Manus europe rallied. You are welcome. It is surveillance and i am manus cranny. Rallied. Ment, europe where up on the stoxx 600. It was text and telecoms that to the heavy lifting, nothing compared to your performance in asia. Record highs in asia. You are looking at levels that you havent seen since the 1990s in japan. Technology up 50 in asia. Europe, you are seeing this growth story. It is absolutely intact. The next question are you, European Equity markets, can you sustain the growth gains that we have had the euro at around 120 . Could the euro valuation unseat the story we see here . Week,llar index, what a what a year. This is the first yearly loss since 2012 for the dollar. You are seeing another push low. You get a 3 growth rate, you get a tax reform deal, you get three hikes from the Federal Reserve and still the dollar is lower. 2 lower from here at end of 2018. The most bearish view is the dollar will be down by another 5. 5 , not everybody is so pessimistic. On the upsid
Year stocks falling for a third day. , luxembourg and portugal higher. As a whole, the stoxx 600 is down for a third day. We are seeing the euro rise to a threeyear high against the dollar. All these currencies rising against the dollar as yields are gaining across europe today. Fairly hawkish comments from the ecb about the qe program. We will talk to Richard Jones about that one a little later. We had some pmi manufacturing data out of the u. K. Today. Lets look at the eurozone equivalent, rising by a record in december, capping a solid year. 60. 6 was the figure. That is a big increase in line with flash estimates since the survey began in 1997. The performance in december was not a flash in the pan. The average reading for 2017, new orders rose the most in 17 years, export demand at or close to record levels in a number of countries as well. Eurozone manufacturing, this is u. K. House prices. Two coastal areas saw the biggest house price increases in the u. K. Last year. Cheltenham
Today. We will be discussing this later on in the show. David lets head over to emma chandra with the first word news. Were moren there deaths overnight in antigovernment protests. Iranian state television reports that at least nine people were killed nationwide. A dozen had already died in demonstrations that began last week over the governments handling of the economy. The president has defended the right of people to protest. The u. S. Has confirmed that mike pence is delayed trip to the middle east is on for this month. Arab leaders denounced the u. S. For recognizing jerusalem as israels capital. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im emma chandra. This is bloomberg. Alix middle east still front and center. We thought we might have put that a little bit aside. Not so much. That for an exclusive discussion on the global risks shaping 2018 including those from the middle east we want to join Bloomberg Radio. Our collea
Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Taking sides in iran. The u. S. Praises the courage of the demonstrators and denies claims by irans Supreme Leader of involvement. Continued existence of serious, widespread poverty represents the threat to the very legitimacy of a communist party that came to power promising to help communities like these, not leave them behind. Laura and here is a page turner. This bookstore in scotland is letting anyone take over, and the move is proving a bestseller. Laura welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. In iran, protesters took to the streets for the sixth day in a row in the biggest challenge to the countrys religious leaders since 2009. Irans Supreme Leader says that enemies of his nation are stirring up unrest, a c
In buffalo right now. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. Much of the country today entered a second week of bitter cold. Tonight, freeze and wind chill warnings are up as far south as florida. The weather is blamed for at least 11 deaths. The highway outside buffalo, new york, as the snow fell, dozens of vehicles crashed one into the other today. Americans coast to coast woke up to subfreezing temperatures. The average temperature in the continental u. S. Early this morning was just 9. 1 degrees. And now the east coast is bracing for a major winter storm. We will have the forecast and reports tonight from Demarco Morgan and Omar Villafranca. First, demarco upon. Reporter the arctic blast that has been sweeping the country has been downing power lines, icing over roads, and causing dozens of water main breaks, turning neighborhoods, like this one, into an ice rink overnight. The cold snap has made it especially hard for Emergency Responders used to braving t