And the careers being stopped before theyve even begun the number of apprentices made redundant during the pandemic was two thirds higher than in 2019. Hello and welcome to bbc news, im annita mcveigh. We begin today with further promising news this morning about a third vaccine. The oxford Coronavirus Vaccine shows a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s, raising hopes that it can protect age groups most at risk of illness from the virus. Researchers say the phase two findings, based on 560 healthy adult volunteers, are encouraging. The outcome of trials into whether the vaccine actually stops people developing covid 19 in larger, phase three trials is expected in the coming weeks. The uk has already ordered 100 million doses of the oxford vaccine, a0 million doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine and five million of the moderna vaccine. If successful, the oxford vaccine is expected to be easier to manufacture on a worldwide scale than the other two, and oxford and astra
Today pushed the Dow Jones Industrial average into positive territory for the year, up by a fraction but still on the plus side. But words of warning after the close from one of those dow stocks could temper the tone of trading tomorrow. Cisco systems is the closely watched tech bellwether company and on its earnings conference call, the ceo issued disappointing Earnings Guidance and announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs. As for its quarterly results, the computer networking equipment maker posted earnings of 55 cents a share, two cents more than estimates and revenues came in better than expected even though they were basically flat from a year ago as the Company Faces tough demand for its new line of highend switches and routers. Cisco shares initially rose but then reversed course on those comments from the conference call. Cisco along with several other u. S. Tech giants has always looked at china for feature growth but now doing business with beijing is becoming more difficult and one
Industrial average into positive territory for the year, up by a fraction but still on the plus side. But words of warning after the close from one of those dow stocks could temper the tone of trading tomorrow. Cisco systems is the closely watched tech bellwether company and on its earnings conference call, the ceo issued disappointing Earnings Guidance and announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs. As for its quarterly results, the computer networking equipment maker posted earnings of 55 cents a share, two cents more than estimates and revenues came in better than expected even though they were basically flat from a year ago as the Company Faces tough demand for its new line of highend switches and routers. Cisco shares initially rose but then reversed course on those comments from the conference call. Cisco along with several other u. S. Tech giants has always looked at china for feature growth but now doing business with beijing is becoming more difficult and one of ciscos biggest challeng
Helps and a strong stock rally today pushed the Dow Jones Industrial average into positive territory for the year, up by a fraction but still on the plus side. But words of warning after the close from one of those dow stocks could temper the tone of trading tomorrow. Cisco systems is the closely watched tech bellwether company and on its earnings conference call, the ceo issued disappointing Earnings Guidance and announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs. As for its quarterly results, the computer networking equipment maker posted earnings of 55 cents a share, two cents more than estimates and revenues came in better than expected even though they were basically flat from a year ago as the Company Faces tough demand for its new line of highend switches and routers. Cisco shares initially rose but then reversed course on those comments from the conference call. Cisco along with several other u. S. Tech giants has always looked at china for feature growth but now doing business with beijing is
Today pushed the Dow Jones Industrial average into positive territory for the year, up by a fraction but still on the plus side. But words of warning after the close from one of those dow stocks could temper the tone of trading tomorrow. Cisco systems is the closely watched tech bellwether company and on its earnings conference call, the ceo issued disappointing Earnings Guidance and announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs. As for its quarterly results, the computer networking equipment maker posted earnings of 55 cents a share, two cents more than estimates and revenues came in better than expected even though they were basically flat from a year ago as the Company Faces tough demand for its new line of highend switches and routers. Cisco shares initially rose but then reversed course on those comments from the conference call. Cisco along with several other u. S. Tech giants has always looked at china for feature growth but now doing business with beijing is becoming more difficult and one