Flat screen tvs, some of the items people are bringing to cuba in luggage. Could new restrictions bring this to an end . Also in the program, alice look at whats happening in business. You have unusual friendliness. Absolutely right. Theyre hugging it out. Indias new Prime Minister in japan and abe are not holding back. They want to strengthen their economic ties. It is midday in london, 3 00 p. M. Moscow, 2 00 p. M. In the port city of mariupol where the Ukrainian Government is sending reinforcements to fight the separatist rebels. Battle is complicated by what appears to be russian tanks supporting the rebel fighters. Were hearing the Ukrainian Army has left positions at luhansk airport just northeast of mariupol after they were attacked by a column of tanks. Ukraines president poroshenko says russia has changed the balance in favor of the separatists. The Russian Foreign minister lavrov says there will be no military intervention into eastern ukraine. He says he wants an immediate c
That is what rip the heart out of the overall gdp numbers. About destocking. 19 sessions of gains on the topix. You get to see what happens behind the scenes in terms of having to choose the currency. I cannot find my ruble. That is what i was looking for. This is live tv. 47 point 38 is where we are. The ruble is continuing to fall. 38 is where we are. To talk about 1998. They are going to talk about the last time russia defaulted. Catastrophe that ensued because of the decline of oil prices, those are the words of the leader of russia, not mine. With an comes out contrarian view. They raised the equity market to overweight from underweight. Retail sales will be out next week. The bank of england minutes will be out next week. We like polls. Growth in the Fourth Quarter in to estimatesding will be 4 10 of 1 . In france it will be 3 10 of 1 for the Fourth Quarter. Draghi speaking today. The yen is stronger. The dollar is down. Some individual names i have been keeping an ion. An eye on
It hundred 92,000 subscribers in the first quarter. Price cuts certainly help. Sprint really stays ahead of tmobile as the nations thirdlargest wireless carrier. Sprint has posted two point three 8 billion 2. 38 billion in the first quarter. The sprint name is not as viable as it once was. Disney says the heir apparent co2 bob iger heir apparent ceo to bob iger, tom staggs stepping into his new role. Meanwhile shares are showing strong earnings early in the week. Sony pictures cochair amy pascal, jokes that president obama and his opinions on movie salaries is stepping down from her role in the film business there. Shes not leaving sony altogether. She will start a new Production Company with backing from tony that will retain all this region rights to her films. Hackers in the lead again. And indianapolis based company says it was the victim of a sophisticated attack, with criminals breaking into their database and sweating information of tens of millions of customers and employees. A
Nutella, involving a lot of questions, a lot of house, and mexicos first lady. Theres a story from brazil that has just about everybody asking where is the money. Michelle carusocabrera is all over the stories. Stocks march to record highs, a new world opens up for investors, bob is at the nyse to explain this is a very big deal, right, bob . It is, indeed, tyler. The much anticipated Shanghai Hong Kong Stock Exchange went live for the first time, first time foreigners can own 560 Mainland China stocks directly. Look at the full screen here. In addition to stocks you can own that list in hong kong. Now, the hitch here, this is important, you have to be affiliated with a broker with a license in hong kong to trade the stocks. According to the Stock Exchange website, many u. S. And european Brokerage Firms are participating in the exchange because they have brokerage licenses in hong kong. The firms, take a look here, well known names in the u. S. , interak tich brokers is one, Goldman S
The senate acts . And which companies could benefit big time. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for monday, november 17th. Good evening, everyone. A big day for big deals today. The buzz on wall street was all about two blockbuster mergers, one in the Energy Sector. Well have more on that in a moment. The other in the health care sector. We begin with the bigger of the two deals, generic drugmaker actavis agreeing to pay 66 billion for allergan, the maker of botox. The massive price tag which amounts to 219 per share effectively ends a monthlong hostile bid by Hedge Fund Manager bill ackman along with canadian drugmaker valeant for the same company. Investors approved. Shares of actavis rose while allergan jumped 5 . More now on how actavis sealed the deal. The bidding war for botoxmaker allergan didnt end up quite the way actavis investor bill ackman had been hoping for. More potential partners or combination partners say theyre not interested in allergan puts valea