Last year, since back 2018. Any minute President Trump set to leave the white house ahead of a rally in michigan tonight. The house of representatives debating two articles of impeachment against the president. Well bring comments he makes as soon as they happen. Melissa fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman at white house. Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence standing by on capitol hill. Edward, we kick it off with you. Reporter one by one republicans, democrats, expressing concerns over the president or concerns about the article of impeachment. House floor, adam schiff, representative adam schiff from the Intelligence Committee but out come is all but certain there will be impeachment of the president down party lines where that vote will go. Now republicans and democrats both citing concerns here on either side. The vote to set up this vote if that is any indication, there will be two democrats that will actually switch sides here to vote no
Accomplishment for the president. But, mixed global data offers a reality check as both german and french manufacturing figures miss forecast with germanys private sector contracting for the fourth month in a row. Shares sink after the Home Appliance maker warns bigger than expected hit from a plant in south carolina. A tasty deal iff will buy duponts nutrition and bio science business creating a consumer giant worth 45 billion. Well, happy monday, very warm welcome to street signs. Lets kick off the show with a fresh data point thats just crossed the wires. Thats the eurozone flash pmi for december for the eurozone as a whole the composite came in unchanged at 50. 6 that was the same level we saw in november. The manufacturing pmi, that flash 1 slipped to 45. 9. So slightly lower than the 46. 9 seen in november the services pmi, that rose to 52. 4 from 51. 9 in november so slightly more positive news on the services front, weaker news on the manufacturing front, which is really bang i
Come back after a mixed day in asia after the dow logs its largest losing streak since august fighting words. Xi jinping insists a phase one deal must be based on Mutual Respect. And Manufacturing Activity in france and germany expanding that beat expectations you mentioned some flash data we have some more here we have the november flash numbers for the november pmi coming in at 46. 6 and services coming in at 50. 3 against 50. 6 in october and coming in at 51. 5 for november against 52. 2 last month. We saw the german and the french data that was better than expected that led to the small rise in the euro i wouldnt say it was a huge rise we are seeing the euro changing at 1. 1056 given that the french number beat consensus. The german number well below that 50 boom bust level at 43. 8 versus 42. 1 for october. The services for both countries was below forecast but maybe this points to a little bit of a stablization even though we are still looking at pretty stag nant on this lets bri
Dont forget, we have heard a huge amount of noise over the last few minutes, last few days, i should say from various politicians in germany and on that front, i want to bring in my colleague, anita we have heard again and again and again from analysts, from economies they would like to see fiscal stimulus in germany whats the latest when it comes to government appetite, political appetite for that possibility . Actually the better the Business Indicators are getting the less appetite is there i think the rational in germany among politicians in berlin any way was always a recession in their ideas when they see it already on the labor market. With we see deterioration in unemployment numbers thats the moment when politicians in germany would be willing to act in terms of fiscal spending. The more were getting away from that, the less well likely see a big bang for the stimulus package coming out of germany. What we might actually get is some tax free forms that at least in preparation
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Zeinab badawi speaks to the icelandic danish artist Olafur Eliasson at the tate modern in london. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi, from tate modern in london. Where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist Olafur Eliasson. He believes that artist can change the world by, for instance, attempting to tackle Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss, and the idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment. For instance, could our buildings from the future be made from more Sustainable Materials . Is this kind of thinking visionary, or just simply far fetched . This kind of thinking visionary, or just simply far fetched . Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You had a fairly unorthodox ringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, your father young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather i9. Young when they had yo