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Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. A key region in afghanistan could be on the verge of falling to the taliban. The Deputy Governor of helmand province, an area that u. S. Troops once fought to secure, says urgent action is needed to prevent its collapse. The official posted an unusual public plea to afghan president ashraf ghani on facebook...

The countrys finance minister backs on demands that they write off the debt. Instead proposing a swap. They send the aussie dollar to a six year low. The Indian Central Bank keeping its powder dry. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello everybody. Good morning. Welcome to a full two hours of Worldwide Exchange. Good to be back on the show. Great to have you. Great to be back. Lots going on today. Bp shares are already trading higher this morning despite a Fourth Quarter loss on deplacement cost basis. It will reduce cap exspending this year. I...

Actual companies that are impacting their open own stocks with takeovers and breakups. Im hoping next week that it might produce some more logical action. But before we get to the schedule you need know there are three prisms. Three prisms thousand which well be viewing each quarter. First, if the company has an international aspect, we have to look at the strong dollar decimation where they get walloped from weak currencies and whats known as constant currency. Where we figure out what a company would have earned if the dollar is unchanged. Im concerned about the dollar conundrum because most...

Winners and losers. Sue is at the nyse as usual. Good to see you. Stoxx coming off of their lows on news of a meeting of key congressional leaders on both sides. Right now we are marginally positive by 4. 5 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average. The nasdaq continues to decline. It was the biggest percentage loser yesterday and its on pace for that same kind of record today. The s p is down. 2 of a percent. Amman javers has the latest on this marketmoving event. This is a possibly hopeful situation here on capitol hill. That has not seen a lot of hopeful situations in recent days. The news...

Not this month. Home Builder Sentiment plunges as the unofficial start to the spring selling season gets under way. Is it a bad time for the Housing Market . We have all that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, february 18th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. Two big stories leading our broadcast tonight. One, disappointing earnings from cocacola after sales in north america lost some of their fizz last quarter. That sent the stock sharply lower. More on the troubles at coke in just a moment. The other big story tonight, a megamerger in pharmaceuticals. Irelandbased gen...