The British Engineering firm cancels plans to make an electric car. Its the era of the influencer and not just celebs with massive followings. Well get the inside track on Influencer Marketing, which is attracting billions from brands. And as hmv today opens the worlds Biggest Record store the size of 12 Tennis Courts were asking can a record store survive in the digital age . When did you last buy a vinyl lp or cd . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and a warm welcome to worklife, our new business show, and we start with the gender pay 93p its no secret that a gulf remains in many parts of the world, between men and women on pay and career progression. Today marks the uns International Day of the girl which aims to highlight challenges faced by girls around the world and promote ways in which they can become more empowered. One area that clearly needs addressing is the imbalance between what men and women earn. Its estimated that the worlds gender pay gap last year w
Bob iger is about to join us as disney buys a big chunk of 21st century fox. Retail sales up 0. 8. But we know what the lead is today. Yep, we finally got the deal weve been talking about now for more than a month, of course disney buying those fox assets that weve detailed time and again over this last, lets call it, five weeks or so since we first brought the story to you of the talks between the two it is a large deal, to say the least. Depends on how you want to value the equity right now, at current prices, and if you take into the considerations that minority interests, its about 55 billion in equity. Some 515 million shares of disney will be exchanged for the fox businesses that are going to be sold to disney. Were talking about a deal with an enterprise value of 69 billion. Theyll take on 14 billion worth of debt. Tax liability which i finally got clarity on, 8. 5 billion to fox. That is the spinco, could come down as a result of tax reform, the lower tax rate and that will hav
15 rebound over the past three days. Orl 2018 bring more gains the traditional new york new year hangover . This or market focus on news of a trump tax gain . We are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. Lets take a look at where we stand and what we will be doing. Lets take a look at the fair value calculations around europe. The london market looks at it will open in positive territory. It looks as if we will see some weakness coming through in some of the continental markets. That is what the bloomberg is kicking out. Lets show you what is happening on the gmm. The gmm is interesting in terms of what it will be showing us. Lets talk about why china sold off this morning, that was interesting. The rest of asia had a positive session but china was down at the close by 1. 5 on the 300. It was interesting to see the consumer end of the spectrum. Also showing signs of weakness. The chinese currency on the move overnight to keep an eye out what is happening. Lets
Of Amazon Studios, roy price, resigns over allegations of sexual harassment. Well find out later how much wages are going up, but with prices now rising at their fastest rate in five years it means were all likely to feel a bit worse off. In sport, the biggest away win for an english club in Champions League history. 7 0 for liverpool. Manchester city win too, while spurs draw with reigning champions real madrid. Andy carroll has the weather. Good morning. Rain today across south Eastern England. For the rest of us, quite a bit of cloud around, but equally there will be sunny spells as well. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The nhs is failing to meet Key Performance targets in hospitals across the uk according to a major analysis of data by the bbc. The research looked at how often Health Organisations achieved targets for Cancer Treatment, accident and emergency, and planned operations. It found that nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland ha
Kill vehicle to maneuver itself into the path of the icbm, aiming to destroy it by the sheer force of the impact, a bullet hitting a bullet. The pentagon said that the kill vehicle intercepted and destroyed the target in a direct collision. 36 interceptors are based in silos in california and alaska, but this was the first test against a missile traveling at the trajectory and speed of an icbm, a weapon which could threaten the u. S. Mainland with a nuclear warhead. North korea continues developing shorterrange missiles, and its leader, kim jong un, has announced he intends to launch an icbm sometime this year. Before this latest test, the Missile Defense system had a track record of nine successful intercepts in 17 tries against other types of missiles. Despite that modest record, general lori robinson, the head of Northern Command which operates the Missile Defense system assured congress it would work. I am extremely confident of our capability to deecfend the United States of ameri