Happy president s day if you are joining us from the United States. Good afternoon. Anna edwards, good afternoon. There you go. Stoxx 600 up for a second consecutive day, the highest level since december. It will be a quieter day today because of the president s day holiday. No chart shows a better story, no two day chart shows a better. Tory 143 billion, that was the bid put on the table for unilver from kraft heinz. The shares surged 13 on friday. The biggest gain ever, a record. Or unilver today, shares fell 9 . Kraft heinz walking away. Sixceo of unilver had months to put his ship in order because takeovers to debate that kraft cannot come back for six months. s defenses were not formidable, such as low Stock Ownership by management. Credibility may take a hit Going Forward. That is an interesting angle. Rbs shares up to a oneyear high after it said it would scrap its planned sale of its Consumer Banking division. Investors are optimistic today. The rbs is closer to resolving these
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Care plans. Ceo Mark Bertolini will discuss what it will take for his company to return. And ron howard will join us here at the New York Stock Exchange to discuss his new film and the state of hollywood today. He is the kind of director who has done something that somebody in every generation seems to love. I remember watching him on happy days. We will talk to him next hour. After the bell big earnings from amazon, amgen just to name a few. We tell you what to expect coming up. Lets begin with a company that was supposed to report this afternoon. Twitter shares getting a boost after reporting better than expected earnings in the Third Quarter and announcing it is shutting down short form video app vine and laying off 9 of the work force. Earlier on the Conference Call Ceo Jack Dorsey addressed the job cuts. We are getting more disciplined about how we invest in the business. We funded our most critical initiatives and set a goal towards driving towards profitability as we deprioritiz
We will be tuesday or wednesday of next week. That is an uncertainty the markets dislike. Francine no one likes risk in this kind of environment. October manufacturing, pmi rising that are then estimated. We will have pound and euro check shortly. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Bankersmost british really that london will remain the Financial Center even after the country leaves the European Union. 72 of banker say london will maintain his role as the Financial Hub for at least five years. The eu and u. K. Will be hurt by brexit. Forecast is that mark carney will not change Interest Rates while he is governor of the bank of england. Mark carney says he will stay in the job until june of 2019, one year longer than planned. Will keep the benchmark unchanged while the u. K. Is negotiating brexit. South korea government shakeup over a peddling scandal. The president fired her premier and finance minister. Neither was directly linked to the investigation, but she appears to be tr