Performance dividend. Live now to our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. Samir, Rhe Saudi State remains overwhelmingly aramco s biggest shareholder, so they remain the big winner in the aramco story. Well, thats right. They own around 90 of the company and the payout, the bulk of it, will go to the saudi government. If you look at aramco, every quarter they have been paying about 19. 8 billion of dividend. This time they have added another amount to that amount, because they said the cash flows are healthy and thatis said the cash flows are healthy and that is why they have decided to increase that overall dividend, which will be beneficial for the saudi government because it relies heavily on the Aramco Generating revenues for it, and that will help them in their Oil Diversification programme. They are these mega infrastructure projects, new tourist destinations. All this is being done keeping in that oil demand will decrease in years to come and they will have to come
The band tried during war time, the fight for a quality in ukraine. L g b t q campaigners stage demonstrations in the face of some position the alarm terry martin. Good to have you with us here in germany, its the highlight of the budget. We can Parliament Today and general debates and a speech by chance. The old off, schultz hearing with his high patch, which hes been wearing sense of jogging accident last weekend. And at the top of the agenda of germanys hobbled economic prospects and the governments plans to tackle the shots dependent. His course, the opposition lever attacked, the chancellor saying that the budget plans fall short of meeting the challenges of russia is more in ukraine and the nature of expectations. This is part of what chancellor shots have to say in his speech. On this i have to step out of the law. The seriousness of the situation is not rhetorical. Are a joke in everything we do. Now. I need to make sure that we will be able to make these funds available. We wi
Backed forces a city left in ruins and riddled with mines and booby traps but how damaged is isis after this long its also coming up they fought together against isis and now they may be fighting against each other iraqi forces are pushing ahead with an offensive to retake areas controlled by the kurds the u. N. And the United States tonight are appealing for calm on both sides and it fresh protests erupt in the catalog capital barcelona the Regional Government there says it will define madrid and it is refusing to drop its bid for independence. Plus calls for justice growing louder in malta following the murder of anticorruption journalist daphne demonstrators take to the streets to pressure the maltese government. And it from great hope to great misery south sudan is one of the worlds newest states but today millions of the. People there are reliant on food aid we have a special report tonight on one womans struggle to survive and feed her family. Im bring coffee its good to have you
Average briefly broke through the twenty three thousand point mark for the first time in its one hundred thirty two year history but the excitement is coupled with hesitation this is the second longest bull rally in history no one knows how much longer it will last and if theres a correction around the corner. Yes coulter is at the New York Stock Exchange for us here is what exactly has lit that fire under the dow recently. Well an epic rally that sold Morgan Stanley called the dead it is already the fifty thousand point mark that the Dow Jones Industrial average crossed for the First Time Ever since the president ial election one of the reasons why the market is trading upwards is there to right now we are experiencing the fifth consecutive quarter of the u. S. Companies actually see an increase in profits overall the economy is doing rather well and then there are still those promises that there might be a rest less regulation for Financial Institutions that we might see takes cuts a
A twenty three thousand point mark for the first time in its one hundred thirty two year history but the excitement is coupled with hesitation this is the second longest bull rally in history no one knows how much longer at last and if theres a correction around the corner. Yes coulter is at the New York Stock Exchange for us here is what exactly has lit that fire under the dow recently. Well an epic rally that sold Morgan Stanley called the dead it is already the fifty thousand point mark that the Dow Jones Industrial average crossed for the First Time Ever since the president ial election one of the reasons why the market is trading upwards is there to right now we are experiencing the fifth consecutive quarter of the u. S. Companies actually see an increase in profits overall the economy is doing rather well and then there are still those promises that there might be a rest less regulation for Financial Institutions that we might see takes cuts at some points or so there are some fu