Good evening. Fresh airstrikes and clashes are threatening the fragile ceasefire in syria. That was a deal struck tween moscow and washington, seen very much as a last chance at ending the fiveyear war. Lateruce is set to expire today, but russia says it is ready to push for a 72 hour extension. The syrian observatory for human rights says two children are monks those killed today following airstrikes. There are reports of rocket fire and shelling in rebel areas east of the capital of damascus. They u. N. Is calling for the way to be cleared so that aid can reach aleppo, where 250 thousand civilians are currently under siege. a convoy of trucks carrying food and medicine. But the delivery of humanitarian aid remains stalled for the moment. For the past three days drivers have been waiting in the bumper zone set up by the syrian authorities. We carried corn, sometimes we carry aid material. Right now im carrying engine parts. We leave the goods and a place we call no mans land. Syrian T
We have our special programming on the backdrop. It really is a market looking for a bid. It wasnt a good day yesterday, but you really wonder where the markets will be when we hear the statement from the fed this afternoon. Francine it will be interesting to see whether they link the markets to the real economy, but first lets get to the first word news. Vonnie thank you. The leaders of an armed group in oregon have been arrested in a violent traffic stop. Among those now in custody, the leader ayman bundy. Amon bundy. They were stopped by fbi agents. Shooting broke out in one of the protesters was killed, another wounded. Irans president Hassan Rouhani goes to france after a twoday business trip to italy. He is expected to meet with Francois Hollande and sign a deal to buy more than 100 planes from airbus. Italy and the European Commission has agreed on a plan to help banks unload bad debt. Italy will work with european regulators, but some are concerned it could constitute illegal s
The apple and google story plus also what is going on with the alpha that story. The factng in terms of that one has overtaken the other. That is going to be interesting. Ubs, interesting, not that interesting. The comparative with deutsche is interesting. Jonathon profit up 11 . Switch it up again, move it on. We are talking about google and the potential of that company taking on the market cap of apple. It was that energy was going to suffer and tech was the future. This time around, look at google versus apple. Is the story that apple has lost value. Amazing. Complete turnaround. Guy why is the Market Making that decision . Is it an innovation . The future will actually be the one generating the topline growth and apple will suffer. Where does the revenue come from . We can discuss that over the next 90 minutes. Let us corporate Caroline Hyde. Caroline senator ted cruz of texas has one bank the Iowa Republican caucus in an upset over donald trump. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders
Properties around the periphery of europe. Lets nip into some of the individuals. Rocking the iphones in china. Selling more in china than the United States. Lets go back to some of these numbers. He basically said he was cautious. On the consumer side, they are doing quite well. The United States of america with a huge budget. What a storm he said of numbers. They are spending 2 billion on research. They really dont like the language they are seeing. Dollar yen is so flat. We are waiting for the bank of japan. The consensus is they wont go for any more movement. Will they go for more negative Interest Rates . 24 hours to go. When you flip that board, we got the open down. A big move after profits surged. Plenty of bond news as well. The october 2016 note yield falls below zero for the first time. Let me take it back to corporates. The big earnings story came from the other side of the atlantic. It was a huge quarter for apple. Profit rising 33 , led by big iphone sales. They have give
Reports. Welcome to countdown. Manus coming up, i sit down with a veteran in the kipling suites at one of the most exclusive hotels in the heart of marburg. Mark breaking news from the mp of the biggest and in france, a surprise increase in firstquarter profits,. Net income rose to 1. 6 5 billion euros, up from 1. 4 billion. Bloomberg spoke to the cfo about the numbers. It stems from good performance in our specialized businesses. That coupled with positive jobs means our revenue is outpacing our cost. Lets not forget that it contributed to the acquisition last year. We were a leader in france, germany poland these contribute us well. The main thing is if you look at cip, they contributed to the Exchange Rate an increase of 13 , 15 . All stemming from business demand, both on high transactional volume and growth in europe. Do you foresee that this recovery is going to be sustainable . There has been a good demand this quarter, so businesses up and from a Strong Quarter last year i woul