Equity markets are up a little bit higher. Brents, week eight of decline on the brent market. The longest losing streak since 1988. Do anything . Volumes accrued 47 against the hundred day average. Not only do you see prices decline you are seeing an aggressive shift in terms of volume. If that is not enough to finish he says he quite likes itvron in terms of the oil there will be more deals done as a result of these moves. Copper is down the third day in a row. Commodities are going to set the tone and the agenda for the potential deals that will be done in 2014 i am a year behind myself, 2015. Charoline keeping the numbers stable, 2014 deliveries 2. 6 ,ed to be better, up ,he Telecom Conglomerate thirdquarter sales beat. Hey raised the 2014 target cac up 4 10 of 1 . France winning this morning. That is the market open on gdp day here in europe. Recession with growth at 0. 1 . Nice to have you with us. I was thinking about it this slow walks less of a to the edge of the cliff and more
Straight after their investment release. Reports that the nsa and british spies stole its da a at that. Gemalto says it is investigating but cannot verify the claims. Be and welcome to the show. Were gettinging pmi da a at that. The composite number has come in at 53. 5. Its higher than the january number which was 52. 6 and slightly higher than estimates. Weve got the Services Number which has come in at 53. 9. Thats higher than last month which was 52. 7. The manufacturing number which will have also just come out, let me find that for you, at 51. 1 sleetly belowslightly he below. It follows the jerman and french numbers. Both of those echoing similar sentiment. Manufacturing slightly weak but nothing too significant as you can see the euro dollar has weakened. It has. One of the bright spots was german data. Stronger than expected growth in the Service Providing sector expanding faster in the month of february. But despite that data investors seem to be focused on the headline numbe
Can takeoff amid concerns over safety. Million of people are witnessing the solar he clipgseclipse of the decade. Live pictures throughout the show. Welcome everyone. Hope youre having a great start to your day. Its friday. As we look back at the week it was the fed and janet yellen that became the big focus for the market but we still seem to be a little bit confused about whether that rate hike will come in june or october. Not only are we confused about when the rate hike will come but the size of the market moves weve seen off the back of confusion has been extraordinary. Wednesday afternoon huge moves for risk assets upwards and thursday big corrections in that direction. Thats a trend Going Forward as we potentially see rates normalize. The question is if we do continue to see this type of volatility how do you make money in this game . Do you stick to the sidelines and wait for the volatility to subside or do you try to stay active in this market . With the correction we saw on
World cup sponsors put pressure on fifa to make radical reforms on accusations of corruption. Referendum psychology, David Cameron asked britain to vote yes if it wants to stay in the european union. The Prime Minister heads to the eu to set out changes he is looking for in the uks relationship. Caroline good morning and welcome to countdown. Im Caroline Hyde. We bring you on the story of how he is bringing you the story. First, finance ministers and central bankers from the g7 nations met in dressed in today for the annual finance summit. Discussions on the Economic Growth and sustainability are on the agenda, but greece is turning out to be the talking point. Hans nichols is addressed and with more great this g7 meeting seems to be shaping up as a blame game. Hans there is going to be blame is there is no deal if there is no deal. They are quite far apart from a deal. Yesterday there was a flood in the market when news of a draft proposal was close. The eu shot that down and the fren
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