Sluggish commodities demand. Were on tuesday and off to a slightly, what, soft close yesterday for european stocks. Right now were pretty evenlies passed, advancers just about outpacing decliners on the stoxx 600, but not by much, 5 4 if that. So one hour into the trading session, this is where we stand. The ftse 100 just flat, a flat close yesterday. The dax was essentially fairly flat yesterday. Up just ten points. The cac 40 yesterday doing a little bit better, up 0. 2 . First pointing out ftse up 9 out of the last 11. We have seen yields continue to decline in spain. Just 5. 23 , but still capped. Spain requesting financial assistance. Well keep our eye on the uk as we head toward the bank of england meeting this week p. Dollar index has hit a one month low. Youre redollar up to eurodollar up near the high we saw yesterday. Dollaryen moving away from the 7 1 2 month high. Rebounding against the dollar and the euro ir, as well. Priced in a lot in terms of Monetary Policy out of japa
This is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside al roker and natalee moralis. Hey, sugar, take a walk on the wild side. Can we turn that up a bit. I remember playing that m freshman year as a disc jockey. Great song. Tributes are pouring all in. Well have more on the death of lou reed. New revelations on the nsa spying program. This morning, some of our closest allies are furious. Andrea mitchell is nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent. Andrea . Good morning, matt. Today el mundo shows that the u. S. A. Tracked 60 calls in a month. Theyre demanding answers about the nsa spying on germanys leader, angela merkel. With europe demanding new rules of the road to control the vast electronic snooping. Reporter when he was a candidate barack obama was a rock star in europe. That was then. This is now. As europe reacts angrily to news that the u. S. Spied on 35 lea
Sweeping gun control efforts. The National Rifle association is vowing the fight of the century to block that. Well talk to the nras president coming up. An inside look at scientology. An exclusive interview with oscar winning director and former scientology member paul hagut says he thinks the religion is a cult. The church dismisses him as the hypocrite of hollywood. Well speak with him and talk to the author of a new book that explores the link between scientology and hollywood. We want to get to breaking news. Nbcs nichelle cokosinkski liven london. Reporter this has been changing by the moment. First, the report that a number of hostages has escaped. Now that algerians have raided the facility and a number of have been killed, including hostages. 41 people held, among them americans, british, norwegians, and they called this retribution for french intervention in neighboring mali against militant there. At this hour scattered reports out of the algerian desert. That large bp gas f
This morning well tell you what you should avoid touching and well conduct a little experiment here in studio 1a to see how many people touch the doorknob coming in our studio in a single morning. And Ryan Seacrest is here, and he better watch his personal items because hes going to help us out on a segment about the best pick pockets in the world. Have you ever been pick pocketed . No. Its awful. Dylan, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Yes, this is a big storm in that it extends from Northern New England all the way down into the gulf of mexico and in areas like worcester, we are seeing the snow continuing to fall where he duwith reduced visibility and schools shut down in that area. But then look back into western virginia. Thats where we have winter storm watches, but its the ice storm warnings and the freezing rain advisories extending back into portions of tennessee and into mississippi as well. You can see the pink on the map there on the radar. We are still seeing freez
Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases