Line. We will be looking at what will come next to resolve the crisis the european markets are lets check in with manis at the touch screen we are off to the races and the nasdaq made a 14 year high yesterday. We will what other political issues there are in the world. We will get prices later on today. The Building Confidence is at a sevenmonth high and we will get the current account and some data in the United States of america. Equity markets are open. Lets go in to see what is driving the upside. It is going lower. This, lets go down into portugal. You are seeing that do a little bit better. Some big Company Names are in focus. We had results and we see it coming off. They say that they are looking for growth and have returned to profit. Withare looking at targets the vestments divestments. They come out with the merger program and they are going to. Tick with pillars they are demerging. That is going to spin the stock off. We have it. It is on the tape overnight and they are sayi
Untenable position. 40 years of onesided american diplomacy aimed at achieving regional and International Acceptance for israel, thus peversely produced the very opposite. Increasing International Isolation and a program for the jewish state. We will now cover israels back as the saying goes as the United Nations as its angoing maltreatment and intermittent muggings of its captive arab population complete its international delegitimization and ostracism. Well pay a heavy price for this, political price, globally in the middle east, and very likely an escalating terrorism against americans abroad and at home. It may satisfy our sense of honor but it more closely resembles assisted suicide than a strategy for the survival of israel and our position in the middle east. Americans like to have a moral foundation for Foreign Policy, for our policies. In the middle east, and not just with respect to israel, the geology has proven to be complex to allow such a foundation. To take our professed
False american asumps and objectives have helped create the current mess in the middle east. It is not news to anybody that american politics is uncivil and dysfunctional. We have a Foreign Policy elite that has its head up its media bubble. Prefers narratives to evidencebased analysis. Confuses sanctions and military postureing with diplomacy. And imagines that the best way to deal with hateful foreigners is to use airborn robots to kill them, their friends and their families. We have leaders who cant lead and a legislature that cant legislate. In short, we have a government that cant make relevant decisions, fund their implement akseation and lift allies to support them or see them through. Until we get our act together at home, these looking for American Leadership abroad will be disappointed. At west point, president obama accurately pointed out that our military has no fear. He then added that u. S. Military action cannot be the only or primary come meant to our leadership in ever
We have a problem. We now have something that has many of the at butze of the state that is attributes of the state that is run by extremists. I think that is the main issue. It is also the case that the shia, not withstanding mr. Malikises a operations to lead them all, are divide and they may end up being two states among the shia rather than just one if iraq indeed goes the way it seems to be going, which is toward partition, and that, by the way, i will say is not an impossible outcome in afghanistan either, after our departure. So i think we need to be a bit cautious. Final observation, what we can learn from the gulf war and the iraq war, gulf war to liberate kuwait and the war to subgeographicate iraq is something very simple. We should not intervene without a war termination strategy. How are you going to end it . It is not enough to get up on air Aircraft Carrier and proclaim mission accomplished. Wars dont end until defeat is admitted. E proposed no terms to saddam. He theref
In six years as profits rise to 1. 8 billion pounds. Lawmakers face a tough extension on greeces bailout extension. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing Business News from around the globe. Lets kick off with markets and the strong month that they have had. Really across the globe. Im kicking off with europe. Lets have a look at the dax. Germany up 5. 9 . Were approaching qe kicking off but the announcement was back in january. Quite a surprise germany has been so strong. Gdp came in the middle of the month much stronger than expected and concerns over greece as we come closer to the end of the month. Just below flat today having touched another record high earlier in todays trade but were up 5. 83 for the month as a whole. Where the headlines return is a descent return. The best data point we had this month was wage growth at 2. 1 seen as very positive for the fundamental economy. Worth baring in mind we have seen sterling strengthen by 2. 25 . Its almost as good as the dax. Now