Youre watching daybreak asia coming to you live from new york, sydney and hong kong. Counted up to the major market opens. The top stories this hour, asia set for a risk offer, from the july minutes touching intraday highs not seen since october and the end at its lowest level this year. The Central Bank Policy makers are still seeing significant upside risks to inflation, which could require further Interest Rate hikes, and reports of rare protests in beijing as one of chinas biggest shadow banks skips payments on Retail Investment products. Lets switch look at u. S. Futures, stocks to get on the chin today after the minutes from the feds july meeting shows that the vast majority are resigned to at least considering the possibility that more rate hikes will be needed. Some mixed close, but seven at seven lead to the downdraft with some big tech names like amazon and tesla. You could see again, right on the screen, still there, but i would call this unchanged. Markets, the whole world
Secretary Steve Mnuchin arrives for another round of talks in italy. I understand theres an ambitious Tax Reform Program in the United States, were watching closely on what is good for the United States and what would be learned by other countries about tax reform. Donald trump calls fired fbi director james comey a grandstanding showboat as he tells nbc exclusively his rational for sacking him earlier this week. You said i accepted their recommendations. You had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless. Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Glad youre with us once again. We have another packed show for you. Lets kick things off with our top story. Vivendi announced plans to buy a 60 stake in Advertising Group halves have ff s ha havas for 2. 4 billion euros. The step marks another milestone in vivendi chairman Vincent Bollores plans to build another media powerhouse. Shares of vivendi are up 5. 71 . Karen has been following the story all morning long. I wonder what the
It is seven in singapore and midnight in london and a huge cyber attack is continuing to spread Around The World. It is freezing Computer Systems and demanding that a ransom is paid. It began in ukraine and has a ready hit Global Companies including wpp, the british advertising agency, and merck, the american pharmaceutical company. The first signs came in ukraine. Systems went down this morning. Some people tried to take money out of bank machines, found they couldnt. Even the radiation Monitoring System at the Chernobyl Nuclear plant was briefly taken offline. The scale was enormous. We had the virus spread, cyber virus on the transport, bank, media, infrastructure of ukraine, in government and in the co operative sectors as well. But during the day, it became clear that the problem was not contained in ukraine but was spreading. Reports came in of companies affected from russia across europe to the uk and also the us. Those affected included oil producers, shipping and pharmaceutica
Welcome to bbc news. A large scale cyber attack that started in ukraine is continuing to spread across the world tonight. The virus freezes computers and demands that a ransom is paid. A danish shipping firm, a russian oil giant, an American Pharmaceutical Company and a british Advertising Agency are among the companies that have been hit. The cyber attack seems to be similar to the one that struck the nhs last month. Our security correspondent, gordon corera, has been monitoring. A cyber attack is sweeping across the globe taking systems off line. Another reminder of the risks we face. The first signs came in ukraine. Systems went down this morning. Some people tried to take money out of bank machines, found they couldnt. Even the radiation Monitoring System at the Chernobyl Nuclear plant was briefly taken offline. The scale was enormous. We had the virus spread, cyber virus on the transport, bank, media, infrastructure of ukraine, in government and in the co operative sectors as well
Welcome to bbc news. A large scale cyber attack that started in ukraine is continuing to spread across the world tonight. The virus freezes computers and demands that a ransom is paid. A danish shipping firm, a russian oil giant, an American Pharmaceutical Company and a british Advertising Agency are among the companies that have been hit. The cyber attack seems to be similar to the one that struck the nhs last month. Our security correspondent, gordon corera, has been monitoring. A cyber attack is sweeping across the globe taking systems off line. Another reminder of the risks we face. The first signs came in ukraine. Systems went down this morning. Some people tried to take money out of bank machines, found they couldnt. Even the radiation Monitoring System at the Chernobyl Nuclear plant was briefly taken offline. The scale was enormous. We had the virus spread, cyber virus on the transport, bank, media, infrastructure of ukraine, in government and in the co operative sectors as well