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Pioneering spirit continues to change the world for better or worse and take this german teenager for example who started a company at the age of 72 years later he decided to try his luck in the u. S. He traveled to california Silicon Valley to find out for himself if he could make a splash with his ideas in the center of the global Tech Industry and fortunately for us he made a video diary of his experiences take a look. Man dont do this to me the flight in an hour. Business is so awesome strik...

You have the u. K. Election. On the back of the most recent polls, still can say still saying the conservatives have a Comfortable Lead over the conservatives over the labour partys. Ecb and its new president meet on thursday. This is the stock we are watching out for down 61 . The chief executive quits and they canceled the dividend. Coming up, we will discuss the report on septembers repo prices. Up at 9 30 a. M. London time. This get to bloomberg first word news. Viviana yesterday hundreds of...

Whenever you get an inversion like that, it tends to signal a recession within the next year to 18 months. This is the most in verdict it has been since 2007, which was the year the u. S. Did go into what ended up being the worst recession since the great depression. Nobody is predicting a severe outcome this time, but it is probably the loudest and clearest signal there is trouble ahead. We will talk about what relation that might have with the currency wars. In the meantime lets go to Kevin Ci...

with the latest. trey. >> reporter: molly, good afternoon. a massive explosion early this morning destroyed the only bridge between russia and crimea. the blast and subsequent fire decimating the car and train sections of this bridge. spend large pieces of concrete plunging into the water below. three died after a truck exploded adding an official investigation is underway into the owner of that vehicle. >> investigative actions being carried out at his place of residence and everythin...

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President at the white house yielding no deal. Republicans now branded the schumer shutdown. We are monitoring the minute by minute update. And republicans now demanding that the public be able to read a classified memo prepared by house intelligence that potentially details fisa surveillance abuses by the Obama Justice department and james comeys fbi and as republicans now saying they cannot believe that what they read in that memo is going on in the United States democrats call it misleading t...

Year. We have one trading they left and a lot of news to cover. Geopolitics with russia and the u. S. , but also market movements and volatility in currencies in 2016. First, lets get the first word news. Here is sebastian salek. Seb a ceasefire agreement came in effect in syria overnight after russia and turkey announced he had brokered a deal they hope will pave the way for a peace settlement ending the civil war. The move sidelines the u. S. , which had led peace efforts without success. But ...

Fallout from that not only in the oil specific market. Recent slide. It has to do with the crude Oil Inventories number. I looked at the chart. Take a look. This is the weekly change. To taken all the way back 1982. Just a few weeks after we had the biggest draw down on record this is the biggest billed by number of barrels we have seen on record. In percentage terms the week over week change of 3 is the biggest we have seen since 2008. Fairly unprecedented. It comes a time when the oil market i...

Has set all the financial rates that they are in fact going to go up. It has been a rather diverse performance among other financials. They make money both ways on the loans they have on the books and what they make on the money that they have invested in a close in securities and not spread good that its all good news to them. And then there is this notion how i miss them higher rent the Federal Reserve is hiking rates, what that says about the economy. Usually a good day. Things are picking up...