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Kilometers away. The flooding along the micong river thats claimed dozens of lives. Hello. In greece, three senior figures. Countrys far right Golden Dawn Party have been freed on bail. The government is cracking down after a leader was stopped to death. The leader is due to appear in court. He is charged with running a criminal group. Joining me now live from athens is our correspondent, barnaby phillips. What do we expect to happen now . Reporter well, its hard to know because the release of three of the four members of parliament whos hearings began yesterday is somewhat unexpected, it has to be said. They walked out an hour ago. In fact, its only the spokesman of golden dawn who is going to have to pay bail of 50,000 your os. The only two only have travel restrictions if you would like. They are not allowed to leave the country. Another remains behind bars. All attention is on the leader. The expectation that he will be charged like his fellow Party Members with leading a criminal
Tomorrow, many federal offices stay closed, and americans are beginning to feel the affects. Lady liberty is closed and veterans are not receiving care. We cover workers without paychecks in california, nasa operating on a skeleton cue in houston, and reports. Day one of the federal Government Shutdown is about to turn into day two. Tuesday was spent lobbing blame back and forth on capitol hill. Senate democrats are sticking to the pledge to support a clean funding bill. They say while they want the Government Back up and running, its not worth tearing apart the federal health care law. Harry reid, the majority speaker, called on john boehner to stop the game. Republicans are saying that it may be time to talk about passing a clean spending bit without dealing with the federal healthcare law, about the gop leadership is pushing forward and not giving a lot of ground. Tuesday they tried a new tactic, trying to fund three parts of the government rather than a whole bill. They tackled vet
Homes sold compared to 4,704,000 homes in october. It the median price rose to a 270,900. That it is up on your screen. Just one year ago. Housing looking good. The Biggest Technology company in the world one day after investors cheered the Apple Partnership with china mobile. Less than sobering news today. Chinas a 3d growth and the smart phone sales slowed in the fourth quarter. I mean, there are a million different found that people can buy. Remember, apple iphone some are considered expensive in china. They are a status symbol. Right now apple barely pulling back. A very Merry Christmas eve on the floor of the new york stock the exchange. We have a volumelight, but the biggest tips for the year, we should talk about them. Some include names that you never would have imagined that, at least this time last year. Reporter we will take a look on the s p 500. 500 names. So many different industries. We take a look at the winning year on wall street, the five best performers. There is a
This economy is now gradually turning the corner. Dp dp, as you mentioned, is picking up. House prices are moving in the right direction. A step up in sanctions, the eu considered banning europeans compared to seeing any new debt or stocks issued by russias largest bank. And the federal Aviation Authority lifts its ban on flights to tel aviv as secretary of state john kerry arrive necessary cairo to push for a peace settlement. A warm welcome to todays worldwide exchange. Weve had pmis out in germany. Weve got the composite pmi numbers coming through. July, 54 is the level of the composite eurozone pmi. The manufacturing pmi coming in at 51. 9 for july. The forecast there, 51. 7. So a slight pick up in the manufacturing numbers, but the service is much stronger again for july, coming in at 54. 4 versus 52. 7. So that feeds into what weve got for the data in germany and france. Those appear to be divergent further in the Manufacturing Sector in the euro. Weve got germanys flash coming i