Fruitjuices and fizzy drinks are linked to increased chances of getting cancer, according to a major new study. The French Parliament approves a new tax on Technology Giants that could provoke retaliation from the United States. Crunch time as england take on australia at edgbaston the winners will play new zealand in the final at lords on sunday. Dream start for england. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Three iranian boats have tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the island of abu musa in the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf, a strategically important passage in the oil and gas trade. The uks ministry of defence said the iranian boats, believed to belong to the revolutionary guards, asked the oil tanker to stop in iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a british warship was positioned between them and the oil tanker, and a warning was issued. Iran has denied any encounter between its forces and foreign ships in the last 2a hours. Relations between iran and
Thunderstorms my breaking out and into scotland as well. The reason why is low pressure moving across the British Isles at the moment and its moving across scotland. This is where we are going to see some of the heavier downpours, with the risk of flash flooding particularly across the eastern side of scotland this afternoon. It is eastern scotland, down into parts of north east england, where, if you do catch a thunderstorm you could see may be 20 30 millimetres of rain in an hour. Theyll be fairly slow moving. You can pick out one or two in the midlands and east anglia, maybe 10 15 millimetres of rain so the potential for some disruption. May be rather drizzly towards west facing welsh hills and its a rather muqqy facing welsh hills and its a rather muggy, warm afternoon out there, very pleasant if you get to see some sunshine and many places will be dry with sunny spells, but through the Late Afternoon into this evening just a closer look at where we are expecting some of the thunde
Anna any hint of stimulus. Mario draghi delivers a pitinos a keynote speech with investors scanning for close on policy. The fed begins its two day meeting. Airbus gets a boost. American air is assessed to be in talks to buy 50 new alienfter they hand in 11 dollar deal. We are live at the Paris Air Show. Money as phils tronic cuts fullyear Sales Forecasts. What looks to be less than expectedly sunny conference. Is quite do me and gloomy here which i think is fitting. We look at treasuries, yielding almost 2 right now. Winds yielding negative, 25 basis points. Yesterday we had olivia saying basically that the ecb no longer has the tools it needs to confront if we were to say one, even a mild recession that governments need to be spending more money, fiscal policy needs to take center stage and that is unlikely to happen since the germans are the only one with any money and they famously do not like spending money. Everyone else has budget surpluses that are pushing up against the eu rul
1. 2 billion google does have the option of appealing the decision the stock, as you can see, down by 1. 25 this is something weve known was in the works and coming, but this is a larnlgs flge number tt your head around it makes me wonder, too, two sectors were not seen as virtuous, financial and energy in the new administration they are more virtuous or more part of the solution. Technology theres more questions about it, not just abroad but also in the United States about its power privacy issues. Concerns with Law Enforcement when they want the encryption codes. For some people, when amazon bought whole foods, they were like, wow, kale by robot im out. This is too much. I think these issues have been brewing for a long time but its also part of the political zeitgeist were in in terms of who has the power, who is wielding it. Tetechnology is a sector has been winning and the less firt wo virtuous have been losing. Im overweight financials, industrials. The sector that performed sinc
Performance. Roche getting shot in the arm as they raise guidance on hopes of a strong drug pipeline. Good morning, everyone. It is thursday. Its ecb day and the stoxx europe 600 index is hugging the flat line after the uninspiring hand over from the u. S. And asia. A couple of stories to tell you about but lets tell you what the european markets are doing one by one. The dax up by just a little bit. The cac 40 is down by just a touch. Overall not a whole lot of movement. Now Strong Demand in europe and china boosted profits over at daimler. Also roche up by 1. 3 . Publicists complaining about the business saying its simply not good enough. Angelo american down by 3. 3 . Lets talk about ebay. It is on solid ground after its split from paypal. The stock surging about 9 in after hours. This is after topping wall street earnings projections and raising its outlook for the year. It on thes to grow without paypal. 2 million new active buyers on the site in the Third Quarter. Still their pro