Sovereign debt. And a slowdown in australias mining boom catches up on revenues. It sent the nations deficit looming well past earlier forecasts. Plus, the prognosis with doctors, less than healthy. Gsk will stop paying doctors for promoting its drug, a first for the pharmaceutical industry. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And welcome. Youre now watching cnbcs worldwide exchange. Plenty to get through on todays program as we get into the christmas and new years spirit. Will there be much cause to celebration as far as assets are concerned . Well speak to an expert who is advising caution on european equities in around to minutes. After months of rapid gains, the u. S. Housing market appears to be well on the way to recovery. But buyers beware, the seconder could cool off. Were going to check on housing at 11 00 cet. As glasso smith cline announces a shake up in its policy to promote drugs, well take a look at pharmaceutical
Four and a half days. They say they are tired of the way things have been going. I had a chance to speak with valerie cooper. Why are you here today . Were fighting for a fair contract. For not just bart workers the thing that concern concerns me is that numbers bart put out and media put out there change weekly. Real truth is more than our salary. How long are you willing to sit out . As long as it takes but understand, none of us want to go on strike. Fdiu does not have the power force a strike. Bart has the power force a strike that. Is what theyre doing. Thank you for sharing the story with us. You can see this rally is only going down to bart headquarters. Leaders have told me unless management comes with a different offer theyll give notice to strike. Weve learned members of occupy oakland plan to infiltrate the crowds. nycn i can tell you opd isf[n on stad by. Again, what we leave here well follow crowds down to bart headquarters and that is where they are scheduled to march dow
Nightmare on the roadways. A second strike may be a pons yinlt possibility. Thanks for joining us. With an estimated 10 fewer people on vacation, a strike next week is sure to be worse than the last one, just less than a month ago. Negotiations have recessed for the day. Union officials left talks to attend a rally in downtown oakland. Sky 7 is over that rally right now. The workers about embark to bart headquarters. Buses and ferries have been lined up in the event of a strike. We have Team Coverage for you tonight. And nick smith is at the rally. Nick, lets start with you. Danny glover spoke about 15 minutes ago. 500 people here to hear him speak. Listen to what he thood say. He had to say. This is a view from sky 7. I can put people here between 400 and 500 strock. Now they say theyre all here because negotiations between bart manment and two main unions have been going on since march. Two sides remain far apart at issues at the core of the dispute. I can tell you strike and four an
A dead giveaway. The ugly an acronym, krispy kreme u. K. The firm apologized after using kkk wednesday. They said it was completely unintentional. Frocks frocks fox friends starts now. Intoorm. It is february 18. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. The state department doubling down on its jobs for jihadis comments and they are blaming president bush. President george w. Bush talked about poverty being one of the drivers that lead people to extremism. Unbelievable. This as the isis carnage continues to escalate. And islamic extremism . Youre not going to hear that at the white house during the summit. They say its all just hype made up by us. We spend more time more time talking about what do you call it as opposed to what do you do about it . Fox didnt talk about this they would have nothing else to talk about, it would seem to me. Does it matter what we call it . Well discuss that. Well have nothing else to talk about except rocco. We could talk about dogs. We could talk about whatever else com
that supports the right to work. that tent, that organization, quickly became the target of angry union demonstrators. as you see, the lob of left wing thugs ultimately tore down the structure and they did so with people inside. however, what transpired before that is even more disturbing. let s take a look. what is it about right to work that you oppose so much? what is it about right to work? it s because it s the freedom to free load. they can suck all of the pair site cal benefits unions have negotiated and they have done it for free. get out of my face [bleep]. get out of my [bleep] face. you hurt nobody. get out of my [bleep] face. back off. back [bleep] off. okay. [chanting and yelling]