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Europe's share markets bask in the glory of the NASDAQ reaching a 15-year high and record closes elsewhere - while Germany's IFO puts in a high of its own. David Pollard reports on a seemingly unstoppable rise in sentiment.
The Nasdaq just barely moved higher but it was enough to set a new record high, though the other key benchmark indexes lost ground. Bobbi Rebell reports.
A day after Google reported better-than-expected earnings, its shares surged to a record high, lifting the Nasdaq and other tech stocks, like Facebook and Etsy. Bobbi Rebell reports.
The Nasdaq hit a new high after a wave of strong economic data. Fitbit shares rose as much as sixty percent in their first day of trading. Bobbi Rebell reports.
The S&P 500 index closed at a record high on Friday, after a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine, and progress on a greek debt deal. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Security in Haiti, where violent gangs control large swathes of the country, has deteriorated even further, with the number of major crimes hitting "record highs," the UN representative to the impoverished nation warns. "The security situation on the ground continues to deteriorate as growing gang violence plunge(s) the lives of the people of Haiti into disarray and major crimes are rising sharply to new record highs," Maria Isabel Salvador tells the UN Security Council. SOUNDBITE