Acceleration in investment since june as industrial output eats estimates beats estimates. Could a firmer recovery be underway . Treyew brexit e. U. Chief pulls no punches on his First Washington trip, cautioning President Trump about protectionism and shortterm thinking. We spoke about him exclusively on resetting relations. The objective of the visit is to try to reset the relationship,t ry to understand each other in relation at the moment and find Common Ground with the United States. We started on a positive note. Matt barclays is cutting around 100 senior jobs across corporate and Investment Bank as the lender looks to rein in costs. Morgan stanley plans to 80 dozens of staff at its wealth business in asia. Lets look first at futures. Even after the new record we hit yesterday, were looking at gains in futures, and fairly substantial gains at that. Dax futures up 0. 5 . U. S. Futures, not the same size but the same direction, green a rrows on the nasdaq, s p and dow jones futures
The rise of sky walker already on pace to break some records. Weve got those details as powe lunch starts right now check out this record rally. The market on track to wrap it all up at all time highs check out shares of boeing that stock down a percent as united says it will not fly the 737 max until june well have more on that story in minute yes, we will. Thank you. Gdp numbers, Gross Domestic Product are out this morning 2. 1 growth for the fourth quarter. Closing out the first decade in recorded American History without a recession. We have more on the slow and steady, what do we call them 2010s . 2010. The teens you work on that. Ill come out later. Were going to work on what we could call the most boring decade youd say Nothing Happened gdp averaged 2 . It fell 2. 5 in the Great Recession in 09 in 09 the lowest it got this decade just 1. 6. The lowest average inflation and we hit the lowest Unemployment Rate donald trump who brought big Corporate Tax cuts and the trade war that
It is the insurers and medical providers doing so well today. Unitedhealth group up 8. 6 . Medical loss provision was not as bad as anticipated. It was actually better than forecast, and that has all of those insurers higher. Johnson johnson saying it is not setting aside money for those court cases it is going to fight, and will win thousands of them, according to johnson johnson. The 10 year yield moved quite a bit in the session, back after a holiday yesterday, 1. 75 on the 10 year. Guy letsguy take a look at where we are in europe, dominated by the brexit news over the last few minutes. The pound spiking up on the cable rate against the u. S. Dollar towards 1. 28. The ftse 250, the more to mystically focused market, also spiking. When it comes the more domestically focused market, also spiking. When it comes to the ftse 100, some names spiking sharply. As you can see, a strong response to the headlines being reported out of brussels. Apparently, eu negotiators and breasted negotiat
And whether its going to affect the way they vote in the general election in december. Also today, orkambi, a drug to treat Cystic Fibrosis, will now be available to patients in england, scotland and Northern Ireland. But what about wales . This is rebekah bow, mum of eight year old sofia. She lives in south wales and, as things stand, wont be able to get the drug. Well be speaking to them both. And Laura Huteson was killed with a knife wound to the neck while having sex with a man shed met in a bar. Campaigners are calling for deaths during consensual rough sex to be treated always as murder. What were really asking for is forjuries to be given the chance to opine on this and for prosecutors not to almost chicken out of prosecuting these as more serious charges. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. We are definitely going to talk later about donald trump because you might have seen that he tweeted this picture last night showing him giving a medal of honou
Im Lewis Vaughanjones in london. Also in the programme the pope speaks out against those who started the amazon fires, comparing their greed to a new form of colonialism. And prepare to be inspired well meet the 75 year old whos probably stronger than you. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london and 7 am here in singapore and also in hong kong, where scores of people were arrested on sunday after new emergency laws where brought in to try and end months of civil unrest. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in the latest protests and there were violent clashes as they were met by riot police. The new law forbids people from Wearing Masks to try and conceal their identity at demonstrations with a possible one year prison sentence. Our asia correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Loud bangs. At what point does a protest movement become a rebellion . Today in hong kong, it felt clo