But one Russian Airline was fining its Flight Attendants, for the extra pounds around their waist, until a court intervened. Hello and welcome, im Christian Fraser in london. Michelle fleury is in for katty today in new york. A chinese banquet at the white house. The invited guests on wednesday night were the top two democrats in congress. And the takeaway well, you might call it sweet and sour. After dinner the white house told us discussions had gone very well. But what exactly did President Trump agree to and did he betray his base . After dinner the two democrats, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, put out statements. Theyd discussed they said a plan for tighter Border Security and new legislation to protect 800,000 young people brought to the United States illegally as children. The undocumented migrants are known as the dreamers. There was no discussion, they said, of funding mr trumps proposed wall along the mexican border. The republicans reacted with fury. Heres three tweets to g
Rescuers work to free children trapped under a collapsed school a 12 Year Old Girl is among those thought to be alive the debris in mexico city. These are the latest pictures as a rescue involving members of the army and hundreds of volunteers continues. Ryanair says more flights may have to be cancelled as the boss admits theres been a Significant Management failure at the airline. And calls for the fa to answer questions over its sacking of mark sampson, as england womens football coach. Our main story at five on the eve of one of the Prime Ministers most important speeches since the general election, theresa may has given the cabinet details of her address in italy, which she hopes will break the deadlock in the brexit talks. Sources have told the bbc, that the Prime Ministers florence speech tomorrow is likely to propose a transitional arrangement between the uk and the eu of up to two years after brexit. It is expected that the uk would be willing to pay into the union during that
Strong earnings beats for google parent alphabet and fellow tech giant amazon drive nasdaq futures higher in afterhours trade, after the nasdaq extends its longest winning streak since 2013. Good morning. Welcome. Youre watching street signs on cnbc. We have an hour together. Im super happy youre with us today. I have big news. Ill share that with you with Peter Oppenheimer. I know you rejigged your day a bit to say hello. Greatly appreciate it. Because today is my last day. Sorry to hear that. So we put together a packed show, and im super pleased to talk to the likes of you. Thank you. Sorry to hear youre leaving. Its been a fantastic run. 17 years. Couldnt have been better. I couldnt have asked for a better ending to it either. Well touch on some things here throughout the show. One highlights has been talking to you over the years. I think we met in poland initially . I think it was. Way back when at an event. We were talking about equity markets at that point in time. That was a c
Bloomberg daybreak europe. We start the program by looking at brexit, one year on. We mark the oneyear anniversary since the brexit about. Lets have a look at the Bloomberg Brexit parameter. This is based on proprietary indexes that have been made by bloomberg and u. K. Inflation. Economic activity and that inflation adding up, which has been deteriorating in the most recent months. The start of this brexit process. Uncertainty weighed on this index. Data was clear up the start of the one youre period, helping some of that data to bounce back. That tradeoff between growth. Nd inflation growth trend we will talk more about that in a moment. We had 3 million e. U. Residents having in the u. K. That was news out of brussels overnight. That does support the pound a little bit. 1. 27 on the pound. Here is the risk radar. A lot to talk about on the commodities story. This is where we are on the oil price. We are up, as you can see. Were a bungled as well. Wti before below 40 a barrel. Gold b
The 20,000 mark. Abigail it is down steadily. We have the three major averages all down after opening slightly higher. We will see if this will be the directional cue for the day. 20,000 has not made dow as he watched to see about happen. With the other two averages in the red we are not on record watch right now but who knows . Maybe, the day is still young. There is lots of talk about the trump train. We look at 5461. This is a chart of the di sent dow since the seven and a half year bull market. We see lots of green. This is basically the percentage moves higher in the fourth quarter. We see the fourth quarters tend to be good. There is not been a good first quarter. This may suggest if the bull market will continue, the trump train could continue into the first of 2017. They cou it could come of volatility. Speaking of volatility, nvidia shares are lower. On pace for the worst since december 1. Put out a cautious tweet citing concerns on market share competition in the data center