Taxes. The obr is likely to lower the estimate of how much room he has, and that is probably an over estimate anyway. So he has very little space. He could opt for different things. It looks like hes going to concentrate more on their household than all businesses, therefore two major taxes, one is income tax, other is National Insurance contribution. Income tax is our broader tax and it would cost him more money whereas National Insurance contribution focuses on people at work and would cost him a little bit less. Having a bit less money to play with, like that give as a clearer sense of the conservative priorities here because we know there might be an election coming . It is actually who that money goes to, where they want to target votes . That who that money goes to, where they want to target votes . Want to target votes . That is a very aood want to target votes . That is a very good question want to target votes . That is a very good question because want to target votes . That
That company is the saudio oil giant saudi aramco, and its feeling the effects of lower oil prices, lower than expected demand from china, and thinner Profit Margins for refining oil. Between april and june, the company made a Profit Ofjust over 30 billion, lot of money by anyone s metric, but significantly down from more than the 48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russias invasion of ukraine wore off. And last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine Million Barrels a day. That extended Production Cuts by the 0pec group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. When it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher Dividend Payments for shareholders, and its boosted those to nearly 30 billion in the current period. So i put it to our middle east Business Cor
[000 01 04;00] there is a big game on the air, stubborn fighting continues in ukraine, ukrainian missiles and drones are flying, fortunately, almost all of them were shot down, without any serious damage, but there are also alarming signals, in this case not in terms of the results of the ukrainian offensive, but plan. Lets listen to what us secretary of state Antony Blinken just said. In the end, the decision on how to use these weapons, where to use them, is a decision that ukraine itself must make. It is in kyiv that they should to decide how best to defend their country, how best to return the lands of occupied russia, we leave it to their discretion. Our position is to neither encourage nor permit. Ukraine, but by and large these decisions should be made by ukraine . By and large , this decision should be made by ukraine. Well, one can understand this position. But tell us dmitry drozdenko, editor inchief of the internet magazine arsenal of the fatherland and leading military expe
The German Economy boosting 2. 2 . 2. 3 for 2017 , but it came in at 2. 2 . An impact on your dollar, one. 1939 1. 1939. We had a little volatility over the last couple days. Markets we are hoping will grow worldwide, and tend to focus on earnings. Today, we will talk a lot about that. Of 48le bit of zigzagging hours. Yield at 2. 54. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance. , talking with a leader from armstrong, and another guest bolus act oldish expectations. Ceo frank del rio. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. A reportina has claiming officials are reviewing the countrys Foreign Exchange holdings, recommending selling or holding purchases of the u. S. Treasury, might have quoted a wrong source. The state administration of Foreign Exchange said we think a report might have had wrong sources or may have fake news. There was a report that it wasnt clear whether the recommendation was adopted. U. S. President donald trump has agreed that america and north ko
Only the second, since the end of the fiveweek shutdown brought on by the debt crisis. Bank shares were pushed to the downward trading limit yesterday of 30 . One analyst said the bailout will not work if greek banks do not bounce back. The greek Banking System is key to getting them back. They have to recapitalize the major banks quickly and they have major problems with their nonperforming. Once you get the greek banks of an lending, there is no hope for the plan to succeed. Erik in the bleak financial picture, the Central Bank Says almost 1. 3 billion has flowed academic countries bank since reopened two weeks ago. Scheier is making an offer in hopes of creating a Biotech Company focused on rare diseases. The price of the about the billion dollars and scheier says that represents premium of 36 and values the target company at more than 45 a share. No deal on the horizon right now and shire it spun off from baxter and they are not talking about the proposal. John cleary is in singapo