Mining getting a little bit. Doing to the market . Lets nip in and see how those. Re doing. Ur deals report are will he approached should now go approach chinalco . A rather hefty price. That was a bit of a painful do a. Could they try to deal to build momentum . The american repository stormed ahead. We will see how rio does in london. With thething to do ebola out rate in spain. Outbreak in spain. They have notified they have been subject to allegations of bribery. You a coupleo give numbers. They look like they are disclosing. It is coming off its overall highs. Stephanie funders was here. Simon smiles is here. I know you are going to tie up the names. I know you are the only man who can do it. Do much for the dollar, did she . Her pair the markets for rate prepare the markets for rate rises. A slightly different and in terms of the euro dollar. It really batters it away. Down is already implied . Ideae has a pretty good where it is. Lets bring in the chief strategist. Joining us. T
We have got to keep an eye on the United States. Today we have the Federal Reserve, the end of that twoday meeting. Economists expect them to end that considerable time. Instead we will have a datadependent approach. Barclays says they may raise their forecast. This amid the currency crisis in russia, plunging oil prices. Lets check in on oil. It is in a downward spiral. 4 . Up by four it is talking down the ruble and the rest of the emerging markets. Moment,e at the currently the dollar is falling against the ruble. The is after moving from central bank. It is horrid times for russia. A look in at what is exposed to russia. , all three companies exposed to russia and get significant sales. Ult has been trying to of sales of cars in russia to stabilize themselves as the ruble continues to fall. Apple closed their online sales because they say the extreme caused theuation stock to get hit. Lets look at other areas. Oil prices are sinking once again. Phillips up by 3. 6 . Off by 3. 6 . E
Markets have had a bullish run. The Energy Producers rose by almost six and a half percent. What youre seeing is is that a sustainable rise. Is that bounce and oil good for the market . They say, no, its not because it would encourage lazy producers. Sky leads the pace. A great interview with the cfo. It is the italian french british juggernaut. Caroline hyde will have the details. Record sales in germany and austria. The number of people going off in search of new opportunities. Greek bonds, great markets rising by 16 . Sky stock up 2. 8 . 959. 5. Standard charter up half a percent. One of the biggest shareholders Aberdeen Asset management a very good bank. Mr. Sanz has pledged 4000 job cuts, and he is making 400 million in savings. The stock is marching higher in london. Sky up 2. 3 . Not you individually, but on a global basis. They are confirming 2015 has been a good year for their core brand. Fashion and leather is where it counts. Up 4 , top of the analyst estimates. They were th
The ibex up 7 but when it came to the storming triumphant return it was the greek market 25 . The dollarrussian index was up 22 . In terms of individual names willie walsh quite happy at ied. Their stock up 5 . Operating profit up 81 . North america doing quite nicely. Caroline will break these numbers down. Lloyds has the first dividend since the crisis again. They missed on their overall headline numbers but a dividend of. 57 tenths. They had more people he i hundred Million Pounds. Cells be now, that is how the equity markets performed. I will use of marks stats. If you use a bar chart stat you are usually in safe territory. 9. 3 is where we are in terms of yield. The best performing bond market on the global basis. If you had any mind at all, some would say that you would have cut and run. If you had proverbial nerves of steel you wouldve been handsomely rewarded for the month of february, 14 return on greek bond investments. A market for the brave. Jonathan looking at some breakin
Lets quickly chuckled the markets to cause we have quite a good quarter to talk about. European shares extending their biggest quarter expansion since 1999. The benchmark equity measures in germany and portugal rallied more than 20 . This comes as we have the qe program and Economic Data that was slightly better than forecast in the last two years. We are expecting a lot more to come. We have employment figures and consumption figures later this week amongst the 18 European Countries greece is the only one falling for the quarter. Lets kick off with greece and a search for allies and a search for allies in the fight against austerity britain creditors protecting greece proposal and Alexis Tsipras is pushing to look further for support. Domestically and abroad. Hans nichols has it. First of all, tell us more about the reform proposal. We had at the official list and they want more. Hans officials are unimpressed by the 15 page document for the it raises about 3. 7 billion in revenue and