Reduced share count, we also announced we would increase our dividend by 10 . Hsbc first half net profit tops 18 billion more than doubling on the year before sending shares to the top of the stoxx 600 Ceo Noel Quinn says they will gain from the performance. If all goes to plan this year, we should be above the prepandemic level we are paying a flat 10 cents. Investors in high spirits as diageo posts a beat in full sales and operating profit the ceo says double digit net sales in beguinness is a driver for the group. People love guinness right now. And daimler helps offset pressure with the bullish guidance for the trucking sector we will hear from the ceo martin daum this hour we certainly have been following the busiest weeks for earnings across europe bmw released their numbers for the full year outlook. Updating the full year outlook the margin is at 12. 6 for the first half of 2023 also saying that it is 11. 3 when one just takes a look at the three months of the Second Quarter fo
This hour, the british beer and Pub Association is warning the governments alcohol duty changes will cost the industry an extra £225 million in tax. This the Prime Minister, however, has defended the overhaul, saying it will benefit thousands of businesses. The new thousands of businesses. The new system sees a shift from taxing alcoholic drinks based on their type, focusing instead on their strength, duty on certain drinks such as wine and vodka, will rise while tax on draught pints will be cut by around £0. 11. Roads and local transport minister Richard Holden says brexit made the changes possible. Were not going to see the price of a pint going up in your local pub due to our new draft beer duty relief, something that we couldnt have done when we were in the European Union that differential between what differential now between what you differential now between what you pay differential now between what you pay in the supermarket on terms of tax and what you pay in a is now gone u
Is entirely consistent with the uks target to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Rishi sunak said that even by then the uk would need its oil and gas for 25 of energy needs. The prime 25 of energy needs. The Prime Minister says its better , minister says its better, therefore to source that fuel from britain rather than shipping it in from around the world. The decision has been criticised by environment groups, saying its dangerously inconel consistent with the governments climate policies. Governments climate policies. Teachers in england are no longer on strike as all four teaching unions accept. Longer on strike as all four teaching unions accept. A 6. 5 teaching unions accept. A 6. 5 pay teaching unions accept. A 6. 5 pay rise that means all industrial action is now being called off following walkouts in state schools since february in a dispute over pay. The education secretary, Gillian Keegan, welcomed comes the decision, saying it brings to an end a disruption for the classroom.
Or delayed, he argued these prosecutions interfere with his campaign to get back into the white house. How can you run for election to be sitting in a courthouse in manhattan all day long . Im supposed to be in South Carolina right now where other people are and where, again, this is where i should be. Mr trumps also facing trial later this year in atlanta, georgia, on charges of election interference. The District Attorney who brought the case against him, fani willis, has admitted having an affair with the man she appointed as the chief prosecutor. She was questioned about that in court today. Defense lawyers want to have her disqualified because of that relationship. I think in one of your motions, you tried to implicate i slept with him at that conference, which i find to be extremely offensive. Mr trumps already using this scandal to try to undermine the case against him. Donald trump insists all the prosecutions against him are deliberately designed to try to stop him from being