this is due to be a business on crystal kober welcome the u.s. department of justice has sued to stop these proposed eighty five billion dollars acquisition of time warner now eighty is the united states biggest telecommunications company time warner a major producer of media content allowing both companies to merge would mean a concentration of power detrimental to consumers the d.o.j. argues however with president donald trump's outspoken dislike for time warner's news channel c.n.n. some also see a political twist to the story plans by eighty n.t.v. to purchase time warner one of the leading media companies in the u.s. we're ready controversial when they were announced in two thousand and sixteen even before he became president donald trump was already critical. a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few like trump has called c.n.n. which is owned by time warner fake news this is why plans by the department of justice to sue eighteen t. to stop its acquisition of time wa

this is a business i'm crystal kober welcome. to my ancestry the general elections europe's biggest economy still doesn't have a new government but the collapse coalition talks in parlin apparently don't have investors all too worried with germany's blue chip index dax trading only slightly lower the euro hit a two month low against the japanese yen and asian trading this morning but the common currency paired these losses later on earlier on earlier i asked our markets correspondent why the political crisis in berlin doesn't have investors more concerned. well kristoff the fundamentals the economic fundamentals remain intact they haven't been really changed due to this failure of the coalition talks in berlin on the contrary the efore institute of economic research this morning announced that it will increase its forecast for german g.d.p. growth for economic growth this year to two point three percent that's four tenths of a percent higher than the previous forecast what has been reduced though here on the markets is the potent

this is a business i'm crystal kober well come with only a couple of weeks to go until christmas it is crunch time for retailers in the united states the friday after thanksgiving on black friday as it's known officially kicked off the shopping spree the philadelphia police coined the phrase black friday back in the nine hundred sixty s. when friday after thanksgiving sales created traffic jams and drew so many unruly shoppers that it darkened their workday and much of the hype has prevailed in new york city macy's started its black friday discounts early as if lot of shoppers rushed into the department store on thursday night many retailers have started their holiday season through on thursday to boost customer traffic and sales retailers in germany you may be interested to know have created their own version of black friday but it is a hard sell many customers believe it's just another trick to make a normal sale and often it is there is more that may not be tense out on the german high streets but there's definitely a black friday in the retailers even have black week at the tighten