Government in Northern Ireland expires injust under two hours, with no agreement in sight. Sinn fein is refusing to be part of an Executive Led by the Democratic Unionist leader, Arlene Foster. The Northern Ireland secretary will have to decide whether to call a Snap Election. And the new £1 coin is released tomorrow but are these everyday machines ready for it . Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may will meet Nicola Sturgeon in scotland later for the First Time Since the snp announced their proposals for a second independence referendum. At the beginning of a week that will see article 50 triggered on wednesday, the Prime Minister will say she wants to build a more united nation. Tomorrow, the Scottish Parliament is expected to pass a vote in favour of seeking a new Scottish Independence referendum, which ms sturgeon wants to hold in autumn 2018 or spring 2019. Theresa may, though, has said now is not the time for it. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. It
Government in Northern Ireland expires injust under two hours, with no agreement in sight. Sinn fein is refusing to be part of an Executive Led by the Democratic Unionist leader, Arlene Foster. The Northern Ireland secretary will have to decide whether to call a Snap Election. And the new £1 coin is released tomorrow but are these everyday machines ready for it . Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may will meet Nicola Sturgeon in scotland later for the First Time Since the snp announced their proposals for a second independence referendum. At the beginning of a week that will see article 50 triggered on wednesday, the Prime Minister will say she wants to build a more united nation. Tomorrow, the Scottish Parliament is expected to pass a vote in favour of seeking a new Scottish Independence referendum, which ms sturgeon wants to hold in autumn 2018 or spring 2019. Theresa may, though, has said now is not the time for it. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. It
prevails. And when push comes to shove people realize there would be an enormous damage, to both europe and Great Britain, should britain walk away. A warm welcome to countdown. I am an edward. Just past 6 00 in london. Manus will be joining us from dubai. Let us talk about what is happening in oil and stocks, a chart next to me that really encapsulates the relationship between these two asset classes, if you go back to the middle of last year. They have moved very much in synchrony. And of the oil price tending to move in lockstep, or least in the same step. Oil prices over 50 a barrel or the first time in six months. A oneweeks hitting high. But i should say that old has actually snapped its sixday losing streak. Not all good in the overnight trading environment. Lets talk about the risk radar. We have to feature the price of oil because we have gone on the brent price over 60, up high 7 10 of a percent. Theda, venezuela, nigeria disruption playing in here, as well as the drop we saw
Power struggle with the president. The market is about to open in istanbul. Things willyou how set up. Half an hour from European Equity trading. Lets take you to the calculations. The ftse 100, a bunch of stocks. Ep the main one to keep an eye on. We need to show you the aussie dollar. Clearly, the change at the rba is one of the talking points. Rates are at a record low. Keep an eye on the lira. That is what is happening. A massive move yesterday. We have a press conference at 11 00. Trading up 2 . The hang seng down. His market, just opening. Ahead of the press conference. We will be covering the story throughout the morning. We will come back to that. Lets get you your news. Juliette optimism still outranks pessimists. Earlier, the China Council meeting said more needed to be done to prevent promote private investment growth. Investorsys have been piling into futures, pushing up prices and volumes. The tightening of rules and in some cases, the cutting of trading hours. The brazili
Nasdaq up by 16. You have earnings, Economic Data and more fed speak. You have best buy, smuckers and gap all set to report erngs today. Weekly jobless claims hitting the tape at 8 30 avm eastern time and the philly fed survey and leading indicators. After yesterdays market moving fomc minutes well hear from Stanley Fisher today. Here on squawk box well hear from Loretta Mester. Shes the cleveland fed president and she will be joining us at 8 30 eastern time. The bank of Japan Holding its Monetary Policy steady. This despite data that showed the economy there slipped into recession. Also the nikkei closing at a three month high today. Square pricing its ipo at 9 a share. Its not great news because its below the range of 11 to 13 and well short of the stock in the private funding round. Giving them a market cap of about 2. 9 billion. Thats half of the private market valuation just a year ago and could have a huge impact on other private market valuations which of course public funds als