Stocks Closing Price on friday. Michelle, how was your weekend . It was great. How about yours . Fabulous. Good, good. In global news, chinas Statistics Bureau says the countrys economy is showing clear signs of stabilization. Among the reasons, policy support and some improvement in global demand. Chinas economy is said to be on track to meet the governments 2 on 13 growth target of 7. 5 . U. N. Inspectors in syria are now heading to the site of the alleged poison gas attack. Syria has supposedly agreed to allow the inspectors to visit the site. This comes amid calls from western powers for military action. Well have more from john harwood in just a few minutes. Here in the u. S. , dozens of wildfires burning this morning across the west. One of the most severe is raging out of control in the mountains of northern california. The latest reports say the giant wildfire has charred 15,000 acres within Yosemite National park. A live report from scott cohn who is on the ground there in the
Five men for the International Hacking and data breach. These and mastercard are two of the biggest names in the credit card business. Connell lets talk about it with brian finch. The thing here, we can start in the studio, they would be a number of companies they will talk about. They will save themselves they are in on this or was. Is my credit card Information Safe . Depends on what kind of data they have. Theres a lot of headlines risk, a lot of data they have, if there is track one versus track to come it can become much more onerous. Connell quick explanation. Basically your name and credit card number. Tough to replicate that. Track two is they have your address and can do a lot of harm with that. Connell companies are doing a good job, okay or could they could do a lot more to combat this . They are doing a fairly good job overall. People are trying to hack these systems everyday. In the contest of the number of transactions done, it is really pretty manageable. Connell the que
This is todays edition of worldwide exchange. Im ross westgate. Im kelly evans. These are your headlines from around the world the bulls are on the run. The dow hits an alltime high 164,286, surpassing the 2007 record. Telecom lead the beltway in europe with vodafone up more than 5 on report it could be eyeing a full merger with or sale to wireless giant verizon. Venezuela mourns the death of president hugo chavez as the rest of the world eyes the future of the countrys leadership and its vast oil reserves. One hour into the trading day in europe, fresh record highs on the dow. European stocks are looking for a softer start as you see. Were weighted to the upside 73. Advancers outpace decliners on the dow jones 600. Trading at multiyear highs and pushing higher this morning. The ftse 6,448. Consolidated the move, up. 25 as you see. Looking ahead to the bank of england tomorrow. Xetera dax up nearly 1 . The ibex up. Had . The. 4 , the mib up. 1 . As far as bond markets, interesting move
That is the change that were bringing about. When they introduce the 50 p they lost 7 billion pounds in tax revenue. Order. Youve been watching prime ministers questions from the british house of commons. It airs when live on cspan2 when the house of commons is in session. Watch any time at cspan. Org where you will find video of past prime ministers questions and other British Affairs programs. Next, Actress Ashley Judd talks about womens reproductive rights. Next a look at automatic spending cuts and then a discussion on the proposed merger between American Airlines and usair ways. After that a hearing on jobs and the u. S. Economy. You find washington and Silicon Valley are on two different planets . I think that is fair to say. I think the thais are getting closer. There is a lot more interaction than there was before puree good in many ways the folks in Silicon Valley did not care there was before. In many ways the folks in Silicon Valley did not care what was happening in washing
From the cell phone from a crash site shows the chaos the moment ss before it is recovered from the mountain and there are cold water thrown on that, but so far, so much leaked has been correct, so again, to night, so much to be a talked about. We will go to our justice correspondent pamela brown from dusseldorf with the lat esest. Pam, lufthansa is saying that they want to set the record straight that they did in fact know about the copilots issues with depression. That is right, isnt it . That is absolutely right, wolf. It is a Stunning Development here that we are learning from the airline that in 2009 Andreas Lubitz turned over documents selfreported that he had a bout with e depression when he was going through training, but before today, we heard from the lufthansa ceo that right after the crash that he said that the company didnt know anything about his medical issues and that he was 100 fit to fly. Take a listen. Might there have been signs or could there have been indications