People remain alert and aware. Later in gmt, do you read a tablet before going to sleep . New Research Says it could be interrupting your sleep. Also, jamie has a look at whats happening in the business news. Theyre playing russian roulette. Theyre ordered to dump dollars and theyve succeeded in reversing the ruble selloff, for now. Its 9 00 p. M. In pyongyang, where Internet Access has been restored after an almost unprecedented outage across north korea. The timing of the incident is interesting. It comes just weeks after a cyber attack on sony pictures. Which made a comedy about north Korean Leader kim jongun. Following threats, sony announced it was cancelling the release of the movie altogether. Washington said it would launch a proportional response. Computer experts say north koreas internet was completely out for around 9. 5 hours. Websites did become back online later on tuesday, though, and one of the first stories to come back on staterun news was this one here about kim jon
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Breaking pmi data slightly ahead of expectations. Pmi rising. 51 point five. Just half a basis points higher than expected. If you look at the competence of each country, it is the same as manufacturing that was week and some parts. We have to put up. For in percentage terms. We are trading at highs on the back of a composite number we have had out. I think what will be fascinating is to see how the european economy reacts to significantly lower oil prices. Russia. Lets talk about russia and what is happening there. The backbone for the ruble. The russians situated and cruising entries rate to 70 overnight to defend the currency. That went well. The Russian Central Bank 17 overnight to defend our currency. They lost percent of their value yesterday and you have to go back to 1998 to see a similar day loss. And a rate hike and today, the ruble has given up all of the gains on the back of that and is down against the dollar. I have to look at the screen, it keeps changing. Six and six ru
Eurozone for this month. Were looking at it coming in higher than the expectation. Yes. So the december the december composite pmi flash estimate was forecast at 61. 5 and it came in at 61. 7. So a tad higher than anticipated. Were looking at the euro trade slightly higher against the u. S. Dollar right now at 1. 2487. But we should give you the full picture, which is that the euro has appreciated against the u. S. Dollar by around 10 this year. But again, better than expected manufacturing data helping against the euro slightly. Good morning, by the way. How are you . Wonderful. And you . We were together on the show a couple weeks back. A pleasure. Yeah. The german pmi data, the lowest since june of 2013, 51. 4 for the month of december. That broke about a half an hour ago, Something Like that. Its still in expansionary territory, sort of above that 50 level. But weve now seen it at a lower rate, Something Like so, again, we are looking at a pretty low level with regard to these pmi