Our electric grid. Following the nairobi shooting in the shopping mall, we did a Campaign Across the country to enhance the security and resilience of shopping malls all across this country. That has continued with training exercises and regular interactions. Particularly the attacks in paris, we recognize that the great work we were doing all across the country with owners and operators of commercial facilities we could perhaps taylor more effectively for smaller venues, like the cafes, the smaller venues like the 9. 30 club across the country appeared we went back to our mitigation efforts, and we set fordo we tailor this smaller entities that not have a big, robust Security Operations . So we developed the Homeland Security hometown security initiative, and we developed handouts. Report, plan, train, and , to encourage those entities, to make sure that they connects not only with the federal resources that we can bring to their disposal, which is at the National Infrastructure coord
Power over fiscal policy in individual states. Air france klm is one of the worst performing stocks in europe after the carrier strikes force to issue a profit warnings. Tesco is upgraded by hsbc, sending its share price over 3 higher. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And as we said at the top there, were at a 1 1 2 month low in European Equity markets. The stoxx 600 is off 0. 5 today. The stoxx 50 off a similar amount well, actually, it says roughly flat. Lets look at those individual markets. If you would think looking at the sectors, the likes of autos, the likes of travels, utilities is the only outperformers. The ftse 100 is out 0. 4 pergs. Germany is down 0. 6 . France off just a little bit. Lets look at bonds. Panic selling in equities yesterday also meant panic buying in bonds. That follows the imf forecast only slightly downgraded its Global Growth outlook for this year and next year. Nonetheless, a flight to safety
Attack shortly before the fbi acknowledged the countrys involvement. Just a short announcement. Secretary hagel authorized 1300 more troops to deploy to iraq. Approximately a thousand of them are soldiers from the Thur Burr Gade combat team 8nd air division based in fort brag in north carolina. This is part of the additional 1500 troops the president authorized in november. With that i will take questions. You said 1300 but only a thousand listed. Do you know where they are coming from . The others . They are coming from multiple Services Like Counter Intelligence it is multi service. We talked about this before where a good chunk of the troops including would be to close included in the enabling capabilities. I dont have all of the units but i can get that if you need it. They are small groups and i dont have that level of detail. Has the secretary receive the bergdahl recommendations from the army . Are they complete . Is the report complete . Are you going to release it before chris
Coming up in a few minutes. A couple of different stories were watching. The nasdaq partying like its the year 2000. Closing above 5,000 for the First Time Since then in only the third time ever. The nasdaq now. 8 away from the record close. There is a surprise from down under this morning. Australia central bank holding back on further easings. Gasoline prices jumped 37cents a gallon. Now thats the largest week to week increase since the agency began its survey in 1992 but life is relative and if you remember where things were six months ago its hard to complain. So it doubled in three and doubled again in three. So it doubled 72 divided by 3 is 24. 24. So its probably is it 24 return in six years if it quadruples . Yeah. If it sits right you can do it. So the nasdaq is up so instead of 6 or 7 for equity appreciation the nasdaq since 2009, 24 a year. So stay out of the market. If you put that money in 15 years ago youre just giving it back. They didnt have money 15 years ago. They wer
Set to get underway. It was a day marked by growing pessimism over congressional leaders over the fiscal cliff. Is this meeting a sign progress is quietly being made with both sides . Rich edson is at the white house for us. Rich. Good evening, sandra. House Speaker John Boehner left the Capitol Building about 10 minutes ago. He will motorcade over here. He should be here in a short while to begin yet another meeting with president obama. The two had a phone call earlier this week. On the phone the House Speaker said they made little progress. Aides say over the last few weeks there has been little discussion, constructive discussion moving towards a compromise. This is yet another attempt to get something moving. The white house put an offer on the table. Republicans called it a joke. House republicans put a offer on the table. White house said it wasnt serious. Since then the two sides have not moved that much closer to one another. The white house wants Immediate Tax increase on fam