Not by as much as the company had indicated it could have. Its the first hike since the service was introduced. A lot happening in the Retail Sector today. Data showing a slight increase in february sales. Results from Dollar General and jcpenney relaunching its home goods department. And some new information in the gm ignition switch recall. The automaker now telling affected owners not to weigh down their key rings with anything more than the car key and key fob. Well talk more about that. First up, though, amazon is raising the price of its prime Subscription Service to 99 up from 79. The first increase sense the service was introduced nine years ago. Prime offers free twoday shipping and access to thousands of streaming movies and tv shows. Amazon said those who sign up for prime in the next seven days can lock in the 79 rate. Nice to be grandfathered if you act quickly. The big question, though, is and you, david, know this company pretty well by now i do. How much do people exit
The dow futures are up 23 points above fair value. The s p futures are up by 2. 5 points and the nasdaq is up 5. 5 points. As for the markets in europe, you can see things are decidedly worse with the cac down. 70 . The dax in germany is down. 60 and the ftse is off. 30 . In the meantime, the russian micex indicated slightly higher trading higher this morning, but this comes after steep drops over recent weeks because of what was building up in the situation in ukraine. And the dollar at this point, at least in the morning, youll see this stronger across the board. Euro trading at 137. 73. And the yen is at 102. 456789 andrew, over to you. We have big Business News with apple tv a little closer to actually happening. Apple now reportedly in talks with Nbc Universal parent comcast about a streaming Television Service that would allow apple to bypass congestion on the web. The wall street journal reporting that discussions are in the early stage and there are many hurdles to cross before
The at the port of dover. Government said last night almost the government said last night almost 1000 lorries parked up on the motorway, they are driving around dover this morning with hdvs everywhere. The figure is likely to be much, much higher. And that has led to concern around food supply. Salad from italy, peppers from spain. We are all right for now, but the longer this goes on, the greater the risk. Rugby League Legend Kevin Sinfield adds his voice to calls for more research into concussion. He says its important not to make assumptions about the links between rugby league and brain injuries. Good morning, another cloudy day in the south with rain at times but still mild. In the north, colder, more sunshine, and showers. I will have the details in about ten minutes. Its tuesday, 22nd december. Our top story. The governments chief scientific adviser has warned that tougher restrictions are likely to be needed in more areas of england, to control the new variant of coronavirus.
Radical idea and a Strong Community partnership. In the recovery after the 89 earthquake and the 1990 and 1991 recession, San Francisco was facing tough times and at that time the city had a bold vision to demolish the embarcadero freeway and replace it with a surface boulevard but that wasnt good enough because we needed to serve the heart of china town so mayor willy brown and rose pack struck a brilliant compromise to agree to demolish the embarcadero freeway but build a subway into the heart of china town, connecting chinese San Francisco in the cultural heart of chinese San Francisco. But to do more than that, to revitalize the southeastern part of San Francisco, including the bay view, to connect African American and Filipino American and other populations to new emerging job centers in mission bay and all the jobs in union square and again here to china town. So, with support from Speaker Pelosi and a billion dollars of federal funding, we are almost there. Were also really grat
To be a low see and feinstein and meeting with the congressional committee. Norman went on that treat or reverend fong. Sorry. And even 20 years ago, speaker a low sew and feinstein moved this project. China town needs this lifeline. But beyond the tremendous economic benefits of central subway will have, i want to share one impact that people outside of our community see. Several years back when tan and i were doing outreach on this street, there was one merchant who pointed out something i will never forget. I said central subway was more than action he economic benefit and having the world china town printed in a citywide map that everyone would see signaled something bigger and permanent for this community and the permanent of china town is not something we can take for granted. China town survived numerous attempts the relocation. First after the great quake 60 and the threat posed by the pandemic. The central subway means as mentioned, merchant implied and china town has been and