We are without the United States. President s day in the u. S. That means a lot of participants stateside but we also see reduced trading over the Asian Session as well. We saw the asian equities session with the nikkei moving higher, 1. 8 . A little higher a little harder to make any headway. More will get to more that. Our focus on what we are doing in europe because without the United States and the chinese and hong kong markets are closed. Thats get the first word news update. President trump spent the weekend criticizing everyone but russia for meddling. He tweeted 14 times over 24 hours criticizing the fbi, democrats and special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. They came after his sweeping indictment of 13 russians for allegedly leading social media efforts to attack trump rival, hillary clinton. In florida, students at the high school where 17 people were shot and killed are speaking out or gun control. They plan to organize antigun violence marches for next month. In the
Governments. Computer says no. A Technical Glitch holds trading for more than three hours. Raising tensions on wall street as details on the outage remain unknown. Air france lands a deal with dutch pilots over pay and benefits clearing the way for its restructuring plan. Hi everyone. Im seema mody. Coming up on todays show movers and shakers as some of the biggest names in business gather in idaho. Well discover what black bustockbuster bids are in the work. Plus would you turn down 30 murder in the Second Degree for a business idea . Well show you what happened with the creators of a dating app appeared on primetime. Chinese security regulator stopped large shareholders from cutting their stake. The ban will last six months with those not adhering to the rule facing punishment. Its up 5. 8 . Martin has the latest for us in singapore. Thanks a lot. Wilfred good morning. Thats the big story here. Limiting big shareholders. 5 or more from selling out for at least six months. Thats the m
Welcome to the countdown. Im anna edwards. Were a lot of news around greece. We get to that in just a moment. We heard the ecb yesterday that they were increasing liquidity. A lots about the me speak to the eu commissioner. That is an exclusive conversation and it takes place on this program. Used to be in charge of latvia. Then later we theres thinking that his vision for londons infrastructure later, we will be joined by a host of ceos. Those Companies Release their numbers for the most recent quarter. The president of the Swedish Telecom giant joins us in just under an hours time for his first conversation. Those numbers are just breaking now. Theyre keeping their outlook unchanged. Coming in just under estimates. Lets get back to greece. Finance ministers authorized a bridge loan to greece. That is according to the irish Prime Minister. It paves the way for a third of bailout that could keep greece in the common currency. Lets get more with Caroline Hyde and hans nichols. Yesterday
Were the two profit drivers in the Second Quarter for General Motors and more importantly for investors, margins were above 10 and for the remainder of this year General Motors expects business to be Even Stronger in part because of pickup trucks in north america. Our pickup share in the Second Quarter was up close to 3 Percentage Points on a year over year basis. So we continue to see a lot of Strong Demand for fullsize pickups, suvs and crossovers. To drive that point home think about this. Year to date General Motors pickup sales, both fullsize and midsize up 25 . Thats one reason why gm is doing so well in north america which we saw in the 2q numbers. Eli lilly beat the street. Meg tirrell, the Company Raised its forecast for the year. The beat on the adjusted earnings was 16 cents. Raise only by 10 cents though. Ceo on squawk box this morning address what went into that question. As we are launching products and bringing drugs through our late stage pipeline that drives certain am
The astronaut is the tenth japanese astronaut sent into space. Hell stay on the iss for about five months where hell wary out a number of experiments. They include looking at materials thought to be the origin of life floating in space. When the japanese ship docks in august he will work with a robotic arm and work with a fellow astronaut who will be at the Ground Control center. Japanese government officials are calling on their chinese counterparts to resume talks on a pact to jointly develop gas fields in the East China Sea. The two sides last spoke on the matter five years ago. Officials in tokyo say theyve confirmed china has built 12 new structures since 2013. And theyve ibuprofened photos and maps showing the structures and their locations. Both decided to develop gas fields together. They later held talks on a treaty but talks were suspended after a chinese fishing boat connected with ships. China and taiwan claim the senkaku islands. Translator japan and china had agreed to ma