That has fallen slightly falling from 155. 2 versus reuters of 116. Remember, the 116 was the record level we hit back in july. Once again, we have a slight bit of a dip but by and large this is not too much of a fall. By and large german businesses have been quite resilient to some of the geopolitical stocks weve seen ill be speaking to the clemens fuest. Angela merkel has won a fourth term as chancellor while support for the far right surged they won 33 of the vote and will remain the Largest Group in parliament but the result marks the conservatives worst since 1949. Now the euro has slipped following the results as investors suggested the challenge that merkel faces to build a stable Coalition Government there you go 1. 1902 they are close to section lows down 4 . It seems like the euro is down more against the pound sterling. Youre seeing a little bit of nervousness around the task, very tricky task of perfeformint coalition and maybe less of a European Coalition addressing suppor
Holding talks about its options including an Asset Management ipo. What will it take to restore confidence . And a spinoff, energy goes public, pricing at the top end of the range. In europes biggest ipo. We will be speaking to the company ceo. Isoline the ftse 100 higher. The outperform or because of the flash crash of the pound. Aversion to all about the Great British pound once again. Little bit talk a about what is going on with the fair value in what is happening with the pound. The pound having an impact around the world. And it will have an impact on the ftse. If there was ever a chart, there it is. The flash crash of the pound rippling around the world. You do not have the british pound sitting up your very often. Down by 1. 23 . That is where we are trading. Seeill be interesting to how this ripples around the world because of the performance. We will find out whether the ftse enters a bull market today. At the moment, fair value suggests not but we are getting close. Will we
Anna flights over france are cut at a plant air Traffic Controller strike that could affect aircraft space for r 48 hours. Mark welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Investors pushing to a fresh sevenyear high today and trading from mainland investors are growing to a record. The surging chinese tech scares tech shares is making the day of the. Com bubble look mild. We will bring you the latest in just a couple of minutes. First up, oil here in europe today and what could be the biggest deal in more than a decade or the Energy Sector. Shell makes a 46 billion pound approach for gas producer bg group. Caroline, you have more on this possible deal. Hi caroline as you said, this could be the industrys biggest deal for a decade. This could create the secondbiggest Energy Producer in the world. It would be behind just exxon leaping over chevron in terms of size. And in fact, it could be the biggest gas producer in the entire world. These are the statistics that we are looking at, and as y
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