Good morning and im curling in perth this morning on the ice where most of the british team train. They will today try to sweep their way into the gold medal match at the Winter Olympics, as eve muirhead and her team take on against sweden in the semifinals. And nick has the weather. Good morning. It is a cold and frosty start this morning. High pressure in control, plenty of dry weather for the weekend, increasing sunshine and blue sky but if you think it is called yet, do have not seen anything yet wait until next week yourfull seen anything yet wait until next week your full forecast is coming up. Good morning. First, our main story for every five prescriptions handed out in england, an error is made, and the governments warned these mistakes could be linked to hundreds and potentially thousands of deaths a year. The health and social care secretary, jeremy hunt, has described the findings as appalling. He cites the case of a 92 year old woman whose vital medication was stopped afte
Of god. Coming up live from paris chinese stocks are up on the second consecutive day as policies begin to take effect. Shareholders are still banned from selling their shares, and over 1000 companies partly for bitten from trading. Kate moody will join us in a moment. Negotiations we will have more on that. Anchor athens is definitely definitely has the attention of its creditors with the latest from its perform reform proposals. A Conference Call is scheduled to begin right now. They will be assessing greeces reform package. It is a 13 page document which recommends implementing many of the reforms that creditors wanted and that haskins and that athens has so far resisted. More taxes, more privatization Less Government spending on pensions and the military. In exchange, athens is asking for debt reduction. Lets go to athens. Our correspondent is standing by. It looks like tsipras has yielded from demand that he was fiercely resisting a few days ago. What happened . Has he given up .
Thats turned french politics upside down now is the last chance for the two president ial candidates to appeal for voters before the polls open on sunday. Well get the inside track on the last week of the contest and ask how much the winner can achieve when they get into office. No specific question today. Just letters know what you think of the programme. Be nice just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. The head of the American Investment bank Goldman Sachs, has warned that britains Financial Centre the City Of London will stall when the country leaves the European Union. Lloyd blankfein told the bbc that the bank had Contingency Plans to move staff to mainland europe, depending on the outcome of brexit talks. At the moment Goldman Sachs employ 6,500 people here in the uk. The bank is due to move into a new premises in 2019 as it tries to bring all its london staff into the same building the stakes are high for Goldman Sachs. It has around 3a,000 staff worl
A very warm welcome. I am anna edwards. Said, why about in terms of the oil market. What are the consequences of commodities . Look at this . You have that economic surprises. The Commodity Index down four days in a blow. Oil down 11 this week. There was a lovely piece, if you are long commodities, our condolences. That is an understatement. Anna we have seen weakness in the commodities space. Prices down another 3 . A focus on the oil price. It is interesting to debate whether this is about demand, specific commodities, or the chinese growth story. Broaderisk radar, the commodity story. Here we have got the iron or ore futures, down 7. 7 percent. A weekday yesterday, down. They aussie dollar. The worst performing currency after the Canadian Dollar. Heading for another legally weekly loss. Market, the question you need to ask yourself as you look at iron ore futures, these moves are not the harbingers of recession. We have gone from an upbeat view temporary reprieve. Turning it over to
If you check out crude oil, which is probably the biggest market story weve been watching for a week or so crude Oil Yesterday was up slightly to 42. 74. This morning up to 42. 84 youre still talking about wti below 43 a barrel. Americas 34 largest banks did well in the stress test. The results show even during a large recession large banks would be well capitalized and could support homes and businesses when times are tough. The second part of the stress test will be released next wednesday. There are talks about whether things might have loosened up a bit with the fed. Doug parker says he is not happy with Qatar Airlines plan to buy a 10 stake in the company. Parker telling phil lebeau he found out about it yesterday parker telling cnbcs phil lebeau he found yesterdays offer confusing, adding why an airline were aggressively fighting would want to take a stake makes no sense he wonders if the motivations were misguided and ill conceived. They have been fighting over policy in washing