Obesity. But many are trying out innovative ways to take off the extra weight. Israeli and hamas leaders are both claiming victory in the aftermath of the latest war in gaza. They signed an open ended ceasefire during a mediated talks in egypt, and theyre preparing for difficult negotiations ahead. For now, people on both sides of the border are trying to move forward. More from nhk worlds craig dale. Reporter the people of gaza are picking through the remains of their homes and businesses. Cleaning up and getting ready to rebuild. Nobody likes war, says this shop owner. They should find a real solution. Across the border in israel, most are thankful a ceasefire is in place. But theyre guarded. Im a little skeptical as to whether it is really going to hold and if hamas will follow through. Reporter israel and hamas went to war for seven weeks. Palestinian militants fired off rocket after rocket. Israeli forces responded with air strikes and a ground invasion. More than 2100 palestinian
Antiterror measures as new video highlights the brutality of last weeks attack on a satirical newspaper. And a power struggle has broken out at a zoo in western japan, whose outcome will determine the future leadership of a troop of monkeys. Hong kongs chief executive is Standing Firm on political reform. He says the city must follow the chinese governments policy on elections. Leaders in beijing have allowed a free vote in 2017 but they insist on screening candidates. He delivered his first annual policy address since last years prodemocracy protest. He told the Legislative Council that the citys leader must be appointed by the chinese government, regardless of how he or she is elected. Translator hong kongs autonomy under one country, two systems, is a high degree of autonomy but not an absolute autonomy. Protesters held massive sitins on major roads for more than two months. They called for free candidacy in the chief executive election. Leung took a hard line against the demonstrat
1 00 p. M. , the bond market i believe at 2 00 p. M. We are poised at what would seem a higher open. Were not going to get a lot of hours of trading in. As in for the 10year note yield, lets take a look and see where we are. There it is. 27. 66. And well go to the map in europe where i can never figure out the geography. You know the boot is italy. I know the boot is italy and i can pick up russia. Our road map here back in the United States starts with what else, retail. Millions of shoppers, yes, millions hitting the stores for black friday. Well go live to say how sales are going. Brian . The markets are open today for an abbreviated trading session and we are poised to open at record highs again, which will be about the 40th time this year. I guess you guys could say that here on squawk on the street. The nasdaq finishing wednesdays session at a 13year high, kayla. And thin trading today on a shortened trading day. And also bitcoin keeps on surging, topping 1,200 earlier today, doe
Are arriving in athens showing cautious optimism about the health of the economy. These things are looking better. I shared optimism of the greek government, which is that they would like to access the program. Whether its possible, i think its too early to say. As you know, the program runs right up until the end of this year and will decide later on this year what the future will be. And a grilling on capitol hill, questions on how Safety Standards were allowed to slip as gm recalled another 1. 5 million cars. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And a warm welcome to todays program. We start off with the latest pmi data out of the eurozone. We had the flash numbers a while ago. The manufacturing pmi down to 53. Thats what the flash was. It was 53. 2 in february. The pmi output index is up to 55. 6. Thats a little higher than the 55. 4 flash number at 65. 3 in february. And the pmi output prices index, 49. 3 as specd in the fl
Today kicks off a Fresh Trading year. In a quick rundown of best the stocks to own in 2012, bank of america was the top gainer in the dow, up more than 100 . Ironically, it was the biggest loser in 2011. Pulte group, a homebuilder stock, surged 195 . Apple also makes the cut despite struggling at the end of the year. The stock was up roughly 27 . Traders are already setting up for the jobs numbers due out this friday. Its expected 135,000 jobs were added and the Unemployment Rate will remain unchanged at 7. 7 . There is the sound of the opening bell on our show for a new trading year. Gary kozlowski of united futures trading joins us, and happy new year to you gary. Happy new year to you. What do you anticipate the january effect will look like this year . We had so many people sitting on the sideline at the end of december this past year. What we are looking at, everybody is antsing, they want to get themselves into this market as soon as possible. They want to see what they can get i