so that was the uk.lk about germany now with patricia szarvas who is standing by in frankfurt. >> we're looking fairly positive at face value. there's hardly any kind of volumes. about 18 million shares have traded. nevertheless, we have big gainers out here on the back of quarterly news, quarterly numbers here. thyssenkrupp, up about 4%. it seems that the restructuring story is what is tending to be more positive for the stock this morning. the numbers are below expectations. the guidance for 2009 was lowered. however, people think that the savings in 2010 will definitely take a positive impact on the company. also good numbers coming from hochtief. and porsche, at the moment, up a staggering 13.5% on the news we had yesterday that probably was clenching the deal was porsche. so we do know now where it's going to go and how the deal is going to get done, more or less. so this is very positive for the porsche automobile holding up more than 13% as we speak. volumes tend to be rather low. >> 50% of chatei

you mentioned the uk.whether there's likely to be in inbuilt disa-appointment if the dead doesn't say we're doing more because the bank of england did it. but the press would certainly build that up. >> yeah. for the case of the fed, i think -- like i said earlier, there are three elements. if the fed says we're stilg still thinking that inflation is not a problem, and we're still thinking there is weakness in the economy and we are going to be aggressive in announcing a new batch of treasury buy, then i think that will be sort of really overkill for this thing called the u.s. dollar and i think the dollar may come under severe pressure. but the question i have for you, anthony, is going back. there's been a lot of emphasis here on quantity. what about the element of time? which is basically how long it will take for the new batch of 50 billion to elapse. they could probably give exercise the choice to buy those over a slower period of time, over a longer period of time, that that in and of itself may be d

the uk and libya have been doing this for about a decade. but how influential a commercial considerations where it is business fit in this complex mix. libya is an exciting new destination for british business. but did that excitement influence the decision to release abdelbaset al. megrahi, the man convicted of the lockerbie bombing. scottish and british governments say, absolutely not. but al megrahi's f and new business opportunities have always been part of bilateral negotiations. 2007, colonel gadhafi's regime sought to re-enter the international community after three decades of sanctions and the then british prime minister tony blair offered a hand. they signed a number of agreements. making a prison transfer deal, a massive oil contract involving bp followed immediately. this is a so-called package deal? >> a so-called deal in the desert, two things emerged. one was a huge trunch of opportunity in the libyan oil industry for a very well-known international oil company. and the quid pro quo perhaps was the agreement that megrahi would

uk output ppi up 0.3% on the month, down 1.3% on the year. it was forecast plus 0.2% on the month, down 1.6% on the year. input ppi down 1.4% on the month, running minus 12.2% on the year. that is weaker than expected. the input was minus 0.5. the core output ppi up 5% on the month. the output ppi posted its largest drop since november 2001. rob connell, chief economist at ing joins us now. rob, your reaction to that? >> i think it's going to be a while before any of these input price figures or output price figures from ppi causes any real concern and there's a huge amount of spec in the uk economy. >> in terms of extension from the qe from the bank of england, i presume that's because their inflation expectations, they'll get to to shoot their inflation expectations. what does that mean for how we should view long-term yields? >> well, i think it's interesting the way the newspaper is reporting in this morning, which i think is wrong, which is that the bank has some kind of secret knowledge or there's a smoking gun that the uk is headed for

a suggestion that people in the uk don't care enough, elderly people. that they make these kind of brutal, ruthless judgments, death panels as sarah palin puts it. and it's not the nhs that people know and understand in the uk. >> well, there have been suggestions that these attacks in the nhs have somehow managed to bring liberals and conservatives together in great britain, is that true? >> that's absolutely true. we had one outliar, one right-wing conservative politician who i think made some comments on american television saying he would rather have health care in the u.s. and he was slapped back into line very rapidly and very aggressively by the leader of the conservative party. it's a good sense of sensitivity on the issues in the uk because under margaret thatcher back in the '80s and '90s spending was cut back quite heavily and services suffered. so the conservatives are very keen to make clear, but they would still -- they would still guard the nhs, it would be safe in their hands if they were to win the next election. >> i presume though tha

but first of all, let me tell you was going on here in the uk. now, yesterday and the day before, the trading day before that, we saw some declines for the ftse 100. we lost a fair bit of ground in that period. 3.2% we lost. today, though, the ftse 100 overall looks like this. we're seeing gains of 0.6%. off the highs of the session, but not too bad. when we've moved to the down side in the past few days, we've seen stocks taking a hit. today, commodities are gaining. rio tinto is over 3% higher. banking stocks, as well. a couple other stocks to mention, pendragon game out with their results this morning. they reported not so good numbers on the face of it, their profit halved. they also said they're pretty optimistic about the second half, as well. we could see a bit of optimism coming through from some of the companies related to the likes of pendragon today is in the car retail space. let's get out to sylvia now in frankfurt and find out what's going on on the german trade. >> well, becky, in terms of the overall headline figures, it's a simil

uk which are better than expected.ny impact you've seen from those numbers? >> yes. we've broke continue narrow trading range that we've seen this morning by another 0.5%. so we're trading around the 47, 57 level. it will be very interesting to see throughout the day whether this trend will continue and indeed will make new highs or higher highs than we have seen last week, which is around the 4794, 4800 level. it will be interesting to see whether that continues or not. >> in the mining sectors, metals and mining stocks are looking pretty strong on the uk markets. we did have results from rio tinto, as well. what have those earnings told us? are they helping the sector in general? >> they certainly are. i don't think it needed any help today, anyway, purely because of the strong asian markets and the bounce in commodity prices. they did have them a lot. rio has been reducing debt over the last 18 months or so which is very useful to see. like i said, the mining sector today is specifically does not need that and it ha

bill barnard, uk chair of democrats abroad and tom grant, chairman of the republicans abroad uk and lotar mentell, chief investment officers of octopus investments. thank you all. >>> still to come on "worldwide exchange" today, banks and bonuses. the french president says he can set an example for the world. what do you think? chloe is 9 months old. she is the greatest thing ever. woman: one little smile, one little laugh. - honey bunny. - ( coos ) we would do anything for her. my name is kim bryant and my husband and i made a will on legalzoom. man: it was really easy to do. - ( blows raspberries ) - ( laughing ) robert shapiro: we created legalzoom to help you take care of the ones you love. go to legalzoom.com today and complete your will in minutes. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. >>> ahead of the u.s. open, we'll bring you up to speed on what's happening in the equity markets right now. >> we opened lower on the london markets and we moved into positive territory. now we seem to be back on the decline again. down by about 10 points or so. 0.2%. yesterday we had another

and the uk. there is some chance we'll see earlier moves in some parts of the world, emerging economies, china is an example where that's happened. >> larry, it's courtney here in the u.s. st. louis fed president james ballard saying yesterday that they're not going to raise rates any time soon, they need to see significant improvements in the economic data to do so. however, he did say the fed needs to start thinking about this exit strategy and keep inflation in check? >> first of all, i think the inflation issue is not likely to be top on their agenda. that's not to say central bankers are complacent. but given what we know about wage foration, after hourly earnings continue to deceleration. the employment cost index is decelerating. inflation is a phenomenon that may occur, but it's still some ways off. that doesn't mean that they won't begin to exit exit strategies. i think the first move will be rather passive, allowing existing balances on their balance sheet to roll off and thereby drain

this is a mining company which is listed here in the uk. they beat expectations.earnings fell by 0.8%. that is a smaller decline than expected. amec is coming out with figures this morning. they said that they saw profit before tax down by 4% in the first half, so that has a negative impact on the share price of that company. out to silvia wadhwa now in frankfurt for more on the german strait trade. >> the market is similar. we're sandwiched between this year's highs and on the down side, give or take 50 points or so, but maybe the 4,450 or 4,400 or thereabouts. that's what the charts are saying. the market hasn't got any real dynamics, any real push, but we haven't got any real pressure to take us down, either. in the meantime, we're in stock picker's club. if you look at the gainers and losers, it tells you the whole story. you see deutsche post, rwe, volkswagen. you can broadly argue thooes they're the most defensive marks. on the downside, again, a relatively mixed bag. we don't see much of the financials on earth side of the fence. k & s, bayer, man se, so a

>>abirachad: scientists in the uk have developed a new type of speaker technology which delivers clear, crisp anddirectional sound. environmentalists will be pleased to hear these speakers have reduced power consumption and low impact production processes. for the rest of us well, they just look stylish. >>reporter: when it comes to technology, less is more. we want it smaller and more powerful; to look better and sound better. which is why scientists at warwick university in the uk have invented a revolutionary new thin and flexible speaker - which actually started out life as a sheet of tin foil and some baking paper. >>billson: this is essentially what we call an electro static speaker. and that means it works by converting electrical voltage to sound. a conventional loudspeaker, one of these, converts electrical current to sound. now this as you can see is relatively small which means that sound goes off in all directions. because this is a relatively large area, and all the sound resonates at the same phase & frequency, this means it's a lot more directional than conventional spea

some in the uk decided to opt out of the system and pay for private medical coverage. it is available. but anyone taking on private medical care has to opt out. a telling point is, in the last decade, they're offering it as a recruitment perk for their employees. >> one of the things that's become critical clear here that we've reported on denmark, canada and the uk, this is not a simple issue. and it really puts into stark contrast this idea of rushing through legislation, when all of these other programs, we're only coming to terms with a broad understanding of what universal care and national health care really entail. >> yeah, even the countries that have it are still trying to adjust it to meet the needs of the people that they're trying to cover. so it really needs a lot of adjustment. a lot of tinkering and we should not be rushing through. >> this is fascinating. excellent reporting. thank you, kitty. >> kitty pilgrim. we're going to be looking next at france and its health care system. >>> we'll continue our special reporting, as i said, we'll examine the qual

these are very experienced people and i've been in the uk last week.i've had a good discussion with richard and i'm pretty confident that richard understands the need, what we need to do to reposition our business a bit more aggressive in order to get more share in the marketplace. we improved on margins in q2. i'm not suggesting it's rosy, but in the uk, this business is more difficult and we will have to do more aggressive cost cutting in order to improve our performance. >> rene, this is andy hartwill sitting in the studio with louisa. i'm very encouraged to herd your outlook and guidance. i was wondering what your feeling is for rpu and when or where you see the opportunity for rpu for growth? >> there is an opportunity to grow the data side of it. in the u.s., we had more than 40% year year growth in mobile data. also in europe, strong growth. so that side of it is the positive side. on the other side, there is heavy competition and also on the other side, additional regulatory impact, which is not needed for this industry whatsoever, given the hi

. >> his hero's return for the man convicted of the uk's worst terrorist atrocity praise on the minds of many. this brings up questions of the libyan sensitivity, but it appears colonel gaddafi was not listening. what does he understand how much the decision has angered the majority in scotland -- >> does he understand how much the decision has anchor the majority in scotland? does he seem to be aware of the issues in releasing a convicted bomber? >> questions were also raised about the role of the british government in the release. gordon brown met gaddafi last month, in so far he has not commented on the controversy. >> this is an extraordinary silence on the part of the prime minister, gordon brown. this decision has significant implications for foreign policy and trade. what joint efforts are now being undertaken by gordon brown to limit the damage? >> mr. macaskill repeated that he had fallen due process. he suggested that -- he said that suggestions that al-megrahi could have spent his final days in hospital work the crest. bbc news. >> at least 20 people have been killed in bom

we're supposed to have a relationship with the uk. the u.s. is supposed to have some influence in the world. i'm worried that the obama administration has spent all of its resources trying to force tegucigalpa to take men while celaya back and forgot about this for the world. >> paul: a former president of honduras. >> that's their big issue. the amount you have something like this developing and we're not even there? see when a writer who contributes for us thanks to that he wanted to make a statement welcoming back the grotty despite being warned by john mccain and in the british because the 40th anniversary of the libyan revolution is coming up september 1 and he wanted a big domestic show what he could achieve on the world stage to make the british were prepared to send prince andrew one of the royals to celebrate. what are they going to celebrate? the domestic butchery and libya are the terrorism overseas? or that he is a master of rubbing the westin nose in it. >> paul: we did this deal with libya in 2003. he gave -- that he give up his

those are the accusations of uk complicity and torture that are swirling about.he committee of mps and lords are set out to answer three questions. is complicity and torture illegal? having defined complicity, they decide it is. do those things the government rá" amount to such complicity? again, the committee decides they do so are the accusations true? on this, the committee was stumped. and that's the committee's beef. that the government has obstructed their inquiries leaving it unable to tell whether the accusations have credibility. this report doesn't pull its punches. accountability of a security and intelligent services, it says, is woefully deficient. ministers, too, have been determined to avoid parliamentary scrutiny. the report says behind a wall of secrecy. >> if they haven't done anything wrong and there's no evidence that they have or all we have is allegations at the moment. no way to -- i think the problem is the blanket denial. it's not the fire brigade that is going to deal with the smoke. that is emerging from what appears to be a growing bon

have been overpaid that have bought scrutiny to financial services >>reporter: late last year the uk'srvices authority got involved for this very reason ûwriting a letter to ceos at investment banks highlighting their fears >>there is widespread concern that inappropriate remuneration schemesàin the areas of investment banking and trading have contributed to the present market crisis. >>reporter: once frosty to reform -- institutions are now scrambling to revamp pay structures. >>ispahani: the fsa's dear ceo letter was their opening salvo to financial services about get your house in order. and what we are seeing already from a number of houses is that they have. >>reporter: ubs and morgan stanley are taking the lead û with claw backs on bonuses if deals turn sour û they also deferred payments so that bankers think more in the long-term. >>benson: there is clearly a huge amount of political pressure on both sides of the atlantic. to make changes to the bonus culture but let's not forget that this is performance related pay so people who perform well do need to get rewarded well. >>repo

the uk and the u.s. would recover quicker. but when you consider the huge amount of debt that have been built, i don't think that's the case. how that got to unravel and be de-lev raenled over a period of time, that requires a lot of support from the government to avoid a much deeper recession than already the uk and the u.s. has had. so it's been a different picture there. that means that there's still more, in our view, more deleveraging to take place in the household and private sector and that makes it much more difficult for the uk and the u.s. to recover. that's not been the problem so much for the euro zone or for asia. they just need a recovery to some extent in global economic demand. and they're beginning to get that and that's shown in the results. but of course, the ultimate buyer of all german goods, japanese goods, asian goods, still remains on the whole the household sector in places like the uk and the u.s. and if they continue to be weak, don't expect a quick recovery for the euro zone, either. >> all right, b

what happens next, do you think, for the uk currency?hink really we tend to argue and get away with it. so i think they've sort of pulled the rug out of yesterday's sterling buyers. our overall view is that sterling is undervalued on a long-term basis. so we'll be looking for levels down to be buying. you know, euro/sterling, anything over 1.75 is a little bit too high. so yeah, i think this will be an opportunity. i think the market is short. i think euro/sterling will bounce a bit more. anything above 86 is longer term. >> paul, based on last week's cpi and ppi numbers, it didn't seem like inflation would come on any time soon. do you think any waste inflation could be on the table at that fed retreat? >> i wouldn't have thought so. i think everyone is getting carried away from the gdp numbers recently. it's not one, it's probably not two. i think we'll have to be patient, sit back and see how things go. i think really, we've just got to get the economy going up more, get the green shoots higher. so no, i don't think inflation really i

spain, up 45%, even in the uk. it seems to be that everyone has taken the opportunity basically of getting rid of any old banger -- >> here is the question, richard. a lot of people have been asking me, that's fantastic, we have the best year -- ford had the best month because of cash for clunkers. what does this mean six months from now or a year from now? how is this type of program sustainable? >> well, it's not. obviously it's not. but then we're in pretty desperate straits when they're introduced. you don't think governments came along and decided to give away free cash for new cars because they loved us, do we? i heard this argument, as you have ali, many times, that it is just deferring, you know, bringing forward sales from later in the year. guess what, so what? at least it means that disaster and ruin haven't happened now. and worry about next year later. >> let's talk about disaster and ruin. we in the united states need the rest of the world to start doing a little bit better to help us out of this rece

you geniuses do know that stephen hawking is from the uk, right? he's actually been treated by the british national health service, right? with its services, he's lived through about 45 years of als, right? the goofballs at investor's business daily were confused by the fact his voice synthesizer did not have a british accent. >>> "dateline" new york. red jarrett of cluster fox about the speaker of the house. pelosi sort of suggested that any american citizen who dare voice an objection in protest is say nazi, apparently based on what use lated incident. but now she stepped it up and she's labeling protesters un-american. isn't that destructive rather than constructive. oh, my god is he dim. pelosi never called anybody a nazi. she noted correctly that people had showed up at several town halls carrying swastikas and symbols like that, like the one today. and she never called protesters un-american. she wrote that drowning people out at town halls was un-american. people who were for reform or against it. >>> and "dateline" pine ville, louisiana. se

much of scotland's legal system is separate from the uk. but britain is walking a fine line without joining the outrage. he is the only christian convicted of the bombing of flight 103 over lockerby scotland that killed 270 people. tony blair is denying that lucrative oil deal between libya and the uk played a role in the relief. robert moeller who took part in the prosecution for the u.s. moeller said the release making a mockery of the law and gives comfort to terrorists worldwide. >>> you're looking at pictures of a deadly plane crash that happened in ohio last night. the small plane you're looking at barely missed a plane that crashed into a field. both people on board were killed. the ohio state highway patrol says the plane crashed within minutes of taking off from an airport in southwestern ohio. >>> federal drug agents searched a beverly hills farmly yesterday in connection with michael jackson's death. the dea says the pharmacy was expected to receive pharmacy records. in an interview with cnn last month, kline denied that he had g

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the pitcher plungs uk list. uk list throwing him to the ground. take another look at it. port-au-prince sell owe misses the helmet and whips him to the ground here. both of those guys get suspended for five games apiece. and it is something like you said earlier, can you never see too many times. it is one of those train wrecks on tv. what's is going on here? >> hd to believe. six months away from opening ceremonies for the 2010 windsor olympics in vancouver. we are going to show you how the city of vancouver is getting ready. >>> bob has the final checo >>> believe it or not, will are only six months to go until the winter olympics, vancouver getting ready to host the biggest party ever. winter olympics begin in february. leanne gregg reports on how the preparations are goi. >> one of the most beautiful cities in the world. >> such a variety of things to do. >> reporter: for the past six years, vancouver has been preparing to host the winter olympic games. the venues are finished. including the city's crowned jewel, the richmond oval. it has been tested by some americans

now let's look at the uk. even though the yields aren't the same, the patterns are remarkably the same. look at the euro zone. completely different pattern. yes, their yield's lower and has currency ramifications. >> what's the reason? i've asked people on the floor. two reasons reasons came out. one was maybe they expect it the u.s. and uk to come out of the funk first. you won't have gotten that from the bank of england's statement last time. maybe it's the quantitative easing and the government's involvement is something that doesn't have the consequence of keeping rates lower than thild otherwise be. michelle, back to you. >> thank you, rick. let's dig deep near what rick was talking about, the two-day fed meeting. economics reporter steve liesman joins us now with more on what wall street is expecting and hoping to hear tomorrow. >> expectations are pretty low for a significant shift in fed policy that comes from tomorrow's statement. but with so much on the line with all that which can was talking about,

showed it, until this final cut, all the guys, i mean, these are, for the schools from all over the uk, saying, we need to see the reality. we need a little more. >> there you go. >> so it's needed for young people. but the reality is, i had the misfortune when i was researching this, i had the misfortune of looking at real accident scene photos, and the reality is much more disturbing, and the reality is that actually given the nature of the physics of that accident, the chances are, that the faces and bits of bodies would be missing. so, we are kind of holding back, but we found that line. >> young and old. adults need to know that, too. peter, it's a split second, 60, 65 miles an hour, blooming at the blackberry, that's all i can take, the difference between life and death. >> absolutely. >> let me get robert back in from aaa. robert, will this change a teen's behavior? >> it's hard to say. i think it has to be part of a multi-pronged approach. this message, along with the message that we give to your young people. there's nothing more dangerous that the average human being can do t

health care system into one like the uk or one like canada. think lawmakers have been very clear in saying we're not trying to do exactly what other countries are doing. we want to take your ideas and concerns and figure out how this can work best for americans. >> we are already in the stimulus bill. we have a thorough coordinating council, similar to what they started in the uk. 10, 11 years later, puts a value on your life. that's scary to people. that's already passed. health care i.t. has passed. they're going to know your medical records. that's pretty scary to people. >> you read some things need change in health care. >> absolutely. the first thing we did, we have four pillars. one, choice. you want to have the right to choose your doctor and choose your insurance plan. two, competition. know what things cost and insurance companies are to sell across state lines. more competition. >> we're getting short on time, i need to come back to these tactics. you keep coming out and saying you don't get the yelling either. do you support the or

we're supposed to have a relationship with the uk. the u.s. is supposed to have some influence in the world. i'm worried that the obama administration has spent all of its resources trying to force tegucigalpa to take men while celaya back and forgot about this for the world. >> paul: a former president of honduras. >> that's their big issue. the amount you have something like this developing and we're not even there? see when a writer who contributes for us thanks to that he wanted to make a statement welcoming back the grotty despite being warned by john mccain and in the british because the 40th anniversary of the libyan revolution is coming up september 1 and he wanted a big domestic show what he could achieve on the world stage to make the british were prepared to send prince andrew one of the royals to celebrate. what are they going to celebrate? the domestic butchery and libya are the terrorism overseas? or that he is a master of rubbing the westin nose in it. >> paul: we did this deal with libya in 2003. he gave -- that he give up his

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as these debt levels keep rising, the uk, $1.3 trillion, 47.2%. the uu.s., about $9 trillion, 60%. canada's debt, ought most $1 trillion, 62%. germany, 63% of its economy. france, a $2 trillion debt, a whopping 67% of its economy. we continue our comparisons of health care systems around the world. tomorrow we examine the system in japan where japan has the highest life expectancy of any nation on the globe. more than 82.5 years, the longevity of the average japanese citizen. >>> up next, a town hall meeting in iowa. >> it is tyranny, enabling, all-powering, all reaching government a power of life and death that was once understood to be reserved for god alone. >> we'll tell you why many people are scared of the president's health care initiatives. and some good news on this economy and why many economists are finally agreeing with me. we'll be right back. >>> we're committed here to bringing you the good news on the economy that much of the national media seems to be ignoring. when everyone else was saying the economy was collapsing, i would like to remind you i said there would b

they are under a lot of pressure from the u.s., germany, and uk about the tax havens and revealing the names and how much money the nationals have. they have signed an agreement with the british government and britain now has five years to reveal how much money they go. >> thank you. this is world news today. coming up, aung san su ki is found guilty of violating her house arrest. we will speak to an exiled member about the situation in burma of. -- burma. can 500 teenagers from around the world come up with a plan to tackle global warming? that is the topic in this year's third round of climate talks, students from many countries are developing their own ideas from a camp in denmark. >> did you are a fan of green energy, welcome -- >> if you are a fan of green energy, welcome to paradise. you can use the elements to create your own power or give you a helping hand. these teenagers are hoping to come up with their own ideas. >> we would like to make the world more green. >> we love the country. we do not have much greenery there. in denmark, i think there is a lot. >> the camp is suppo

in the uk, see, stephen hawking wouldn't have a chance. the british health care system in which everyone is guaranteed care, that would totally have destroyed him. stephen hawking is british. stephen hawking is from britain. that is where the british national health service is. professor hawking, himself, responded to this tremendous avalanche today by telling "the guardian" newspaper, quote, i wouldn't be here today if it were not for the nhs. i have received a large amount of high quality treatment without which i would not have survived. if you want to follow more reactions from real british people to the american right wing trying to make out the british national health service as if it is the effigy of evil and hated by the people who benefit from it, you can follow the ridiculous discussion on twitter by searching for the hash tag, we love the nhs. not kidding. try it. very amusing. next up on the bizarre health debate circuit the republican senator attended a town hall event in his ohio district yesterday and there he very responsib