Hours. Haidi tencent buys a 5 stake. Rishaad coming clean, President Trump rolls back Climate Change, saying he is ending the war on coal. Looking forward to 1 30 p. M. Brussels time when the clock will start taking on britain leaving the European Union when the British Ambassador to the European Union hands that letter signed by theresa may to donald tusk. That is the start of a twoyear period of negotiation later today. Haidi thats right. Two years of no doubt contentious negotiations. What will it mean for sterling . 1. 36 for theey see pound, but a very big if counting down to that brexit trigger day. We are 30 minutes away from the open in china and hong kong. We have had this risk on rally on the table with a blowout Consumer Confidence number out of the u. S. Will that trickled through when it comes to the asian session. Lets get it over to sophie to see how we are faring. Sophie we do have stocks outside japan advancing, building on gains for a second day, stocks in sydney lead
I am mark barton in london. And i am Francine Lacqua, right here in rome. We have been in rome the last three days. When you look at the markets, they seem very calm. Be buying some of the bonds to keep that safety blanket in check. We will find out more on thursday, when i am sure mario draghi will be fielding a lot of questions about the political upheaval here. One thing i keep being told over and over is that investors burned by brexit are still burned by trump, but this time took the right positions. Timetable. Talk when will lindsay step down as Prime Minister . Francine at this point, we dont know. We know that the president met with the Prime Minister, matteo renzi. We understand they met twice yesterday, once in the morning and once in the evening, around 6 00, 7 00 p. M. The second meeting was quite long. It lasted an hour. Matteo renzi tendered his resignation, with the president saying, hold on. I need you to first pass this budget law. Means that failing passing of the law
In europe in this early hour, this has been our focus all week as concerns about the brexit rose. Weve been looking at weakness in european stocks. You can see in early trading that most of these shares are up by 1 . Dax up by 1 . Ftse up close to that. Take a look at crude prices. Crude under pressure once again and again this morning. Wti is below 48 a barrel. Sitting at 47. 95. Brent sitting at 49. 12. Lets get you through the big stories were watching today, it is another day and yet another survey on the brexit survey. Coming from comres showing that the poll remain leads, in favor of the uk staying in the eu which is recovery from 55 reported yesterday. On some of the polls, by the way, the margin of error, on some of these, is looking like 10 . Hard to make a judgment whats going on. On the economic front, prices expected to rise. 3 . The fed announces its decision as we said 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. I laugh, because we know what the decision will be. And we will look for, as jo
Whats suspect to be part of a north korean missile. New types of toys and theme parks encouraging children and adults to unleash their inner artist. New information on how Tokyo Electric Power Company Handled the early days of the Fukushima Daiichi accident is causing a stir. Members of a polynomial have been looking into why tepco didnt disclose the plants multiple meltdowns. They say orders came from the top, something officials deny. Reporter the preside. Translator the president was giving orders not to use the word meltdown because the Prime Ministers Office said not to. Reporter it was a shocking revelation. The panel says tepco could have disclosed the meltdowns as early as three days after the accident but didnt because of a chain of command. The meltdowns occurred at three reactors following the earthquake and tsunami in march 2011 but it wasnt until may of that year until tepco officials used the word to describe what happened. Thousands of residents still cant go home becaus
Problem known as Economy Class syndrome. Tweaking the numbers. Japans Mitsubishi Motors admits it falsified test data for 600,000 vehicles. Japans nuclear regulators give the go ahead to extend the life span of two aging reactors throw the operator says it will be years before they come back online. Rescuers continue to scour a village in a mountainous part of southwestern japan even as people brace for more jolts. Authorities say the death toll from last weeks earthquakes in kumamoto rising to 48. Theyre digging through piles of dirt in a bid to find three people who are still missing. And they say the number of those with injuries exceeds 1,000. Officials with the meteorologist Logical Agency are warning people in the area to stay alert. Reporter the seismic activity is continuing. The chief seismologist forecasts heavy rain for thursday and says that means there could be more landslides. More than 100,000 people are taking refuge in cars and other temporary shelters. Translator im f