with robust corporate earnings and booming global trade indices a soaring to record highs in tokyo london new york and frankfurt. german broadcasters are spellbound and this course is the reason why it just keeps going up and up the dax broke through the twelve thousand mark back in march and galloped past thirteen thousand points two weeks ago the atmosphere down on the trading floor is calm the recipe for success is suddenly simple buy stocks lean back and watch them rise and the expectation seems to be that things won't change anytime soon or when they shine the still true things already seem to be on track next year even in europe and asia crises are behind in the u.s. growth is continuing whether because of trump or despite him it doesn't matter which is a perfect pass into the penalty box for germany's export economy. looks like a home game for germany the world economy is expected to grow stronger than expected next year by three point seven percent according to the i.m.f. more than almost any other nation on earth germany's export economy is geared to profit from situations like these anot

with robust corporate earnings booming global trade indices are soaring to record highs in tokyo london new york and frankfurt. german broadcasters are spellbound and this course is the reason why it just keeps going up and up the dax broke through the twelve thousand mark back in march and galloped past thirteen thousand points two weeks ago the atmosphere down on the trading floor is calm the recipe for success is suddenly simple buy stocks lean back and watch them rise and the expectation seems to be that things won't change anytime soon when makes the shyness or things already seem to be on track next year even in europe and asia there crises are behind them in the u.s. growth is continuing whether because of trump or despite them doesn't matter which is a perfect pass into the penalty box for germany's export economy good story. looks like a home game for germany the world economy is expected to grow stronger than expected next year by three point seven percent according to the i.m.f. more than almost any other nation on earth germany's export economy is geared to profit from situations lik

with rate hikes scaling back monetary accommodation global trade is booming as well in tokyo frankfurt london and new york indices are soaring to record. now facebook google and twitter and the spotlight of u.s. lawmakers that being questions about their political ads the companies have begun two days of hearings before legislative committees the question is has russia used the companies to sway american voters in last year's presidential elections and so discord afterwards facebook admitted that hundreds of millions of people may have been influenced by politically divisive posts from fake accounts that originated in russia. thousands and thousands of ads in comments on social networking sites during the presidential election in the u.s. favored u.s. president donald trump over his opponent hillary clinton up to one hundred twenty six million americans were served the messages originating from the russian troll farm the internet research agency u.s. lawmakers in washington are now trying to figure out how it could have happened the u.s. judiciary subcommittee grilled three social media representatives fr

economy with rate hikes scaling back monetary accommodation global trade is booming tokyo frankfurt london and new york indices story two record high. well that all sounds like good news but is it a sustained rally backed by real world data or is it dangerous bubble forming the questions i want to discuss with only vance our financial correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange and michael hewson chief market analyst at c.m.c. markets and joins us from the city of london let's start with you ali in frankfurt what does it look like where you are german investors must be celebrated. those that have shares that have equities but the majority doesn't study by the door chocks an institute an advocacy group for the companies that issue shares says that only nine million people in germany own shares directly or indirectly that's a percentage of about fourteen percent and when you look at the blue chips here and the dax the majority of them don't have a german majority but a foreign ownership majority that's not bad in itself of course people people are free to buy whatever shares they want and german compan

hikes scaling back monetary accommodation global trade is booming at the same time in tokyo frankfurt london and new york indices are soaring . us. so let's dive straight into the action and cross over to early parts at the frankfurt stock exchange right in the center of the storm really what does it look like where you are the german investors celebrating. i think those that have equities those that have stocks shares they'll be celebrating because they're looking at handsome gains since the beginning of the year and handsome gains since two thousand and nine basically since then the market has been on an upward swing but you know they're very few germans who actually have shares directly or indirectly and their number has declined since two thousand and one in a major way at the moment the oxen institute it's an advocacy group for the companies that issue shares the big companies here for example in the dax it says that only about nine million germans are invested directly or indirectly in shares it's about fourteen percent of the population and that's much less than in other comparable major industria

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in this increasingly one world where you can buy the same stuff in new york and london and tokyo, thatguished travel, and aspect of society, peculiar about society through some lens and this was an opportunity to get was peculiar about iceland and greece and ireland and germany through the lens of the money. there are stories about countries experiencing the financial crisis, the material was unbelievable. iceland, i could go on about this, but population, 300,000 people, generally all were related, 300,000 people. the chief source of wealth was fishing. cheap energy, thermal energy, geothermal energy and for complicated reason, aluminum in iceland but fishing was the big thing. this story happened over and over. a fisherman goes to his wife, i can trade foreign exchange at the new bank instead of fishing and you make twice as much money and it is not cold or miserable and we are good at training, the wife says are you sure about that? why would you know anything about that? everyone is getting rich, we are not going to fish, i am sorry, i interviewed this, this is an exaggeration and

in this increasingly one world, culture, where you can buy the same stuff in new york as you income london and tokyo for distinctive travel and get at aspects of the society that are peculiar about the society through some lens. and this was getting what is macular about iceland and greece and ireland and germany, through the lens of money. so story offered countries' experiences in financial crisis and the material was unbelievable. iceland. i hate to go on too much because she is going to ask a question. the population, 150,000, 300,000 people, generally the men were the bread winner, all related. and the men -- the chief source of wealth was fishing. that's what they did. this fished. also had cheap energy but the energy was -- it was thermal energy. geothermal energy. so for complicated reasons they smelted aluminum in iceland, but the fishing was the big thing. the men were fishermen, and this story happened over and over. fishermen goes to with wife and says, bjorn says i can change foreign exchange at the new bank instead of fish and you make twice as much money and dent get wet, it's not col