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Stoxx 600 as Morgan Stanley cuts the chipmaker to underweight. Good morning. Lets kick you off with some Eurozone Services pmi numbers. The final december composite pmi was 54. 4. Pmi pointing to Fourth Quarter gdp growth of 0. 4 and prices charged rose at the fastest rate since july 2011. Finally inflationary pressures coming through. Lets look at some of the services pmi. Eurozone december pmi at 53. 7. The forecast was for a print of 53. 1. Easily beating expectations. To tell you across the regions we saw in germany a services pmi at a fivemonth high. Italian services pmi was below expectations and showing slowing in december. We did see an uptick in spain and in france an 18month high. Mixed picture here. This following a Strong Manufacturing pmi earlier in the week. Prices ticking up. Thats something we have been seeing in the uk. Lets give you a view of the european bourses an hour into the session. Mixed trade with softness on the ftse 100. Basically the uk main market is flat
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. What the president and his attorneys are up to, devlin barrett. They really moved quickly to get out there, the notion that there is no directive or order behind this tweet. No other set of instructions going to the justice department. And while they say, you know, this is just his opinion, the truth is that the president does sometimes announce or carry out Executive Decisions via tweet. You can ask rex tillerson, the former secretary of state about that who was essentially fired by a tweet. This is an amazing day. I think there were incredible things that happened today. But how it all plays out and what the ultimate consequences of these things is still playing
on it great point. Thanks for your time. Here to help me joyce vance. We already know that the mueller team was looking at pronouncements by the president by tweets. An interesting debates about the status of those legally. What do you make of what he said today . Today look loose i ca
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i
Night. Just a few hours ago speaker of the house nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump saying his action in regard to ukraine marked a, quote, breach of his constitutional responsibilities. This week the president has admitted to asking the president of ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. The action of the the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our National Security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. Therefore today im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. This is a huge escalation from a speaker that has been very, very, very reluctant to formally dive into impeachment. She has in some ways had very little choice as more than 40 and maybe more Congressional Democrats have come out in support of impeachment proceedings just since yesterday morning. And that includes A