The shanghai up by half a percentage point in europe in some of the early trading right now we are seeing things a little bit mixed across the board. Ftses hanging in there up by. 10 of a percent. They are seeing pull backs by the dax down and the cac off by 1 3 of a percentage oint. Crude oil prices on a climb again last week where oil was up by just over 1. 10 this morning wti back 1 cent i take that back, its unchanged at 56. 74 lets tell you whats going on couple stories were watching this morning couple big ones. General electric is going to announce a major restructuring is going to happen today ge will focus on three or four units, aviation, power, health care ge is planning to shed its majority stake in oil and gas operator baker hughes. Remember that big bet that shedding . Shedding. Shedding. Like skin. John flannery expected to announce the changes at a meeting. Theyre getting out of it he got into it, now hes getting out of it. You build it up and you take it down were goin
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. It is Triple Threat thursday. Good global event create time oil in the market. A new generation of robots hitting the Factory Floor. A Factory Helping Manufacturers prepare for the future. It is a thursday, everyone. Good morning, asia, hello, world. We start off the programme with the us dollar dropping seven week low to what some are calling Triple Threat thursday and it will indeed be a busy day with plenty to make traders edgy. Sacked fbi Directorjames Comey gives a testimony to the Senate Committee and the European Central bank deciding on Interest Rate policy and of the uk is waiting in its general election that will choose a government that will steer it through brexit. What will it mean to the pound and the euro . I asked an expert if these global events are likely to have significant impact. The fact the Trump Administration has managed to get nothing through in its legislative agenda is starting to see this tru
Francine this is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lakhdar in london. Joined by the chief Investment Officer. We will speak exclusively for the provincial ceo. We will be joined in the studio in 35 minutes. Just after those earnings come on. In the meantime, a lot going on in markets. Tensions surrounding the korean and insula. Korean peninsula. A little selloff in asia, in little cellophane european stocks. Down from 0. 2 . I am looking at the Dollar Strengthening the day before the u. S. Inflation data. That is what we will be focusing on. Oil advancing and looking at the 110. S, again, the fix and deck skinning a touch. Lets get to a first word news. Nejra south korea and japan have warned north korea it faces a strong response if it carries through with the threat to launch a missile towards the u. S. Territory of guam. It comes after the regime outlined plans to hit the island after trumps comments about releasing fire and. Kenya sliding to a political crisis following allegatio
Good afternoon, one of the exciting things for the day and exciting moment and i have the honor of serving as the dean of school of Public Health, for all of you that are here for this exciting afternoon, im thrilled, welcome you. And also thrilled not to stand in the way of a great conversation, and so, im delighted to introduce our moderator, wellknown to all of you, im sure, michael, the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. Michael. Great. [applause] im michael and my job as moderator host today is basically to introduce chelsea and devi talk 20, 25 minutes and let you guys ask question and i sit and have a whole back and forth with them and i say now its time to go to reception and have some wine and thats my main job. Before i do my main job, i just want to say a couple of quick things, three quick things about this terrific book. First thing i want to say, as youll hear, im sure, this book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations aroun
It is a self reversal from the president pted from barack obama, who voluntarily released more than 6 Million White House visitor records, even as his administration fought successfully in federal court for the right to keep some of that information secret. Host we have got some calls coming in. First, lets go to carol calling from san diego, california on the republican line. What is on your mind, carol . Caller i am sorry, that was not what i was calling about. Host by all means, go right ahead. Caller i think the fact that they are a limiting prescriptions by people who are in real need, like in california, you only get a sevenday prescription, it is absurd. A have to really need have these renewals over and over again. Last year, i was at kaiser, and i was going on vacation, and i had to take a prescription, and low and behold, they cut it in half because of the new restrictions relative to opiates. On vacation and we are on the border country, so there are a lot of Illegal Drugs c