Introduce your relationships on behalf of veterans. Creams in the appeals process, not necessarily sent to the board, but theyre still in dba because that is where the majority of the claim said. Weve got a laundry list of initiatives. Automation initiatives, staffing initiatives and the like that we ask cube within the context of the resources weve got. He may or may not recall when i came in on the 24th of july and said we need 17. 6 billion. There is actually 360 million for vba for us to be able to hires that for nonrating claims appeals and fiduciary. It is still Personnel Research institute press. Is there any room to begin to look at how we assign presumptions based on an mos or where somebody was deployed. Theyre submissive that right now. Catoctin here before the number one benefit application being hearing loss and can we increase presumptions based on an mos perhaps as a way thats a good question. I dont know which the extent that has been out. The last to bring to your atte
The fighting comes after a week of egyptian talks. It seems very much this is yet another development with a very fragile situation and locals certainly plunged into uncertainty. As to whether or not we are back to square one, it is difficult to tell. Its definitely a resumption of hostilities as has been feared by everyone. Israeli now, the premise ran his minister of defense said every thing remains on the table and should rockets be fired from gaza, they reminded everyone operations going into its fifth week was not over yet. Troops were ready to act if required to do so and that is precisely what they have done with the palestinian enclaves to the north and familiar scenes are being played out with dozens of families fleeing from their homes. To youll be heading back and shelters and bomb shelters havingen opened after been closed in several cities. It seems like where you are in israel, what can we ask backed the diplomatic moves to be in cairo . Its very complicated at this point
And two german giants report earnings. We will report the numbers as they come. Welcome to countdown, i am mark barton. Also coming up, almost a Million Dollar tribute to the late marvin gaye. And the late lawsuit. Net income falling 17 . Seems to be below estimates. Analysts expecting a drop. Earnings before taxes, down 1. 9 . 905 Million Dollars. Analysts were estimating 94 mine dollars. What is important is the projections for 2015. The company has confirmed the forecast for 2016. They will pay a final dividend of 85 euros. Those are the headlines. Stay with us. Later this hour, i will check with the chief executive. The strongest euro in a dozen years. Concerns about corporate earnings. Ftse 100 fell 2. 5 , pulled it down by commodities stocks. The swiss market was not hit as hard. It was buoyed by the news at Credit Suisse. Lets focus on Credit Suisse . A bank in transition. The new man at the top will be the announcement of his replacement had an immediate and positive effect on
Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua is off today. We begin with the mega oil deal. Shell has agreed to buy bg group for around 47 billion pounds around 70 billion in cash and stocks. That makes it the biggest deal in the oil and gas industry for at least a decade. Caroline hyde joins us at the touchscreen. Caroline a cool 47 billion pounds. A cool 50 premium on bgs share price. This is record data in terms of size of move, but if you go back, it is only since july 2014 when we last saw this price on bg group. That was the amount that the oil prices plummeted dragging down the price of oil stocks. Suddenly, everything looks a little bit fairer valued. That is what has capitalized this deal to spark the Biggest Energy deal in a decade. Suddenly, assets look well priced. Creating the secondBiggest Energy company in the world this would be the biggest player in the ftse 100. It will have sheer size and scale. Interestingly, shell saying, we will build a company with three pillars. They are goi
Anna flights over france are cut at a plant air Traffic Controller strike that could affect aircraft space for r 48 hours. Mark welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Investors pushing to a fresh sevenyear high today and trading from mainland investors are growing to a record. The surging chinese tech scares tech shares is making the day of the. Com bubble look mild. We will bring you the latest in just a couple of minutes. First up, oil here in europe today and what could be the biggest deal in more than a decade or the Energy Sector. Shell makes a 46 billion pound approach for gas producer bg group. Caroline, you have more on this possible deal. Hi caroline as you said, this could be the industrys biggest deal for a decade. This could create the secondbiggest Energy Producer in the world. It would be behind just exxon leaping over chevron in terms of size. And in fact, it could be the biggest gas producer in the entire world. These are the statistics that we are looking at, and as y