Ready hello, im Darren Jordan dough. With a quick reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera democrats in the United States will retain control of the senate operate close mid term election victory in nevada. Catherine cortez musto defeated. Her republican opponent adam black salt, was endorsed by donald trump to fight. But shortly after the nevada result was announced, the u. S. President reacted to the democrat when i tell you was congratulations, senator schumer, hes got a majority again and were focusing now on on georgia. Feel good about where we are. And i know im a cockeyed optimist. I understand it from the beginning, but im not surprised by the turn out. Im incredibly, please turn it in. I think its a reflection of the quality of our candidates and the theyre all running on the same program when anybody was running on what we did all stay in sticky with. So i feel good. Im looking forward to a couple years. My kind of has more now from washington d. C. In these mid term el
With on korea johnson in doha, the top stories here on al jazeera ukraine is celebrates, and one of its most significant victories since russias invasion in february, Ukrainian Forces have entered the Southern City of creston o residence, welcome. The soldiers on the ukrainian flag has been raised on public monuments. President brown, mass lensky has held it as an historic day ushers. Retreat has been seen as one of its biggest setbacks of the war. I, with valor is in moscow. He says, russian officials are down playing the withdrawal. The russian minister of defense confirmed that the last russian soldier left the city of her son by 5 a. M. Friday morning, after a night of heavy bombardment by Russian Artillery and other defences against ukrainian positions in an attempt to prevent them from getting closer or disrupting that withdrawal. And later in that they thought mr. Defense gave some more details, saying that 30000 russian Soldiers Left the city of crafts on people escaping m 23 r
The longest losing streak. Strangely enough, something to do with profitability. Analysts are raising their profits above those cutting their outlook. It is eas versus sinceor the first time 2012. Mario draghi meets his cohorts on the political side this weekend. Draghis message to european politicians, step up to the plate and back the program. Some risk. Assume the ecb cannot do the heavy lifting all on its own in terms of monetary policy. Lloyds is demonstrating a little bit of a bounce back. Equity markets are rising a quarter of a percent. There are a couple of interesting stocks. We have a few deals. And gas assets for one and a quarter billion dollars. They have said they are in preliminary talks. That has been going on for several months. There is a deal to be done. The stock to open. Airlines is definitely a feature. You have the baggage strike. Unchanged. T aircraft the ceo said the strike could between 10 to 15 Million Euros per day. Those are some individual stocks. It. Me
Commuters, but the earnings may be tough this morning. Futures as you can see are mixed as have the averages been over the past several days. The tenyear note a touch higher than it was at this time yesterday. And as for europe some mild weakness in the uk and in spain. Our roadmap this morning goes, well start with coach. Shares of the luxury goods maker down big in the premarket after samestore sales in north america plunges 13 year on year. And ibm is not looking too good. Down on earnings. The tech giant reporting revenue below estimates for the Fourth Quarter in a row and due to weakening demand in part in emerging markets. A lot of people facing a nasty commute after a massive winter storm dumped over a foot of snow across the northeast. Left temperatures hovering near zero. Well go live on the ground to see just how bad things are in a moment. But first up, coach reporting weakerthanexpected fiscal Third Quarter results and comps down 13. 6, and it said its been hurt by substant