This last sunday of april. Welcome to mornings on 2 everyone. Its sunday, april 26th. Im mike mibach. Good morning. Im claudine wong. Lets start off on this sunday with a quick look at the weather. Rosemary, the rain, when it went away yesterday i thought ok, it might take a little while to warm up but turned out to be a nice day. It was. A little breezy for some but we cleared out nicely and temperatures warmed into the 60s, a few low 70s. Today were warmer. We have a mini heat coming for today and back to work monday. Right now the sun is shining bright. No fog to speak of out there. A little bit a little bit, trying to form along the coastline and that is about it. We will be mostly sunny for today. Look at Storm Tracker 2, the rain has moved out. Were watching just that final bit of moisture over the sierra last night, that moved on in the overnight hours as well. The winds in the hills, a little breezy but you can see here where we reside, generally light, we have fairfield at 9 M
From leadership. United states and japan decide chinas selfdeclared air defense zone and fly right through it without telling beijing. Nhps turn around efforts bearing fruits shares after hours as the Company Beats sales amid enterprise business. A warm welcome to todays show. Advancers outpace decliners on the dow jones 600 by a ratio of 6 to 3, 3 to 2, in other words. We had a very, very flat close for u. S. Equity markets last night. The nasdaq closing above 4,000. So the ftse at the moment, this morning, is just up 14 points. The xetra dax is up 13 points. But were back at this alltime high, level above 9,3 let you know. Cac 40 is up 0. 11 and the ftse mib up 0. 5 . A number of individual stocks worth looking at this morning. Lets kick off with accor. Stock down 3 at the moment. The company essentially coming out and saying, look, were going to split ourselves into two bess. One thats going to be Running Hotels and the other one we will keep holding lease holds on that, as well. So
The has accused the us of distorting the facts. This report on child abuse saying it had not taken into account the many changes introduced to protect children. Un committee on the rights of the child accused the Roman Catholic church of adopting policies that allow priests to children with impunity the report was drawn up after a landmark hearing last month between human rights experts and senior members of the chair. Roses has promised to take action on child abuse is in the catholic church. Me weeks ago it was revealed that new ti ful hundred priests had been dismissed in the last two years because of suspected molestation of children. The Church Policy is to investigate the allegations in tennessee the un Committee Says thats not good enough. Im not an activist a code of silence that was imposed by the attacks on children youth and the fact that according to National Enforcement authorities has never been made compulsory. The un report estimates the number of victims in the tens of
Mobiles messaging firm whatsapp. Its facebooks biggest deal to date as shares stay lower in frankfurt. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Youre looking at a live shot that were bringing to you from kiev, the capital of ukraine. We have breaking news for you, dow jones reporting that the eu Foreign Ministers have canceled their meeting with the ukraine leader. That is according to one official. They had set up that meeting yesterday after we saw those very violent clashes, the death toll according to the Health Ministry now above 28. All right. Lets take a look at european markets. Were a little more than an hour into the trading day and we are seeing a lot of red across the board. The stoxx europe 600 steady, down by 0. 8 . It is a triple whammy for the markets. We had the fed memberships in support of more tapering. Some members talking about an earlier than expected tightening. Then we have the china flash pmi numbers at a s
Will be out in a half hour, a much has been made about the dependence on ecommerce. They still have a lot to do on improving the experience. Julie hyman has more on this. Part of the problem is a lot like what we do in the stores we are browsing online. Except we do it at a higher rate. Forrester research put out a report looking he looking at the name reason why people abandon their ecart. They say shipping and handling is too high. Theyre just not ready to purchase for whatever reason. I spoke to a Retail Consulting group yesterday, and there are a lot of reasons your online, cries,ne rings, the baby whatever it may be, and you do not get back to it. Also, 22 wanted to compare prices. Saysee something, and you maybe i can get it cheaper somewhere else. Piecee of that shipping we have seen an increase in the number of transactions that offer free shipping. Amazon has been aggressive on that front and set the standard. Other ecommerce sites have followed suit. In terms of why people ar