Electronics stocks move higher. A spanish person becomes the first person to contract ebola outside west africa as president obama outlines plans to screen passengers for the ebola disease. Ebola is a very serious disease. And the ability of people who are infected to carry that across boarders is something that we have to take extremely serious. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Rio tento has ejected a takeover bid from glencore back in august. They have created the worlds biggest liners. Rio tinto shares are leading the ftse. Glenn core is trading higher while the news lifted other m e mining stocks. Glencore has not rumd out a fresh approach, this a according to its sources. Chris is with us for the next half an hour and nick, as well. Nick, do you think this announcement, this deal that glencore is looking at rio tinto, do you think that suggests Iron Ore Price ves bottomed . Not necessarily at all. One of the main ration
Profits sending shares to the top of the french markets. And continental raises its out look. A double digit jump in profits. Well be speaking to the group ceo in the next hour. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Now welcome to the show. We just got some breaking data on italian gdp. Its come in as expected for the quarter. For the year of 2014 for the final quarter at 0 for the full year minus. 5 . It was expected at. 3 . So the full year figure just below expectations. A contraction of half a percent. You can see the euro is down three tenths of a percent today but thats come over the last two trading sessions and ahead of the break. Theyre saying they anticipate we should be looking at growth later on this year for italy. There could be slight growth during the first three month of the year instead but italy is one of the interesting ones in terms of potential for surprise. But also so crucial because of the size of the bond market. W
The election. The far right makes gains. Back from the brink of extinction, where in mexico where baby whales are thriving and helping a local community to prosper, as well. Israels Prime Minister netanyahu is prepared to continue peace negotiations with the palestinians but not at any price. Days ago, u. S. Brokered talks were thrown into turmoil because israel foiled an planned release of prisoners. Palestinian was seeking greater recognition at the united nations. We have more. The palestinians threat to join the u. N. Will not affect us. The palestinians have a lot to lose from such a unilateral step. They will achieve a state only through direct negotiations, not through empty announcements and unilateral steps. They will only push a peace accord farther away. Unilateral steps by them will be answered by unilateral steps from us. We are willing to continue negotiations but will in the do so at any price. Lets go live to jerusalem where aljazeera Stephanie Decker is there fours. Th