in europe today. Pound, 0. 91. O we are going to get the u. K. Wage data and eurozone growth figures. We got the s p
Was interesting. Whats your headline here. Why should stocks continue to rise well after 20,000 . Well, really what were noting this week as we head into the final week of the year is the potential for what we call bullish outside year, and basically in simple terms all that means is throughout the year weve traded below last years low, which was 1867 on the s p 500. If we were to close the year about last years high, which is 2135 and we have three days left, but it looks pretty good to do that, that would leave a bullish outside year. Now, its only haepd every happened two other times in history. One was in 1935. One was 1982. Ill sample size it too. Its really not sufficient to draw too many concludes from, but those two years were followed by yearly gains of 28 and 17 respectively. Thats just something were looking at as we head into yearend here. How do you factor in, though, whats happened since election day and how that could skew any sort of technical signals that the market ma
And how to advance americas trade agenda to President Trump and the 115th congress. This is about an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president and ceo of the u. S. Council on competitiveness, the honorable deborah wincesmith. Good morning. Welcome to the 2016 National Competitiveness forum and the u. S. Council on competitivenesss 30th anniversary. Last night, many of you were with us at the Smithsonians National museum of American History and we were so pleased and delighted to celebrate with so many friends and colleagues from around the country and the world. The councils 30th anniversary and to honor two great leaders of american competitiveness for their contributions. The secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz and the long time science adviser, john hold wren. Today we have a full and engaging day of presentations and recommendations and we hope you all will participate in the conversation. Allow me to just share a few thoughts about todays anniversary forum. I