Anna flights over france are cut at a plant air Traffic Controller strike that could affect aircraft space for r 48 hours. Mark welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Investors pushing to a fresh sevenyear high today and trading from mainland investors are growing to a record. The surging chinese tech scares tech shares is making the day of the. Com bubble look mild. We will bring you the latest in just a couple of minutes. First up, oil here in europe today and what could be the biggest deal in more than a decade or the Energy Sector. Shell makes a 46 billion pound approach for gas producer bg group. Caroline, you have more on this possible deal. Hi caroline as you said, this could be the industrys biggest deal for a decade. This could create the secondbiggest Energy Producer in the world. It would be behind just exxon leaping over chevron in terms of size. And in fact, it could be the biggest gas producer in the entire world. These are the statistics that we are looking at, and as y
Hitting the United States as we speak. The northeast is seeing blizzard conditions from new york to maine. The worst of it is happening right now. Boston, it might get up to 14 inches of snow. New york city, up to 19 inches. More than 2000 flights have been canceled. 6000 have been delayed. Quite fascinating. New york and new jersey governors declaring a state of emergency. Lets bring it back to the u. K. , shall we . Retail, mixed fortune. Big discounts failed to spur lastminute christmas shopping. This is a predominant force in the United Kingdom. There have been a lot of concern about clothing retailers. Fashion sales are a concern. Haveing the likes of done far better. Many anticipating the next will be setting the scene for us. Trying to get the foot all football. They lost their chief Financial Officer as well. We are expecting sales to rise, but it will be eyes they did raise them back and knocked over. Next had a pretty good quarter. They raised their profit guidance. This is w
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. This is all about location. I usually bring you new national job numbers that the government puts out every month, but the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local level. Today we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas all across mark for april. Now while we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment ratedont look at this. The National Unemployment rate fell to 6. 3 . But we learned that it was lower than that at 5th 9 . Thats versus the National Rate of 6. 3 . Which ever you use, the story is the same. Jobs are coming back and unemployment levels are going down. But where youre looking for a job matters. Look at these areas in red. These are locations with a local jobless rates are higher than the average for all metropolitan areas in the United States. As you can see in big urban centers in t
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. This is all about location. I usually bring you new national job numbers that the government puts out every month, but the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local level. Today we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas all across mark for april. Now while we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment ratedont look at this. The National Unemployment rate fell to 6. 3 . But we learned that it was lower than that at 5th 9 . Thats versus the National Rate of 6. 3 . Which ever you use, the story is the same. Jobs are coming back and unemployment levels are going down. But where youre looking for a job matters. Look at these areas in red. These are locations with a local jobless rates are higher than the average for all metropolitan areas in the United States. As you can see in big urban centers in t
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. This is all about location. I usually bring you new national job numbers that the government puts out every month, but the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local level. Today we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas all across mark for april. Now while we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment ratedont look at this. The National Unemployment rate fell to 6. 3 . But we learned that it was lower than that at 5th 9 . Thats versus the National Rate of 6. 3 . Which ever you use, the story is the same. Jobs are coming back and unemployment levels are going down. But where youre looking for a job matters. Look at these areas in red. These are locations with a local jobless rates are higher than the average for all metropolitan areas in the United States. As you can see in big urban centers in t