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With sally and World Business report. Re writing history. What now for the countries in the Trans Pacific partnership as President Trump signs an Executive Order to withdraw the United States . Chips ahoy samsungs Microchip Business powers the company to a jump in profits despite galaxy note 7 disaster. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Are you hungry . If you have no food to hand well make it worse as well take you to a true indian feast. Thats injust a moment. Iam i am told there is a Business Angle but we cant start without talking about this. Yes, he is my top story again this is becoming a habit im talking about us President Trump. On day one in office he signed a slew of Executive Orders but the one grabbing all the headlines worldwide is his move to withdraw the us from the Trans Pacific partnership. Tpp as its also known is the huge trade deal negotiated under mr trumps predesessor ba rack 0bama. It was a deal between 12 nations in the pacific area and was set
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. We start with data. It is eurozone pmi figures. They are just below expectations. When you look at the euro area in january, services pmi fell to 53. 6. Economists were forecasting 53. 8. When you look at the manufacturing pmi, it rises to 55. 1. Pointrecast was that 54 eight. Anything above 50 indicates an expansion. Services a little bit below manufacturingbut better than expectations. Lets get straight to the markets to see whether there is a bit of dollareuro movement. The is my picture for markets. Watch out, as always, for the dollar. It has been erasing some of the earlier losses. Emerging stocks are gaining. This is the picture for the european stocks, putting much flat. 1. 2502. D currently a lot of weakness on the turkish lira. The msci world index overall a touch up. We will have plenty more from the markets. First, lets get to the first word news. Here is nejra cehic. Nejra donald trump has pulled the u. S. From the Transpacific
Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 9am in the morning in beijing where china has warned the United States that it wont back down over its territorial claims in the South China Sea. On monday, Donald Trumps spokesman said the United States would protect its interests in the region, a shift from president obamas more neutral position. But a Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman said china will safeguard its own rights. Our china editor Carrie Gracie reports on the growing tensions. There are three key flashpoints between the new Trump Administration and beijing trade, taiwan and the South China Sea. The last two involve the risk of Military Confrontation between a fast growing naval power and the worlds superpower. China lays claim to most of the South China Sea, of the one of the busiest commercial waterways in the world, and one where several of its neighbours have competing claims. Areas in the South China Sea that are part of International Waters and international a