How will the plunging Oil Price Effect statoils earnings . Plus the first interview of the day with the chief executive. Social climbers. Twitter and linked in shares soar after beating estimates. Welcome to countdown, i am mark arden. Barton. I am manus cranny. The u. S. Nonfarm payroll figures. We infer those. In the meantime, lets give you the numbers for stat oil. They are breaking across the terminal. He will be made with me a little later. Net income for the fourth quarter. Comes in at 9 billion kroner. The key is the dividend will be flat for the first three quarters of the year. The dividend remains for the first three quarters, no change. Capital expenditure, the other key issue. The trend is the same at statoil. A Capital Expenditure program reduced. 218 billion this year. The Cost Reduction program they will lift. To 1. 7 billion. Lift that to 1. 7 billion. They will provide total cash improvements of around 5 billion. The dividend remains intact for the next three quarters.
Good morning. Welcome. You are watching the pulse. Here in london. Im guy johnson. A greek rethink and a mission to moscow. Greeces finance minister and the finest mr. Returned home to jubilant progovernment protest. Are they protests . They are a sign of embracing the government. The antibailout plan received a cool welcome in berlin yesterday as they rethink their plans to revive the economy and protect their banks. What happens next . Angela merkel and the french president friends what hol Francoise Hollande heading to moscow to push put in for a ceasefire. Hollande is going back to moscow later this evening. He is now in paris. Lets go straight to moscow were Ryan Chilcote is on the ground. What is the timeline on these talks and how do we think they will unfold . The talks have gotten pushed back. They were scheduled for 5 00 p. M. Moscow time. They are now scheduled for 6 30 p. M. As you said, the leaders are in the respective capitals the for the come there. Their aides will sit
Happen to them. So did the swiss a couple of days before they dropped their cap to the euro. A couple of interesting names that have delivered results. I sat down with the first interview with a new ceo. They say theyre keeping their dividends flat for the rest of 2015. They had a policy of growing given sinc dividends. We are not backing away from our policy and terms of a stable dividend. Capital expenditure down. Originally was 20 billion. Spending cuts up 30 . And they are sticking to that dividend as being flat. Alcatellucent on the other side of the coin. Their numbers doubles. Down in the u. S. Demand is healthy. Carriers in europe are building out, but there was some upbeat story from the cfo saying that the submarine business was up for sale. The stock is down 3. 6 . The sugar and sweetness business to open higher. Full year profits will be below the guidance they gave us in late 2014. A lot of this is to do with the sweetener business in the United States of america. They hav
Defiant and says there is no way back, and he cannot condemn the people to more pain. Russia indicates president Vladimir Putin is headed for peace talks in minsk today and a deal to negotiate a ceasefire is likely. Meanwhile officials a ringling over the degree of autonomy to give rebelheld eastern regions after nearly 10 months of fighting. French president for his wall lined and german chancellor Angela Merkel spoke earlier today and said they hope to attend a summit. President obama spoke on tuesday and hope to reaffirm ukraines territorial integrity. Brendan president obama is set to ask the congress of a for formal authorization to battle Islamic State. He wants the use of enduring Ground Forces and engagement would be limited to three years. Lawmakers of both parties are skeptical to the approach of fighting extremist militants. A bill drafted by the House Armed Services chairman would allow the credit on to spend 1 billion to help ukraines military. It would supply logistics an
And the white house tonight under fire from a liberal National Media. And it fellow democrats after declining to send a highlevel official to a massive antiterror rally in paris is weekend. Having the white house admitting that they are wrong. Taking all of this up on the program tonight. And we begin with new threats to the homeland. The u. S. Military overseas operations in the middle east. Hackers claiming the Islamic State had a socalled cyberjihad on by attacking youtube and twitter accounts. Jennifer griffin has the latest details from the pentagon. A cyberattack hit this youtube page are virtually the same time the president was making plans and remarks about the need for better cybersecurity. This is a direct threat to the Economic Security of American Families are in and we have to stop it. And if we are going to be connected, then we need to be protected. Reporter as the president spoke, the official twitter account for u. S. Central command which oversees the war in syria an