for your thoughts thank you fox wagon and ford will join forces as they develop new technologies the two companies are set to unveil details of a deeper alliance at the detroit motor show next week sources close to that has been say the carmakers are hoping to fend of rivals in electric autonomy driving among them software companies like google another reason for working together the continuing trade for each of us between the united states the european union and china by going forward have said in the past that any alliance would not involve a merger. for more on the story let s bring in early bards our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange only what are they getting out of this. well they re getting out of this the ability to pool their resources and make a go of it with more research and development capacity firing power if you will
of schools blocked by students against the reforms that he made to the educational system. alison. make or break time for macron. let s see how the speech goes tonight. jim, thank you. let s get a check of cnn business. global stocks are down. continuing trade tensions in asia with the nikkei down 2%. shanghai down 1%. the hang seng down 1%. the dax in germany is down 1%. we are seeing the ftse in london down a bit and cac in paris is off about .50%. on wall street, futures are down after heavy selling on friday. worries about the trade war with china capping off the week for wall street. the nasdaq closed down 3% and the s&p 500 fell 2%. the dow fell over 1,100 points just that week last week.