Investment committee is ready to go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday, the first trading day of 2020. Our Investment Committee here today. Lets begin with the markets its the first day another record setting day for the major averages there you go right now dow off its best levels, not by much new record high, 28720 nasdaq back above 9000 s p 500 positive as well the russell is a drag. But for the most part, its the same story semis hitting fresh new highs. Apple extending its record high. The beat goes on. What im particularly excited about are the International Charts i know a lot of american investors say what do i have to Pay Attention to that for . Its note worjnoteworthy were g with countries in europe up around 1 , looking better than our markets. Germany is up over 1 . European banks this morning as a group are up 2 . European Technology Names as a group are up 2 . This is noteworthy emerging markets is up double what the s p is
Hello. This is bbc news with martine croxall. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines. Labours leaders apologise for the partys crushing defeat in last weeks general election Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow chancellor take the blame. Its on me, lets take it on the chin, i own this disaster so i apologise, i apologise to all those wonderful labour mps who have lost their seats who have worked so hard. Nicola sturgeon renews her call for a second referendum on scottish independence, saying the people of scotland mustnt be kept in the union against their will. The Climate Change talks in madrid end with a compromise agreement to toughen up carbon cutting pledges before the next conference. A british man has been killed and his step son wounded, after being shot during a suspected robbery in buenos aires. England cricketeer ben stokes wins bbcs Sports Personality of the year. Jack black is back injumanji and the next level. See what mark kermode make
There is still a lot more work to be done. She says he will be providing updates every day as ballots are being counted. San franciscos Election Department still has 70,000 ballots to count before voters will know who their next District Attorney will be. Wednesday afternoon, a day after the election, bantering District Attorney turned 50 building on a slim lead she had tuesday night over public defender chesa boudin. 2205 votes separate them. We brought in the votes from the ballots we received in the mail yesterday. Then at this point does have the most votes. Reporter the department of elections director says boudin has the first first choice about, but Kamala Harris said i am hopeful that results in the following days will continue to back our vision for making San Francisco the safest city in the country. Is Election Night party he predicted the win. He tells me he is confident when all the votes are counted he will win. We are humbled the most san franciscans put us as their firs
Streaming service. Lets look at futures this morning. Some Economic Data better than expected today thats the picture on fed day. Dow opens higher by 34 s p by 2. 5 nasdaq by 17 road map this morning starts with right there, the futures, pointing to higher open after that stronger than forecast Economic Data. Investors staying cautious ahead of the fed record highs within striking distance again plus, shares of General Electric popping after an earnings beat the company raising its 2019 cash flow forecast and streaming wars at t set to challenge netflix, apple and disney, unveiling details for its upcoming hcupcome upcoming hbo max Service David talks with warner media Ceo John Stankey and thats coming up in the next hour as we said, looking forward to that big interview the markets, the fed, fed day. The data was better than expected this morning. Still confirms were slowing, so the fed will be cutting, right the fed raised too much it is just a fact. Jay powell overdid it. The econom
A sign of the format in germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz and political scientist lawrence murphy. The elected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. The resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click key words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 east german families. The footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just People Living their lives despite the dictatorship. And with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasnt all bad is that part of what this project is trying to show. Its no i would say that we have and this project has not. Anoth