Announced a bipartisan deal on the twoyear budget provided more spending for military and domestic spending including disaster relief. Kevin, give us what you know about this deal. Kevin a busy afternoon on capitol hill as Mitch Mcconnell Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer that they have a twoyear agreement to keep the government open. This comes as the house of representatives sending the measure to the senate, and we should know the details crossing the terminal as we speak. The deal will include disaster and oconnell is calling this a significant bipartisan step forward. It also notes the immigration debate is still coming and they have to get i march 5. It appears republicans got their way and separating immigration from this deal. Should also report that President Trump did not play a significant role in the back channel negotiations. Shery given that he said immigration is decoupled from this budget deal, we have heard House Minority leader nancy pelosi opposing it. What you kn
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This is d. W. News coming to you live from berlin as germanys new government starts to take shape europes taking score germanys coalition in the making and reveals a potential ships in policy but does this mean for the rest of europe that have nothing else also coming up. Americas Vice President arrives in south korea ahead of the olympics focusing tougher sanctions all ignore. Him scholes calling relations between sold and kill and yank the destruction. Of german cars took to the pitch on wednesday frankfurt book their summer a final berth in a big win over mines which features some crabs scoring chances for the hopes. Oh im terry martin good to have you with us. Germanys two biggest Political Parties have probably agreed on a deal to form a Coalition Government they made the announcement in berlin yesterday after another grueling game of give and take more than four months after the countrys elections but both chancellor are going to tackle and her social democrat counterpart say the
Unicredit reports its highest Fourth Quarter profit in a decade and rolls out its first Cash Dividend in half a decade. Shares in swiss re spike nearly 6 at the open addres ja softbank looks to invest in the insurer. Insurance is finally a very interesting industry its in a transformation its in a radical revolution the parameters that run the industry and constrained the industry for years no longer exist. And chinese imports surge in january and contributes to the yu yuans worst day in 2 1 2 years. One of the big stories, softbank in talks with swiss re about taking a stake in the company, that sent shares close to the top of the stoxx 600. The deal could be worth around 10 billion and would give the Japanese Firm a onethird stake in the reinsurer swiss re said the talks were at an early stage and theres no certainty any transaction will be agreed. Doesnt seem like investors are seeing it that way Zurich Insurance reported fullyear net profit ahead of expectations the figure came in
Companies will meet today to thrash out a rail deal nestle says it will speed up share buybacks and pursue external Growth Opportunities as the Swiss Company pledges to improve margins and cut costs. Good morning, everyone its tuesday glad youre with us once again we have another jam packed show. Lets kick things off with a look at the equity markets youre onehour into the trading session. Were fairly even steven at this point. The latest escalation in the war of words between north korea and the u. S. Is not helping. We are largely brushing that off. Stoxx 600 is close to session highs. Safe havens are seeing inflows are gold, the yen and the swiss. Markets one by one, the xetra dax is just clinging on to the flat line, off by 5 points ftse 100 off by 0. 2. Cac 40 up by 0. 1 . When it comes to sectors, a couple interesting things to tell you about oil is not doing too badly up 0. 3 this as brent is moving closer to the 60 a barrel mark. Tech seeing underperformance. You have it down b