Results. Home builders and Energy Companies lead the ftse higher. Sygenta jumps as it rejects an offer from its u. S. Rival. Welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. What an extraordinary set of results weve had coming in over the last 11 or 12 hours. The first exit polls sending a surprise across the u. K. With the conservatives doing much better than expected and steve, as we approach the final results coming through it is plausible now that Prime Minister David Cameron will hold an absolute majority in the house of parliament behind us. Were seeing figures confounding expectations. We cant underestimate what a seismic moment that was in the entire election. Up until 9 59 p. M. Last night every single poll that had come out had put them within a tight range of each other. The most recent polls were saying the toris may get 280 seats and labor would get 270. That was not the case. And the conservative feelings throughout this and people like lord bell talking to you and i on wednesday thou
Iraqi Ministry Forces appear to be even closer to recapturing a key city from Islamic State militants. Environment Ministry Officials in japan have started the longawaited and contentious project four years after the Nuclear Disaster in fukushima. They are overseeing the transfer of radioactive soil and debris to an intermediate storage site. The waste has been piling up as decontamination work continues. Officials spent considerable amount of time trying to find a suitable location because they had to negotiate with residents. The storage complex is located in an area between two towns near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant. Construction only began last month. So the transfer has started before its completed. In the first year the Environment Ministry plans to transport 43,000 cubic meters of contaminated materials from across the prefecture. So far, the government has only secured enough land to accommodate less than half of that. Once completed, the 16 square kilometer complex wil
Pronouncement that the gcc countries would be more aligned associated with juror done and morocco, fellow monarchyiesmonarchies. So this is not completely new in reaching out to those two countries, but reaching out to sudan is in part, because sudan is a neighbor of egypt and has its own armed forces. But in an effort to broaden the diversity of the coalition. Mr. Sharp. I would say that its certainly not new, as john points out. But we are at a moment. One of the interesting strategic things to think about in terms of this conflict in yemen and really whats been going on since the socalled arab spring began in 2011 is this concept of regional integration albeit military or economic something thats been talked about for decades. Right . If you look at just from the economic side, saudi arabia, kuwait, the uae are financially supporting countries that fiscally cant do it themselves anymore, whether its egypt jordan, be certainly yemen needs the assistance. All of these countries. Now t
In virgin atlantic. Delta is amongst the frontrunners. Comes around quickly. December, were already here. Not long before christmas and we have the november final pmis out of the eurozone confirmed at 46. 2. That was the flash, 45. 4 was october. So slightly higher. The highest since march. But 46 still deep in contraction territory. Output numbers, 46. 1. So thats going in the right direction. And the final manufacturing pmi export orders 46. 4. Again, a tick higher than the 45. 9 flash, the highest since march. So the contraction activity easing to an eight month low if you can explain away like that. Eurodollar 1. 3026. We did gets a high as 1. 3048 which would have been a six week high for eurodollar. Joining us for more is alan capp, head of credit straebtegyt lloyds. Alan, lets get your reaction. The number is going in the right direction. Does it make much of a difference . Right now the equity markets have had a great run. Theyre looking a bit overstretched. So im strul link to
Strikes on gaza and rocket attacks into israel continue. Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. All right, were into hump day, the day before thanksgiving, of course, as well. On todays show, well have updates from athens and brussels as the eurozone ministers fail to ruse a deal for greece. Air strikes and rocket fire continue in the gaza strip in tel aviv, as Hillary Clinton urges both sides to diffuse violence. Well have the latest live from zree israeli. Well also take the pulse of the polish country. Analysts from warsaw 40 minutes from now. Well be in providence, rhode island, to preview travel ahead of the thanksgiving holiday with the head of operations at Peter Pan Bus Lines. But first, after nearly 12 hours of talks, eurozone finance ministers have failed in their quest to agree conditions that would have allowed the next chance of bailout cash going to greece. Whats next . Whats gone wrong . Well be joined by jules in athens in a