Doubles n Second Quarter sending shares to the top of the European Market. Benefiting from a fall in bad loan provisions. A sweet session for nestle, too. They launch a Buyback Program as an emerging market pick up boosts sales. And investors hoping for a windful from rio tinto. Posting a first half jump in profits thanks to iron oreships. We speak first to the ceo in just a couple minutes time. Display youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Good morning, everyone. Youre watching worldwide exchange. Roughly one hour into the trading session, the stoxx europe 600 extending its weeklong slide. Were down by 0. 2 as were digesting the retaliatory efforts coming from russia. The ftse mib has been the big underperformer in yesterdays trading session. Its bouncing back just modestly, up 0. 5 following that shock return to recession yesterday for the italian economy. The cac 40 down 0. 2 and the xetra dax still 900 points away from that high, down
Warner cable. We are kicking it off with the thing everybody is talking about , president obama going in front of the Senate Chamber tonight for his fifth state of the union address. The president tonight will announce that for federal contractors he is going to sign an executive order mandating the increase of a minimum wage up to 10. 10. 10. 10, the federal minimum wage right now is seven dollars 20 five cents. That is 14,500 a year for a fulltime worker. These federal contractors how many are there . This is the start of the first bush as he tries to pressure first push as he for ato Pressure Congress federal minimum wage increase. How many are there . A few hundred thousand, but leadying to increase by example. Wants to provide for costof living increases periodically. A couple hundred thousand. That is. 06 of the u. S. Population. Its a start. Some republicans are not buying the minimum wage mission. We are going to see a lot of the same themes in this years state of the union as
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