News headlines. Good afternoon. Its 3 00. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this houn newsroom. Your top story this hour. The princess of wales has thanked the public for their support as the first photo of the royal was published after her Abdominal Surgery. The image, posted on social media to mark mothers day, was taken by the prince of wales in windsor earlier this week. Sitting down, princess catherine is surrounded by her children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and prince louis. She was admitted to hospital on january 16th and left two weeks later following planned operation. Shes expected to return to her royal dufies expected to return to her royal duties after easter , and Police Duties after easter, and police say an incident at Buckingham Palace is not being treated as terror related. Armed officers detained a man in the early hours of yesterday morning after a car crashed into the gates. He was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and has since be
The first time in a show of unity , and to prepare what he unity, and to prepare what he described as demolish hamas in gaza. It comes as the leader of the terrorist organisation has met with irans foreign minister in qatar, where they agreed to continue cooperation. Well, a continue cooperation. Well, a spokesperson for the idf has told has told gb news its continuing to let people in northern gaza move from their homes to safety. Homes to safety. The worst Case Scenario scenario is actually that they would stay in where we plan to conduct our operations, so they should evacuate to the south, where there is places where people can get holed up and take cover for the time being. And indeed , when we finish and indeed, when we finish and complete our operations, we will announce theyll able to announce that theyll be able to come homes. Come back to their homes. As for uk government flights carrying britons have left israel today with two more expected later. The Foreign Office is telli
And deferred stock. I am joined by laura. T does the stock surge banks really outperformed as a group, the s p 500 last year. What does this mean to the average banker . They are pretty happy today if they got a deferred stock bonus three years or five years ago. A lot more value. Years or five years ago, they were probably annoyed. Now it seems if they could hang in there, it is a pretty good deal. And a time you cannot get cash right away, you might be a little cranky. As one of our consultants said. Worth sat on it, it is 30 more. In Morgan Stanleys case, 60 more. Morgan stanley was up 60 . All of this came a little bit as a theme of the aftermath from the credit crisis, bankers are making too much and have high bonuses. The have to have skin in game. So these plants came into effect. Regulators were pushing banks to pay with stocks, they want bankers to have skin in the game and dial back risk taking. When you have more stock, there is incentive to do the smart thing. This is your
So different from the pattern ago. It says aggressive discounts won over cust mers reporting a but so engrained in the company and has been very involved with quarterly loss and the stock moving on all of these numbers. The marketing part of the turnaround. Fourth quarter in a row of seven in other words the positioning. Hes kind of an old hand, a figure gains which is mind young guy. I know they were talking earlier blowing. You got to read the release. On squawk theres never been a called the uncarrier and talking about average revenue was not procession where there was a great ceo and followed by a down, it was people looking for 49. 8. Great ceo at ford. 50 million customers they have i like fields. Well talk to bill ford at and added more new customers than the rest of the industry 11, hear from mulally at 11 30, combined. Its amazing. There was an expectation when phil lebeau is on assignment in West Hartford tweeting not just massa son from soft bank took over they would be the
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me or on facebook. A big announcement from an american icon, ford announced that the ceo will step down in july after eight years at the helm. Long time ford executive mark fields will take over in his stead. Under alans watch this man, an outsider who came on from boeing. He reinvented ford and its brand to something that means quality today. An unlike ford, detroits rivals which were forced to plea for a 63. 5 billion bailout from the take a dime from uncle sam. Im alan, im from ford, and im ready to take care of your car needs. He se corrected his reputation after becoming ceo in 2006. The year the company lost nearly 13 million. I got a call from the great grandson of henry ford, and he told me about the situation, and as you pointed out, it was pretty tough. His expertise came from 37 years at another american icon, boeing. Once at ford, he moved quickly. Mortgaged all of f