The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j
Offenders, first time thieves, first time shoplifters should not be prosecuted , but should not be prosecuted, but should merely get a caution. Ill ask the question tonight does this open the door to mass offending on a scale weve never seen before. 7 before all of that, before . Before all of that, lets get the news with polly middlehurst. Middlehurst. Nigel, thank you. Good evening. Our top story from gb news tonight is that labour supporting unions have been accused of attempting to block the use of the bibby stockholm home to house asylum seekers. A home to house asylum seekers. A government source has described that as a betrayal of the country and of the british people. Its after the Fire Brigades Union labelled the accommodation barge as a potential death trap and requested an urgent meeting with the home secretary about overcrowding and fire exit concerns. It could now be next week before any migrants are moved to the vessel, which is currently moored off portland in dorset , a
Week before any migrants are moved to the vessel, which is currently moored off portland in dorset , a currently moored off portland in dorset, a mans been found guilty today of murdering his ten month old stepson, jacob crouch was found dead in his cot at his derbyshire home in 2020. He had suffered rib fractures and was bruised with internal injuries as well. Craig crouch has been convicted of murder and three counts of Child Cruelty. The babys mother, gemma barton, was also found guilty of Child Cruelty and causing allow or allowing his death. Detective inspector paul bullock said he hopes the verdict will bring closure for jacobs wider family. Its clear from the evidence found on gemma barton and craig crouchs phones through text messages, videos and audio recordings that they were equally responsible for the culture of cruelty that was inflicted on baby jacob. As a father , i cannot as a father, i cannot comprehend what happened behind closed doors and my thoughts remain with jaco
Opens in percentage terms. S p would open down about 3. 5 . Dow futures down by 2. 7 . The nasdaq down 3. 4 . Counterfactual here from the fear mongers. I think the sun will come up tomorrow. The european markets are having a rougher go of things this morning. Ftsi down, the dax over a 6. 5 . The cac in france down 7. 9 . Italy stocks down close to 10 and in spain the ibex is over 10 . Concern about weaker potential economies what would happen if after brexit the rest of the European Union starts to fall apart lets start working on. We have grexit as a word. Italianexit. Spanexit. Portugo. We need to start working on the signs. I think its already gone someone told me. Some that ugly looking thing. Lets look at the currency markets that is where much of the havoc had played out again. The pound had gone into this on the assumption that this vote would go and the uk would actually remain. As a result we saw the pound almost at 150 yesterday. Right now down by over 6. 5 to 139 but went a
Rebounds there at least for the cac in france and dax in germany. Germany right now the dax is up 1. 5 . The cac is up by one and three quarters percent and we keep watching that Greece Market because of what it tells us about negotiations right now. In asia overnight you saw that the nikkei closed higher. Didnt follower as it tends to do from time to time. It closed up one third of a percent. The shanghai was up slightly. Well be talking about the broader markets including currencies and commodities in a molt. But stock has a look at the big stories driving todays trading. Lets start in europe. Ecb president mario draghi set to speak at a conference in frank frankfurt. Back here in the states theres plenty of speculation about what the fed will do or say at its next meeting. That twoday gathering is set to begin next tuesday but today the markets will also focus on the treasuries 21 billion auction of notes. And also worth watching today after the closing bell stress test. The fed is