The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this
Coach says she was one of a kind. Such a great kid. There are 26 girls on our soccer team and two coaches and shes just beloved by everybody, smiling all the time, hard working, fun to be around, team oriented, just a wonderful kid. We are devastated. Reporter administrators say students are returning from the Holiday Weekend tonight and tomorrow. Its a small school of only a few hundred students and tomorrow to talk about what happened and to remember janey. Adam sexton, wmur news 9. Josh we know the name of the driver that was killed while allegedly speeding a way from police, investigators say an officer in stoddard first tried to pull over 59yearold kevin morong, who sped off on route 9, racing through his where and into then henniker before being thrown from his car in a crash involving three other vehicles. Reached speeds of more than 100 Miles Per Hour and camed to stop for police on two occasions. It started started in stoddard t night when a state trooper saw a blue toyota rav
Says why a speedy internet could mean big business for provo, utah. You are watching Market Makers. Good morning. I am Erik Schatzker. And i am stephanie ruhle. First, it is his birthday i am a huge done johnny cash fan. It is time for other news, top business stories around the world. The political crisis in the ukraine is spreading as gunmen seize the Parliament Building in the crimean region and russia has put fighter jets in the area on combat alert. The next Prime Minister of the ukraine believes that russia will never intervene on a military basis. The government has finally turned a profit on the bailout of freddie mac. Mortgage finance or will return 10 billion to the federal Treasury Department next month. All are required to return profits as a condition of their bailout. Freddie mac and fannie mae have billion in taxpayers have actually profited off of the bailout. Wall street has learned that you cant always take jamie diamond literally. Diamond dimon literally. They said,
I am in favor of one but i have to say i probably dont need to be as delicate as mr. Cicconi may need to be. I think the fcc has been a little more slow i would say. So i would like to see them move quickly. And id think they would yield useful information but i dont want to see them used over a long time of watching the fcc. Sometimes i know when you see things like this they can be used in ways that he lay the ultimate decision making. That shouldnt be allowed to happen in these projects. You started by mentioning the interconnection of transition and i said this in my testimony with regard to vip interconnection. I dont think and im just assuming we will have the trial or not. Ultimately i dont think the fcc should presume that its going to regulate these interconnection agreements in the same way that it did. Its likely that there wont be any interconnection problem that hasnt been the case with your ip to ip connection to read theyve been very rare that theres been disputes that t