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we re going to get back to john in a moment. clearly we had an audio issue there. john reporting on this upcoming meeting on the heels of the discussion last night. which by all accounts seems to indicate or suggest that perhaps we could see the government open as early as next tuesday as the what i m hearing. the offer from the house republicans is to to have a temporary debt ceiling extension of about six weeks. then they have to decide if they re going to open the government again at that time. john harwood, are you back with us now? i m with you. can you hear me? yes. now we can hear you. have at it. bill, the deal on the table from republicans, it will be discussed at 4:30 when republicans meet with the president at the white house. is that they re willing to excuse me. to raise the debt limit for about six weeks. to mid-november. the president is going to ask insist that they reopen the government as well. now, there s some interesting back and f ....
current conditions, 111.6. expectations have come in at 107.4. so we ve kind of met the expectations as far as the headline business expectation is concerned. euro/dollar, not a huge reaction on that. and we re still pretty much with this 137 handle, as well. 64, remember, the high for the year is 138.30 is where we stand. still another bit of data that s suggests all is okay as far as germany is concerned. leeann banbrex joins us now. jan, nice to see you. we have a dichotomy in europe particularly between the german and the french economy. euro/dollar doesn t seem to care an awful lot. at the moment, not. they re waiting for that big truck, the big elephant in the room, really. if you look at the german ifo index coming out. the uaw index is better. but this is really what the real economy is doing and the back stop that the german economy is in reasonably good back step. bear in mind retail pmi in germany has been good for half a year now. if you look at capacity u ....
3% here. overnight in asia, the nikkei hit and held 16,000 for the first time in six years and then hong kong and europe are closed. happy boxing day, by the way. our road map begins with the markets. today looks to be yet another record day for stocks. all the major indices set to open in positive territory. plus, call it a shipping nightmare. thousands of packages were missing on christmas morning after ups and fedex reported extraordinary delays because of hive demand at the last minute. and what does history tell us about market strategy for 2014? your play book ahead in just a few minutes. first up, though, stocks poised to open higher after coming off of record closings on tuesday. a gain today would be its sixth straight, something it has not done since a ten-day winning streak in march. of all days on the calendar, the s&p is likely to be up today, 79% of the time since 1945. this is the start of the official santa claus rally, isn t it? on average a gai ....
mobile s messaging firm whatsapp. it s facebook s biggest deal to date as shares stay lower in frankfurt. announcer: you re watching worldwide exchange, bringing you business news from around the globe. you re looking at a live shot that we re bringing to you from kiev, the capital of ukraine. we have breaking news for you, dow jones reporting that the eu foreign ministers have canceled their meeting with the ukraine leader. that is according to one official. they had set up that meeting yesterday after we saw those very violent clashes, the death toll according to the health ministry now above 28. all right. let s take a look at european markets. we re a little more than an hour into the trading day and we are seeing a lot of red across the board. the stoxx europe 600 steady, down by 0.8%. it is a triple whammy for the markets. we had the fed memberships in support of more tapering. some members talking about an earlier than expected tightening. then we have the ....
they must first of all do their own homework and then country is can claim solidarity with others. rbs is looking for a turn around next week. it could take stock levels to their lowest in a decade. and we are joined by a man would says the eu must pass a trade deal with the u.s. the eu s trade commissioner joins us in an hour. announcer: you re watching worldwide exchange, bringing you business news from around the globe. welcome, everybody. yes, you are all watching worldwide exchange. glad you re with us today. our top story, the ukrainian president is saying that a political agreement is in place to solve the country s upheaval. this after two days of continued violence, which has resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75 people. after all night talks, an agreement is scheduled to be signed with pro european opposition leaders in around an hour s time. let s cross out to nbc s jim maceda in moscow for the latest. jim, what do you make of the potential of ....