there was a buy recommendation for lufthansa. boosting the dax this monday. >> iberia's work force is heading into difficult times, but german rivals lufthansa and air berlin are under pressure to increase profits because they're expecting a higher this year. the german market also takes a step forward, but u.s. markets are closed because of a holiday. draghi and others in focus of the economy recovering. the german recovery in a modest pace. >> the dax finished up by nearly .5%. eurostoxx 50 up just a bit. the euro trading slightly higher, $1.3350. venezuelan president hugo chavez has made a surprising return of from cuba where he had another surgery for cancer and treatment. but she had not been seen since undergoing a fourth operation last december. his supporters turned out in numbers to welcome him back home. >> celebration on the streets of caracas. they're coming out to show their joy of the president's return. >> welcome back to venezuela. >> we love you. there is an entire population and that will support new always. >>

there was a buy recommendation for lufthansa. boosting the dax this monday. >> iberia's work force is heading into difficult times, but german rivals lufthansa and air berlin are under pressure to increase profits because they're expecting a higher this year. the german market also takes a step forward, but u.s. markets are closed because of a holiday. draghi and others in focus of the economy recovering. the german recovery in a modest pace. >> the dax finished up by nearly .5%. eurostoxx 50 up just a bit. the euro trading slightly higher, $1.3350. venezuelan president hugo chavez has made a surprising return of from cuba where he had another surgery for cancer and treatment. but she had not been seen since undergoing a fourth operation last december. his supporters turned out in numbers to welcome him back home. >> celebration on the streets of caracas. they're coming out to show their joy of the president's return. >> welcome back to venezuela. >> we love you. there is an entire population and that will support new always. >>

. >> shares in german airline lufthansa plunged by more than 6% wednesday after the company announced it will not pay a dividend this year. the airline says operating profits fell by 1/3 in 2012 and just over 520 million euros, largely due to restructuring costs. the company has struggled to cope with falling passenger numbers. they say they did that a healthy profit of 990 million euros last year, but that was largely due to one-off asset sales. on to wednesday's market action now, and european shares retreated from their three-week highs on wednesday. our correspondents and as the summary of the midweek trading session from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> traders are very aware of the problems citizens of the debt- ridden countries are facing. the question is if the government's stick to theprefore the situation is worsening. this is the biggest question with regard to italy. traders fear berlusconi may come back and spend the entire recovery process. shares have been a burden. shareholders have been disappointed by the decision to huge profit. >> we said in frankfurt for a closer

in 1978, the legendary lufthansa heist at jfk airport. >> several million dollars in cash and jewelry taken from a cargo hangar by a band of armed men wearing masks. >> reporter: made famous in the movie "goodfellas." >> and these are the guys that jimmy put together for what turned out to be the biggest heist in american history. >> reporter: just last year at a london mall was hit by jewel thieves on motorcycles. police in belgium will now be looking for clues in their own security camera video. but experts warn the diamonds may have already vanished into the black market. keir simmons, nbc news, london. >>> we're back in a moment with a software glitch in outer space and what the president's weekend golf partner said about his game. there's this island -- and it's got super-cute kangaroos. barrow island has got rare kangaroos. ♪ chevron has been developing energy here for decades. we need to protect their environment. we have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. forty years on, it's still a class-a nature reserve. it's our job to look after them.

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. >> there are some people who said that you had some connection maybe to that lufthansa heist in 1988that? >> no, no comment only the fact that i was reportedly supposed to be with the lucasey family and that's the only coincidence in that situation. >> in that particular case and as you point out there are some similarities, it was cracked because of a van that was supposed to be disposed of was never disposed of. they went inside the van and could find fingerprints. is there anything in this case in brussels that would make you say this could help them crack this crime? >> the fact they dressed as policemen, knew how they were going to do this, i'm sure they rehearsed it several times, they knew where they were going when they cut the hole in the fence and targeted where they were looking for and got it and gone within five or six minutes so they knew what they were doing. >> i heard it was three minutes starred to finish. >> yes. >> since you've been in the game a bit, what kind of practice runs do you do to make sure -- that's coordination, right? that's some kind of choreography

lufthansa cutting its dividend in order to preserve cash. look at the result.ator. we thought they might attempt to rejig management but they're just sitting on their losses saying i'll commit to the capital raising. stock down over 10%. we're keeping an eye on the political jockeying. in athens today, thousands of people marched on parliament again as part of a general strike. the main labor union there is warning that a social explosion is very close. i don't know if that's true or not but we watch because it's important for austerity and holding together the european markets. and in madrid, tight security outside parliament today where the prime minister was talking to the need to avoid austerity, saying actually our gdp, our deficit to gdp ratio last year was below 7%, we may attempt to cap the regions. and angela merkel in germany attempting to talk away the possibility that there might be some action on the euro. she suggested that the normal rates for the euro since its creation is $1.30 to $1.40. this is $1.30 to $1.40. forgive me turning my back on you

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