Lets go to the nasdaq. Thats the heart of this a boolean in markets. Ebulliance in markets. The nasdaq breaking the new record. It took 15 years to get there. Its training around 28 times its earnings. The multiple in 2000 was 190. Its a different beast. The components are going to raise dividends. Some other news, banks are in focus. All in an effort to raise capital. Youre going to get new asset managers. Unicredit will get a quarter of a percent. She will focus more deeply on what she is doing and raise those assets away. Oil pretax profit to zero 5 million. That beat the estimate. Electrolux beat estimates. North america i was surprised. In europe the margins are improving. The Cost Saving Program is working. Astrazeneca also had their set of numbers today. That came in at 1. 0 eight cents per share. They are sticking to their forecast. Those are the kinds of stocks we are keeping an ion. Eye on. The question is where does the dollar go next. We will leave it there. Thats it for me
Up in the u. S. This is the pulse. Live from london. European leaders meeting for a second round of talks in brussels. Russia and greece remain very much top of the agenda. On russia, the group has pledged to extend sanctions until the end of the year. For greece the eu has asked the government to submit a more solid reform plan. Lets bring in our reporters. Caroline connan joins us from brussels. Marcus joins us from athens. Caroline, lets start with you. Caroline on russia, which was on the agenda like greece in brussels, they decided to put off the decision to aging summit. A june summit. The eu sanctions expire in july. They might extend these until the end of the year. Which would match the timeline of the minsk agreement. [no audio] guy we seem to be having technical difficulties from brussels. You are looking at live pictures from brussels as leaders gather in enter the building. We will monitor what they have to say. We will get a sense of where we stand on two issues of russia
Lets start with china, because in the past few hours the worlds second biggest economy has just released its latest Economic Data. The countrys economy grew by 6. 5 in the Fourth Quarter compared to a year ago. That was slightly higher than many analysts had been predicting, with the markets forecasting that figure to be around 6 . And for the whole of 2020, the chinese economy grew by 2. 3 , which is its slowest pace since 1976. However very few countries are expected to show any signs of growth at all, given the damaging effects of covid 19. Were nowjoined by beijing by yue su whos an economist at the Economist Intelligence unit. This intelligence unit. Figure, will it be seen as success , this figure, will it be seen as success, relief, disappointment . Success, relief, disauointment . , disappointment . You ust mentioned i disappointment . You ust mentioned that i disappointment . You ust mentioned that this h disappointment . You just | mentioned that this figure disappointment .
But the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three Thousand Syrians have already registered to return but i can never go back to syria. She is especially worried about this man. Is a member of the Syrian Committee tasked with collecting the names of Billing Return is and sending the list to damascus for approval who is suspicious that the government mitali the names with those who protested against the regime and neither of us them upon arrival or refuse them approval to return but golson denies the charge. Its not a condition not an issue of approval its just about informing the government of the names of the people returning. He claims syria is now safe and to convince us
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