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
Obama campaigned for laughs at a charity fundraiser. Actually mitt is his middle name. I wish i could use my middle name. In the spirit of sesame street the president s remarks are brought to you by the letter o and the number 16 trillion. It begs the question what are we doing here . The entire Student Visa Program has come under fire after a student tried to blow up the Federal Reserve. Google went down 9 on thursday costing investors 20 billion. Tigers are going to the world series. Welcome to oklahoma. A dust storm shut down part of i35. Looks like something out of the dust bowl. We have the video of a pro wrestler springing into action on a light train rail to stop a crime. A giant panda who has taken his first baby steps. These first steps is whats called clumsy. All that body waxing . Chris matthews. Bill, well inhale helium balloons. And all that matters. I was hoping the president would bring joe biden along this evening because hell laugh at anything. On cbs this morning. How
It seems a woman on death row in the state of georgia is about out of options. She was sentenced to death for convincing her lover to murder her husband. The u. S. Supreme court denied a last ditch stay of execution. Martin savage has been following the story and joins us live from atlanta. Just spring us up to speed with where things stand right now. Is she out of options . Does she have any more chances of reprieve on the state level . Just help us on where things stand . Yeah, they got thereon a number of different legal hurdles and also gone for the georgia parole board. There are very few options left. I wont say none. As long as shes alive her lawyers are going to hope theres some last ditch effort. First of all, they had to go through the parole and pardons board of georgia. There was a hearing held in the state. It lasted for a number of hours. There was system given, even by her own children. They said dont give her death, give her life in prison. That did not happen. That set
Amid warnings of a dangerous bushfire season, Alan Atkinson looks back on living through the Ash Wednesday disaster 40 years ago and asks: have we become complacent, and could it happen again?