Of england as it considers the grand distortion. Will get a view on what is happening on the u. K. We will work our way through this show. We saw a big stock rally, and at imf telling ushe the growth story is pretty bleak. The singaporeans telling us they need to get back into crisis mode. Hans it captures what is going on up there. Some people are saying steady as it goes them we see the capacity of a single bank saying lets intervene. We could potentially have a a currencyr or conversation. And all that gets you excited. Guy you have to find something to get excited about. Equity markets probably not going to provide that. Yet, a huge rally for jp morgan. Expectations pretty low. On quarter quarter and beat expectations, but it was still down. This talk about we start morning, this is how the numbers look. Similar picture, it is thursday that means a bunch of stocks going dividend in london. Just be aware of that. That is called at the level stronger the most than most. Unsurprising
Youre looking at the cac, and the dax up as well. Lets take a look at crude before we get to merger monday or unmerger monday. The wti trading at 4 45. 63. Halliburton and baker hughes scrapping a deal, following opposition from european and u. S. Antitrust regulators. It would have combined the second and Third Largest Oil Services Company and it raised concern it would result in higher prices. Last month, the Justice Department filed a law suit to stop the deal. And as a result, halliburtons going to pay baker hughes a 3. 5 billion breakup fee. I guess you could argue both sides of this, andrew. We know events, its already happening, 7 increase in the price of oil back to h45. The industry will come back, and at that time you have a powerful anticompetitive. Potentially. But in the meantime, it obviously made a lot of sense for both companies to try to pool their resources in such a tough period. And i just wonder, you know, its a fine line to draw, depending on whos president and wh
Good morning. What do we have . One off your and put lycra. Golf. G is the new we will talk about that. Lets get to the top story. European leaders are there for the job summit. They want to lower the jobless rate across the euro zone and the meeting coincides with the parliament and the labor reforms that include making it easier to fire people and the more complicated bits will happen later. He promises that the changes will be sweeping and swift. Go to the discussions with our European Partners. Structural reforms are the most ambitious ever conceived in italy. Dan joins us now. Lets start with the summit. Lowexpectations seem to be right now. What are we going to get . Fair points. He recognizes that and does not want to have a misstep. What he is going to do is divide the complicated package into pieces. Outlineseing the broad of the measures to change the labor market and includes things like welfare and unemployment system spec give incentives to companies to hire workers. The m
Welcome to countdown. It is just 6 00 here in london. Coming up, the Israeli Basketball Team with big plans for cracking america. How they are making a play for the big time. Our top story, democracy protest in hong kong luck to streets and divided the city for the two months and it is coming to an end. Baliffs have moved in the last remitting site. Live from hong kong with the details. This hour,nd that at 6 00 here in london, and this hour has been targeted as a key deadline for the protesters in hong kong. Yes, where Hearing Police that now announcing protesters and others who should not be in the area should be leaving immediately. They have announcing this at regular intervals for the last hour. They said able start clearing this site very soon, maybe in the next five minutes. What has happened today is that part of the protest site was covered by an injunction in that part was cleared this morning by some people who are authorized by the company to do so and they were watched by
Did mention, you brought out your customer problems with our banks and i think that given that the statute that i referenced allowed only temporary exemptions, do you believe it is time that those involved in these type of real estate transactions should be required to implement u. S. AntiMoney Laundering programs . Asthings such as the virtual word we need to think about this in order to preclude dirty money from entering the system. Anything that moves in terms of hiding money criminals and terrorists are very good at trying to circumvent our measures. Ms. Waters i suppose you are aware of the extensive article that was done about the Time Warner Center and it is absolutely startling to take a look at the purchase of those properties and who is buying them and how it operates. I think that this information is very instructive. And it should cause us to want to take a closer look about what we do about these kind of real estate transactions. Thank you. I held back. Mr. Williams i have