It would be good to go back, just for things to come full circle for me and get a bit of closure and end up with something good, something positive as well. Melania trump accepts damages and an apology from the publisher of the daily mail over allegations about her work as a professional model. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Police in germany believe the three explosions which hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund Football Team, were directly targeting the club. Local media reports the police are investigating an islamic link to the incident after a letter was found near the blast sight. But police have yet to confirm the validity of the letter. The team were on their way to its Champions League match against monaco. One player has undergone surgery after the blast shattered windows on the coach. Jane Frances Kelly reports. Forensic teams have spent the night examining the blast site. Three devices in what police described as a targeted attack exploded as the players bu
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Desperate luminary aprils preliminary university of michigan sentiment. David welcome back to the program. Is it as good as he makes it out to be . So far. I havent been through the full release. The Biggest Surprise coming from trading, whenever they have a big beat like that, that is the first place i look. Fixed income coming in betterthanexpected. Growth came up 17 yearoveryear. Analysts expected trading to be down and was actually a bit higher. Long growth came in around 9 . Trading, weok at focus on the Net Interest Margins. The industry statistics have shown a big slowdown. Question andk the there wasnt a solid answer as to why the industry was showing slowdown. Some of the regional banks have been sing that theyve been saying Slower Growth saying that theyve been seeing Slower Growth as well. David it is tapering off somewhat. Yes. Last year, a lot of the growth came from mortgages. Holding more mortgages on your book. Where investors are focusing this quarter is the slowdown i
To 3 1 2 percent market. So its all parts of the business growing towards that Group Operating margin target. When you lay out the targets on, it sounds like work still needs to be done despite a good recovery. This is perhaps some of the concern with Share Holders when it comes to the booker deal. Why are you so convinced this is the right deal and the right price . What i first say is the booker deal is on top of the ambition we set out. 3. 5 to 4 is in the existing plans. Thats what were focused on now. What the booker merger gives us a chance to bring Significant Growth into the business. Involves food, the heart of what we do at tesco. And what well bring with booker merger is a better more competitive offer to customers in the uk. In that sense theres a growth opportunity, delivered food service which together with booker we can really make good Growth Prospect in that part of the market. Yet in this letter coming from schroeder, one of your top shareholders, they outline that te
Good mornings. Warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Good morning to you. Great to have you with us. Lets get straight to the Global Market action. A lot of news to break down. U. S. Futures are pointing to a higher open, this after stocks did close lower in yesterdays trade. Geopolitical worries casting a shadow over stocks. We did see bonds rally. The cbo volatility index hitting the highest level since november, thats before the election. As you can see, dow jones up about 25 points. Nasdaq indicating a higher open by. Bo 8. Yields picking tier yesterday, off slightly, just off 2. 3 , yielding 2. 29. I think the big takeaway this week is twe could expected biggr declines in the market, we didnt get it, so resilience. Some data out of asia. Chinas consumers prices rose 0. 9 , slightly below forecast. The Producer Price index rose 0. 3 , month over month. In general, all of that data was in line. We have seen japan and shanghai decline today. Jap