Plus, another big m a deal in japan, snapping up mobile messaging startup for nearly 1 billion. Display youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello. Warm welcome to the show. We have italian gdp up 0. 1 quarter on quarter. Up 0. 1 quarter on quarter. The contraction has finished. We contracted in the third quarter. So the contraction has finished for italy. So thats fairley good. Down 0. 8 year on year. Take a look at where we are with tenyear yields. 3. 72 . Just above the 3. 66 that we hit a couple of days ago, which is the lowest since april 2006. We had bond auctions yesterday where we saw the yields continue to fall at auction, 1. 4 . 7. 02 in the 30year yesterday. 4. 59 . Well before precrisis levels for italian debt. Growth number, italy back in growth this morning. And thats after we saw better numbers, as well, out of germany and france this morning. Which was also fairley good. 0. 3 for the french economy. There had been some fea
Agreement has infuriated fiscal conservatives and democrats who wanted to include protections for emigrants. Deadly flooding and mudslides have swept to bolivia following days of heavy rains. Cars have been damaged by mud and rubble and just state of emergency has been declared across several regions. Carneval in Rio De Janeiro officially starts on friday but the parties are already well underway this year all female block parties are using the event to draw attention to cracking down on sexual harassment. Brazil has one of the worlds highest homicide rates for women. Finally a new government is on the horizon in germany the top two parties agreeing on a grand coalition if the deal goes ahead as planned the coveted finance ministry will train trams powell at all times the current look at the view from germanys top Business Leaders also coming up britains largest Retailer Tesco was hit with a big. In your own lawsuit for breaching equal pay rules is it a sign of success Management Pract
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and the threat of another conflict in the gulf has also raised the price of oil today, which has risen by more than 3% since the airstrikes against the houthi rebels that have been attacking ships. there have been warnings from the british retailer tesco among others that the battle to restrain inflation could be blown off course by these events. kathleen brooks is uk research director at xtb. what do you make of these warnings? well, we do know that goods that faded into our inflation baskets, sprinkles like clothing, furniture, that they are on both these vessels that they are on both these vessels that have had to be re routed. it really cost the shipper is a huge amount of monetary roots these vessels around africa rather than using the red sea. so we know that the goods around those vessels and