European equities are trading, 30 minutes until the end of the friday session. Little changed on the day for the stoxx 600, which means its touch and go whether we will rise over the week. We are on track to gain for the third week, which is the best run since january 13, all these currencies are rising against the dollar today. Yields declining across europe today. It busy day for earnings. Lets get on with it, the biggest steelmaker in germany falling as much as 5. 5 earlier. The most since july. It now expects Free Cash Flow in the year through september to be negative, and earlier projection was for slightly positive figure in the current fiscal year. Shares falling despite the announcement for the fiscal profit forecast after including its operating performance and agreeing to sell its brazilian steel plant. On the matter of steel, shares the worlds steer made her steelmaker down 7. 5 after it posted firstquarter profit that double beating estimates amid a rally in steel demand. W
Foundations for a new eastwest trade route. Rishaad the weekend hackers may strike again on monday. At apples market capitalization in excess of 800 billion. If you add them up, you have a 8527,d capitalization, we are at roughly 3 trillion. Quite something. That is what we have at the moment. Some people saying these five have too much clout when it comes to soft power and real power with the amount of data they have at their disposal. The tech names pushing higher with the rest of the market treading water. On the asian agenda, some china expected, retail sales come Industrial Production, some of that expected to have ease, particularly industrial activity , painting the picture q1 was week. I want to touch on the credit data over the weekend and on friday. , credit expansion continues to push forward despite the Deleveraging Campaign from beijing that has shaken the markets. We did see these numbers coming in stronger than expected, aggregate financing expanding to just over 200 bil
First plan. And so far, green arrows on oil and stocks and we have more positive economic signs and thats giving investors more confidence. Were covering it all. Varney company is about to begin. Countries and Government Agencies are bracing for another wave of Cyber Attacks after what happened on friday. Ashley, youve got details. Ashley i do, 200,000 computers at least, the theory, because this happened late friday, as more people come back to work and fire up their computer, if that bug is in there, that ransomware, that starts a whole new wave. So far thats not the case. The u. K. , National Health service was hit hard by the bug on friday and they are reporting they dont see any new waves of attacks today. What does it do . The ransomware basically locks the computer files and a message comes up, i was reading this, saying the files will be locked and eventually destroyed unless the user sends money, via bitcoin. The other part it spreads. Once you open it up on a network, it spre
Available we are ready to roll out the project. A message to the shooters on the freeways, the reign of terror is over. Reporter there are the way cameras in san pablo and pittsburg and we asked where the other cameras to be installed, 15 hotspots have been identified but not saying beyond that. We will keep the gang members guessing where the technology is. Reporter the state has promised to fund a system of cameras, license plate readers and gunshot detectors at a cost of 1. 5 million. Innocent lives of been lost and we over to our residents to minimize the damage and the threat to the drivers and local residents. Our residents in Contra Costa County can travel in a safer mode with the camera system. Reporter at that News Conference in martinez they warn that the cameras alone will not address the violence on the freeways. Freeway shootings will continue, and we have to address the issue that cameras by themselves will not address the issues. This is part of a larger plan to address
Im a columnist at the washington post. Thank you for joining us this morning for a panel entitled Homeland Security challenges. We have a very distinguished panel with us today in first we have the former secretary of Homeland Security the honorable jeh johnson and mr. Frank cilluffo the director of the center for cyber and Homeland Security at the George Washington university my alma mater. We have congressman Kathleen Rice representing the Fourth District of new york and also the ranking democrat on the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence and last but certainly not least the honorable Kenneth Wainstein who served served as the home and security adviser to president george w. Bush. Now i have prepared an extensive introduction for todays panel but those plans were tossed in the garbage when President Trump issued a series of official statements this morning that are extremely relevant to this panel. You might also call them tweets and the tweets are directed at one of ou