In the takeover. Berkshire hathaway are getting 51 of craft. A solemn minute of science of silence today. They were mourning those lost yesterday when a german plane crashed. We are learning today two americans today a former u. S. Safety investigator says authorities want to know why the pilot made no distress call. Collects that will certainly be the number one item they will look closely to see what is going on around the cockpit. Betty a hong kong conglomerate is no written passes biggest wireless a 53 billion deal. Defense spending will be the point today when the house starts budget debates. Lawmakers are not sure. There are six republican plans. Against lawmakers who want to lower the deficit. Facebook founders reaching out to Software Developers today. Reaching out to the companys conference in San Francisco. We will let out designers reach facebook users even better than now per facebook shares are at an alltime high. Forecasting adding revenue this year just 37 . Those are yo
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
Hope is fading because it has been more than caught more than 48 hours since the quake struck. Their government says millions may be homeless. Landlocked country about 31 million people. A quarter of the population is below the poverty line. This country has struggled for a long time, well before the earthquake a couple days ago pair the biggest sector in nepal s agriculture, wheat, corn, sugar cane. And tourism is of course very big. Mount everests chief among them. 700 are still stuck at base camp. This is a country that shares a border with china and india. It does a lot of business with both of those countries. More than half of nepals imports come from india. 45 come from china. If you look at exports, more than half goes in india and chinas share is smaller but still significant. Hydroelectric power has been growth for nepal. There was an expectation we would see more deals like that going forward. Mark Deutsche Bank is a major overhaul. Reduce annual costs by 3. 8 billion dollar
Im guy johnson. And im francine lacqua. We will be talking about tech. Were taking you to the consumer willronics show where we show you an app that makes your home smarter. Continues tovortex wreak havoc on the United States. Chicago set a record with a temperature of minus 27 degrees celsius. That was colder than the south pole. The high in new york will struggle to reach a high of 18 degrees, creating chaos. Itsetblue airways suspended operations overnight, contributing to the cancellations of thousands of flights. The weather is also testing Americas Energy capacity. Grids have tried to bring more capacity online. Temperatures are life threatening and can freeze the skin in a matter of minutes. Moment, if youre in that region, stay indoors. Talking of warm welcomes, the treasury secretary of the United States, jack lew, managed to avoid the travel delays by the u. S. Weather. Using harris today. He is meeting with the french resident Francois Hollande and his finance minister. Are
You are watching the pulse. I am Francine Lacqua live from the Economic Forum in davos. We have a lan up heavy hitters for you today. We will be speaking to the italian governor for ike of italia, the italian bank and then we talk to the union credit ceo. We also speak to the chairman of audi. We have great panels as well. That is coming up. We will hear from the u. K. Prime minister David Cameron. He will be focusing on the economy and job creation. Well also hear from mark carney. Forward guidance, the buzzword here. Jonathan ferro, very excited about all of this. Hans nichols, was outside partying last night or inside partying. Where was he . This looks like quite a gig. He said it wasnt as much of a gig as it looked like but there are multiple parties. Had something from mckinsey, we have a google party, i am not sure which one that is. We will have to get it from the man himself. He will tell us where the action was on friday. Tonight we also have a party hosted by marissa mayer.