Persist. And Divide And Rule we get the inside track on the business thats split the world up into 57 trillion three metre squares, each with its own code. Its an innovative approach to mapping thats being taken up by the likes of the red cross and deutsche bahn. Dont forget, we always want to hear from you about anything on the programme its easy to get in touch, just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme, stay tuned for that inside track, it is fascinating, this three metres square here has its own unique code, we will explain that for you later. The eu and china will attempt to deepen ties at a summit later. There is concern among some about us president Donald Trumps stance on trade and Climate Change. Chinese premier li keqiang will meet European Council president donald tusk and the head of the European Commission jean claude juncker. Chinese premier li keqiang will meet European Council president theyre looking at how they can counter Donald Trumps policy of putti
Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost, good morning to you from me as well. Throwback thursday, were throwing it back with songs of summer. I cant believe its june. Summer. Hopefully it starts to feel like summer in new york. Its been not the best spring. Weve had a british spring. I know. Its memories of home. I bet it gets good as i go to the uk next week. Hopefully. So you hope it will be nice in london or not . I hope its nice here finally. And in london . Yes, for the race. Noshgts its t, its the ele. The dow up a third of a percent yesterday, the nasdaq, up 1 . Tech up 4 , energy the worst performer, down about 4 . Albeit oil prices were positive for the month until yesterdays declines. Lets look at oil prices. Up 1. 3 this morning. For the month of may as a whole, down 2 . Positivity in the futures market this morning. Slight gains, slight rebound. So not necessarily sell in may, go away. Futures are up. Seven months straight for the nasdaq. To t
The cac is up by three quarters of a percentage point. Italian stocks up by 1 . The dax and ftse both up by a third of a percentage point. If you look at crude oil prices, there was some additional pressure that came into this on some libyan output recovering from a technical issue at an oil field that has concerns about whether opec and all of the production halts that the production cuts they continued will really be that effective. Things are picking thank you morning. Starting at the base of 48. 61. Breaking news for you. U. S. Paints maker Ppg Industries will not make a bid for akzo nobel after several informal offers have been rejected. Under dutch law ppg cannot approach akzo nobel for another six months. A check on shares of both of those companies. Akzo nobel down by a point and a half. Ppg unchanged at the moment. Thats the one to watch later today. On todays agenda, Dollar General reporting before the open. Broadcom and lululemon are out after the close. A ton of data throug
Im Carl Quintanilla i have finally heard that song desposito. And a new back out by Jason Calacanis called angel. How to turn 100,000 into 100,000,000 the nasdaq another record high seeing the longest win streak in 200 years, trying for record close. A lot of this is due to nasdaqs outperformance of 17 versus 9 and change. I dont know if we can call it a comeback. I have been waiting a long time to use that in context, but netflix a lot stronger, particularly domestically as we talked about this yesterday. People expected this to be this continues to happen in tech fang strong. Well see what happens with iphone out later with. 12 out of the last 14 quarters its been down 3 or more after earnings analysts, nonetheless, saw Silver Linings in this quarter despite the fact there is strategic growth areas the growth was slower there up only 7 . But still some positives, you know, profitability was pretty good eps number one good. Some of that was because of a tax benefit, but not all becaus
South of france and corsica fight huge forest fires banned by high temperatures and strong winds. Close to the Tourist Resort of saint tropez, nearly 2000 Fire Fighters have been put into action as dozens of homes are evacuated. And britains adam peaty has broken his own 50 metre breast stroke world record, in the heats of the World Swimming Championships in hungary. Good morning. Its tuesday the 25th ofjuly. Im ben brown. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Builders could be banned from selling new houses as Leasehold Properties in england under proposals put forward by the government today. It comes after it emerged some Housing Developers have been selling the leasehold on to Investment Firms without always telling homeowners, leading to extra costs or rising charges. The government says there is a particular problem in the North West Of England where houses were being sold on leasehold although its not clear why. The communities secretary, sajid javid, has said enough is enough as he set