Country at the moment, and for the remainder of this week, it looks as though its going to be windy, with gales at times. This is the story and this is why it looks so bleak. There is a lot of cloud and the rain is sweeping from west to east eddies and once that clears away its going to be replaced by more. But this time it will be the strength of the wind. This is storm eleanor and on its southern flank we are likely to see gusts of up to 80mph through the night to night. Probably Clearing Northern ireland around midnight, heading towards a southern scotland and north west england and north wales. 80mph is enough to cause disruption. The strong bit of the winds easing to the east of the pennines as we go through the morning. For the far north of scotla nd morning. For the far north of scotland tomorrow morning, slightly lighter winds and a colder start, a little frost around as well. Into northern ireland, southern scotland, north west england, we are still likely to see gusts of 40mp
Its the 2nd of january. Im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Protests have been taking place at around a0 railway stations across the uk, following the biggest increase in fares in five years. Average ticket prices have risen by 3. 4 , with many season Ticket Holders now having to pay more than a £100 a year extra. Campaigners warn the rise is pricing ordinary people off the railways. Labour have described the rail franchising system as a racket but the government says its investing more in faster, more reliable trains. Heres our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott. Hi, there. Can i see your tickets, please . Another new year, another fare rise. Regulated season tickets go up by 3. 6 this year. It will add just shy of £150 to the price for commuters coming into london on the strike riddled line from hove in east sussex. Nearly £110 to a yearly ticket from liverpool to manchester. And commuters going into birmingham from gloucester must find £140 more this year. Many no
Forecast. I am yousef gamal eldin. Ahn. i am shery we are seeing that Global Equity trading, andian asian currencies gaining ground. Ome the nikkei losing 1. 5 a very important day for india as we get the 2017 Economic Survey and the annual estimate this evening. Losing ground,00 miners reeling, as oil prices coming down. Ally, this entire week were the about Central Banks. Yousef absolutely. We have a big week for Central Banks, the fed, boj, also the brings up this conversation around policy and pressure on the u. S. Dollar. Let me show you a chart that tells the story. Ecb tried to hike rates, but to turn a corner. This is the state of play of key Central Banks. The line in yellow is the fed target rate. On the fact they may not change rates, the base case expectation, but looking very carefully as to what they will possible balancen sheet reduction, speaking of possible passive shrinkage. Lets speak more about rising fromons, big developments the Trump Administration. The white hou
In london and midday in hong kong. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Lets start with how markets closed in the u. S. On friday. We had a big day on friday thanks to the payroll report coming in at 235,000 jobs. Put all the major indexes in the green. 33 and the russell 0. 38 percent. It should give you some indication of the optimism taking place in markets. Here in the middle east we are two hours away run the opening of the emirates market, dubai and abu dhabi. Theyntrast to the u. S. , had a bit of a rough close. All three of those indices down last week. A lot of optimism around oil and into this to feed equity prices. A different story elsewhere in the region. Egypt almost up 1 . A good end of the week for catch our. Quatar. Talk about bitcoin. We had a major decision from the u. S. Securities regulator about the proposed bitcoin etfs. Take a look at this chart. You can see the timeline of the proposal of this bitcoin etf in the summer of 2013 at a now we have the decision to
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