Sportsday has the latest action from the fa cup weekend fifth round ties, along with the highlights from todays winter olympics. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Team gb is celebrating its most successful day in winter olympic history. Lizzy yarnold won gold in the womens skeleton becoming the first briton ever to defend a winter olympic title. There was a bronze too in the event for her team mate laura deas, and a bronze in the ski slopestyle for izzy atkin. But there was disappointment for the medalfavourite Elise Christie who crashed in the semi final of the 1500 metre speed skating and was taken to hospital. David ornstein reports from pyeongchang. Guiding Great Britain to unprecedented glory, Lizzy Yarnold and laura deas turning dreams into reality, rewriting the record books. Commentator Lizzy Yarnold next, the olympic champion, can she make history and win it again . Yarnold went into her final slide in second place, but conjured an imperious display and the fastest time an
The latest action from the fa cup fifth round ties, along with the highlights from todays winter olympics. Good evening. Team gb is celebrating its most successful day in winter olympic history. Lizzy yarnold won gold in the womens skeleton becoming the first briton ever to defend a winter olympic title. There was a bronze too in the event for her team mate laura deas, and a bronze in the ski slopestyle for izzy atkin. But there was disappointment for the medalfavourite Elise Christie who crashed in the semi final of the 1500 metre speed skating and was taken to hospital. David ornstein reports from pyeongchang. Guiding Great Britain to unprecedented glory, Lizzy Yarnold and laura deas turning dreams into reality, rewriting the record books. Commentator Lizzy Yarnold next, the olympic champion, can she make history and win it again . Yarnold went into her final slide in second place, but conjured an imperious display and the fastest time any woman has produced on this track to enter sp
Battle for patents for the second time in seven years. Donald trump calls on carl icahn to help him combat excessive regulation as the activist investor will become the president elects special adviser. Good morning. Good morning. Do you hear that . Whole bunch of kids super excited. Santa on the way. Always on the roof. Dasher, dancer, prancer. I think we should do something on reindeer, whether or not they really have red noses. The stoxx 600 flat to a couple points lower. You would anticipate we would be looking at light liquidity at the moment. People already packing up their bags if theyre heading to the caribbean. Trade very thin. Just a reminder that officially the japanese market is closed tomorrow because of the emperors birthday. So we will have no trade another reason for quiet. Exactly. Mixed markets in europe, the ftse, xetra dax, a bit lower. To the upside, media, autos, healthcare. Big story in healthcare biotech, the underlying pharmaceuticals. Basic resources off by 1
No chit chat. I stay focused. Since this is when the fundamentals really come to the fore and direct the overall direction of the market like today where the dow gained 29 points. Nasdaq advanced 0. 02 . Unfortunately its not all earnings weve got to deal with next week. Whats your game plan . Let me show you mine. Ive been saying that the fed is prepping us right now for a december rate hike, a big reason why this market cant get out of its own way and feels so sloppy. More on that later. Now, fed vice chairman Stanley Fisher will speak monday, and hes been a major rate hike proponent. I bet his new speech will cause this market to get hit. Hes hurt stocks virtually ever time hes opened his mouth in 2016. But fishers words will help some stocks, notably the banks, and bank of america reports on morning. The stock has been advancing of late, was up nicely today. Even though its still dirt cheap, i have to wonder if bank of america has gotten ahead of itself thanks to the excellent earn
Nasdaq advanced 0. 02 . Unfortunately its not all earnings weve got to deal with next week. So whats your game plan . Let me show you mine. Ive been saying that the fed is prepping us right now for a december rate hike, a big reason why this market cant get out of its own way and feels so sloppy. More on that later. Now, fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer will speak monday, and hes been a major rate hike proponent. I bet his new speech will cause this market to get hit. Hes hurt stocks virtually every time hes opened his mouth in 2016. But fischers words will inevitably help some stocks, notably the banks, which benefit from higher rates, and bank of america reports monday morning. The stock has been advancing of late, was up nicely today. Even though its still dirt cheap, i have to wonder if bank of america has gotten ahead of itself thanks to the excellent earnings today from jpmorgan and citigroup. Some terrific pin action in all the banks today. If bank of america gets hit, it might