Its Australian Business to asahi to 10 billion euros. And Oil Prices Climb after the u. S. Navy takes down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz ratcheting up tensions between washington and tehran. Good morning, everybody. One of the names were very much focused on, a big mover is publicics in france, down 7. 5 the french Advertising Group has actually announced that it will be we will be getting more information on that. You can see that the stock is down about 7. 5 . Down about 15 over the last few months they have slashed their 2019 revenue guidance after delivering a worse than expected Second Quarter the Third Largest Advertising Group posted organic growth of 0. 1 , missing Market Expectations as it suffered from weak ad spending in the United States publicis put its 2020 targets under review citing the 4 4. 4 billion acquisition of epsilon for the move. Im pleased to say karen is around the desk with us. Karen is somewhat of an expert in this field and has been following pub
The top court of the European Union began hearing a case that began with revelations that a u. S. Spy agency the National Security agency was compelling facebook and Similar Companies to turn over private data from users in the e. U. The 11 specific questions that spun out of that case are now before the court and center on the rules that govern Tech Companies sharing data from users around the world socalled standard contractual causes or c cs if the e. C. J. Finds that as he sees fail to protect the privacy rights guaranteed by e. U. Laws Companies Like facebook and its peers could be forced to sequester that lucrative trove of european consumer data and rewrite their rules for sharing what is arguably their most valuable resource a decision from the court is expected before the end of this year. Catching up with africa 54 of 55 leaders attending the recent African Union summit in nigeria has signed an agreement to create the african continental free. Trade area the proposal under di
We begin with the most important week of earnings season. More than 130 s p 500 Companies Reporting results including three big fang names, facebook, amazon and google. So we thought we would play a game the good, the bad and the ugly in this weeks tech reports. Of those names facebook, alphabet, amazon which is the good, bad and ugly. This is a new game. Old song. Yes classic song any of the actors in good, bad and ugly why do you ask me oddly enough, im glad to be here on a monday very excited to play this new game the way you line them up on the screen is the way i would line them up in my head the good is facebook why is that . The bad news theyve thrown at it doesnt matter. The stock made a 50 correction when it traded down on 164 on huge volume. I dont want to like it but i think it will retest the old highs. The bad amazon not necessarily the quarter will be bad but the price action might be we pushed up against those levels we saw in september i believe of last year 2025. There
Africa 54. 00 of 55. 00 leaders attending the recent African Union summit in nigeria has signed an agreement to create the african Continental Free Trade Area the proposal under discussion for 4 years advanced after Regional Power nigeria was convinced to support it. As one of the remaining holdouts on the continents agreement which would eliminate most tariffs has been ratified in the National Parliaments of about half of the African Union members the unions trade and industry commissioner predicted that the area would become operational by july of 2020 that gathered elders also advanced plans for pan african Payment System to maximize efficiencies within the trading bloc and reduce trade barriers created by the region scarcity of foreign exchange. And japan has launched another round in the back and forth with south korea over new restrictions on export materials used in semiconductors and smartphone displays japanese trade and industry minister here a show. Tokyo was not thinking at
I judge banks message to the world is that they are undergoing a restructuring a routine restructuring like the ones that have happened every quarter for the past few years in order to return the business to profitability in this current iteration davie is attempting to shed its Equities Investments its trading business and shift over to primarily a lending business now on the surface this move makes perfect sense but lets dig a little deeper remember when bear stearns underwent a restructuring translation they are in a full on crisis mode now the debts of Lehman Brothers and bear stearns were quick and painless but the coming the rise of Deutsche Bank has been long drawn out and very painful and recent times daveys Investment Banking division has been among the largest in the walls comparable to goldman j. P. Morgan and they have led book writers and notable i. P. O. s such as go daddy and aston martin and ali baba. And more but today with the stock trading at 7. 00 per share that is