Less bright than they might appear in the German Economy thats according to a survey of chief Financial Officers conducted by Management Consultancy to lloyds it found a shop drop in both investments and recruitment which levels the lowest in 7 years the Auto Industry engineering and chemical sectors of the most pessimistic especially in investments the Banking Sector trails in recruit but the survey showed c f os were most concerned about a full kastrup in domestic consumption in the coming year just digitisation came out as the one area they are still happy to invest in. Lets go to Chelsea Delaney of financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea just how bad is the situation because i mean germanys just narrowly missed a recession it is basically stagnating wouldnt investments from both the public and private sectors be exactly what the doctor ordered. Well thats what economist investors have really been begging for over the past couple of months investment is really the really the be
First speech to call for strength, resolve, and courage in europe, but steers clear of any serious policy prescriptions. Good morning. Lets take a quick look at the data this morning, getting set up for tuesdays trade. We have a yen that has weekend toalmost 109 weakened almost 109. Optimism for a trade deal driving the yen up to almost 109. Right now, 108. 77, driving up the 10 year yield, looking at 1. 80 right now on the 10 year yield as investors feel comfortable enough to let go of the perceived safety of u. S. Government debt. You see s p futures gaining once again after we saw new record highs for the Dow Jones Industrial average, the s p 500, and the nasdaq in yesterdays u. S. Trade. It is definitely looking like a lot of risk on sentiment in these markets as we get more and more optimism on trade. Still, equities may have even higher to go. Here with the details is dani burger. We might seeson equities move higher is theres one key group that has not latched onto this rally, a
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At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for
A wedding celebration by mistake well our correspondent rob mcbride has more now from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military operation saying a number of foreign taliban fighters as it describes them were killed in this attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do kno