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Board. Ftse 100 down. Dax down over 0. 5 . , almost byweaker too 0. 7 . Lets take a look at the dollar. This is going to be the currency in focus today. Looking pretty flat, but it is at a sevenmonth high against the euro. Look at the dollar index. The bloomberg dollar index tracks the dollar against a basket of 10 major currencies. That is at a record high. That is the dollar. Ill keep you uptodate on equities. Weve got to look at the Commodity Markets as well. Gold coming in pretty flat. This ...

A look of what else we are dropping. 82 year low. Currencies, what we have seen is a move towards the safe haven. Yen strengthening against the dollar. The swiss franc is strengthening against the dollar. What we have seen as the euro becomes a safe haven. The correlation between the euro yen act of the highest since 2007. That is the currency. I cannot get back to you until i have a look at oil. I want to look at wti first. A three day bull rally up and three days. The biggest threeday gain in ...

We wait for the dax to open. The Oil Important number of oil continuing to decline. Is relentless. Thats what is fixating on investors minds. Below 60. 59. 38. The 10th week of declines in Oil Prices Since october. There seems to be no end inside. Iran saying we could see prices below 40 a barrel. Some ways to go yet if youre looking at europe. Up by 3 10 of a percent. Keep an eye on the euro. We are keeping an eye on the ecb and what they are going to be thinking. Yesterday it was about the ann...

It gathered pace when yellin suggested we were in a different kind of mode. Where we are with some of the individual names vodafone had the rating reduced by s p. The debt rating has been cut. Thats the third lowest. 449 for the current offer. Get ready for more. That seems to be the news. They are preparing for a new offer of 500 swiss francs. We are trading below the current did. The market current bid. The market is a little bit unconvinced to do a deal at that price. They got tenants to stay...

The Christmas Lights are beautiful. You can really smell it. Christmas is in the air. Air is also an air of panic. In every shop window, a sale sign. Marks and spencer is offering 30 off. Don the road, 50 off. More on why retailers are slashing their prices and why ubs says the clothing retailers have hit the panic button. Caroline, we will get back to you very shortly. , lets have a look at these equity markets. We are seeing higher equity markets as europe loses aaa s tatus. Does that really m...

A sixyear high on the stoxx 100. Alltime high over on the dax in germany. 9 00 supply data it out at u. K. Time. General german unemployment expected to stay at 6. 7 . Compared germany to everyone else. Lets bring you you market open on your morning. Down just a touch. That flat across most of europe with the exception of the footsie which voices pushes higher by one quarter of the present. You are looking for retail times sales a, at 11 00 take him 11 00 a. M. U. K. Time. Inflation is too low. ...

Welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to the second hour of the program. Paribas isbank bnp said to be planning a guilty plea today to end the criminal probe into u. S. Sanctions violations. Caroline, what do we expect . Good morning. As you were saying, we expect frances largest bank, bnp paribas, to plead guilty today to u. S. Criminal charges. The board of bnp paribas, according to the Financial Times, met over the weekend and approved the deal with u. S. Us with u. S. Authorities. The departm...

Any moment. We are also watching pharma stocks. Results came in for astrazeneca and novartis. Novartis pretty much unchanged. Jon, we have this megamerger from rance. The french have also been quite antitech in the past. I wonder what they make of the facebook a lot of things, they are quite conservative about mergers. Some would say they are more socialist than china. If i am looking at facebook and apple, apple is the big surprise. Revenue, noflat growth in iphone sales. No one was looking for...

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