previews sunday s presidential election in haiti, as the country struggles to recover from the earthquake and a cholera epidemic. woodruff: mark shields and david brooks offer their analysis of the week s news. brown: and on the day after thanksgiving, ray suarez talks to david beckmann, winner of this year s world food prize about feeding the hungry at home and abroad. what we need to finished job, to overcome hunger andç poverty is moreç organized give a damn. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. çç brown: retailers hoped to capitalize today on what s expected to be a more profitable holiday shopping season than last year s. but the big holiday push comes amid continu
be sweating bullets currently. brown: then, from port-au- prince, npr s jason beaubien previews sunday s presidential election in haiti, as the country struggles to recover from the earthquake and a cholera epidemic. woodruff: mark shields and david brooks offer their analysis of the week s news. brown: and on the day after thanksgiving, ray suarez talks to david beckmann, winner of this year s world food prize about feeding the hungry at home and abroad. what we need to finished job, to overcome hunger andç poverty is moreç organized give a damn. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. çç brown: retailers hoped to capitalize today on what s expected to be a more profita
prince, npr s jason beaubien previews sunday s presidential election in haiti, as the country struggles to recover from the earthquake and a cholera epidemic. woodruff: mark shields and david brooks offer their analysis of the week s news. brown: and on the day after thanksgiving, ray suarez talks to david beckmann, winner of this year s world food prize about feeding the hungry at home and abroad. what we need to finished job, to overcome hunger andç poverty is moreç organized give a damn. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. çç brown: retailers hoped to capitalize today on what s expected to be a more profitable holiday shopping season than last year s. but the big ho
i m christine kohn in asia. the nikkei falls to lowest close in six months. i m steve sedgwick, in europe, a second term in office and gets her dream coalition with the prohibition democrats. and the u.s., investors begin to look to third quarter erjs as the next big test to the recove recovery. hello, and welcome to cnbc s worldwide exchange. let s take a look at the markets with a look at the cnbc global 300 index, which is continuing, i m afraid on the downward momentum of the previous week. down .641%, but september hasn t yet proved as bad as many who feared we would see some severe declines after the rallies over the previous months. in terms of the individual european bosses are alive and trading at the moment. the xetra dax, still down. more about that of course throughout the show, but live through berlin throughout the show. between .5% and 1.3%. out regarding the strength of the yen, it pulled away from the recent highs. dollar/yen at 89.56. the euro dollar
unemployment, soaring debt. they haven t been able to pay off and they missed their budget deficit targets last week. on top of all that, the political turmoil, the government had to resign last month, we reported on that. really, portugal hasn t really had a choice in this. mr. socrates said he did not want to have any international help to help bail out or even help the country s economy. what brought about the change of heart or was it a last resort? the reason why he s been so reluck tan is the portugal has bitter memories from the 1980s when the imf bailed them out and introduced strict austerity his yurs. portugal did not have a choice. they simply couldn t pay back the debt. these figures are important, if we look at the treasury bills and the auctioning of the treasury bills and look at the interest portugal was being charged, i think we can see some of the figures now. they borrowed $550 million euros