Antivirus software symantec fires its ceo. And happy birthday, twitter. Turkey threatens to ruin the party with widespread outages as the Prime Minister vows to wipe out the site. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Welcome to the show. Ross westgate is out today. Julia chatterley of course is covering the story in brussels. And lets get back to the top story. Nobody is afraid of rush i cants reaction to sanctions. That is the message this morning as eu leaders gather for the second day of their in brussels. This after the white house in brussels extended sanctions on russia to target close allies of Vladimir Putin. Although the Russian Foreign minister has slammed the measures as irrational. Barack obama warns the threat of further military action by moscow could lead to its isolation from the International Community. Weve been working closely with our European Partners to develop more severe actions that could be taken if rus
The future of shopping. Apple has a new idea. Use social media to show off your outfits and get expert ideas on what to wear and buy. Look who is sitting and stephanies chair. My guest post is mark use go. Mark, it is terrific to have you here. The chair never fill of stephanie, but i am glad to be with you. Barra. Rst up, mary she is feeling the heat. She is back in washington, testifying for a second time about the faulty ignition switch that cost at least 13 lives over the course of a decade. Recalls,e been so many almost 20 in fact, more than 20 million cars. Congress wants to know how it happened and what gm is doing to ensure it never happens again. Matt miller is on capitol hill. The hearing is about to begin. We know a bit of what mary barra is going to say. Give us a sense of what we can expect from her and the lawmakers to whom she will be speaking. To saycan expect her pretty much what she has been saying the last four or five times we have interviewed her, but with a strong
Headquarters in london. I am olivia sterns. Also coming up, will andy murray keep his crown . We will be live on day one of wimbledon. And can the peninsula win over paris . Pmire now getting European Data breaking. For more, lets bring in manus cranny. Looks like a little bit of a drop here. Hasn the surface, it dropped. 52. 8 is down from 53. 3 on the manufacturing side. Of 52. 2. A forecast missing analysts on manufacturing and services. What we have here is what we already know, france contracting for a second month in a ropey germany, a little bit of slippage in the Services Data as well. Overall, a little bit of slippage. This goes back to what mario draghi said over the weekend. Talking about and uneven recovery, different stage in the cycle compared to the rest of the world, the u. S. And japan. This is very much a confirmation of that. It is interesting that i mean, you are looking at overall. The composition comes in the composite comes in below 52. 8. Anything above 50 is an
Numbers, we see a little bit of an improvement. It is really incremental. Mainis really one of the benchmarks. How many cases of the carbonated soft drinks and soft drinks more broadly do they ship. You looking at unit case volume of two percent. This gain was international. It was up two percent. North american volume was last. This is an ongoing issue that cocacola has been facing. Companies earnings per share came in line with estimates. You can see that shares are rising as people look at the volumes numbers and earnings numbers. Ceo reallyn the focus on cost cutting as a way to make up for that. Trendroadly, the secular is that we are seeing the appetite, especially in north carbonated soft drinks declining. We heard ken shea talk about that in the past hour. Seeing concerns about aspartame and diet drinks. Thank you so much. Julie hyman turning to the economy. Americans hate inflation. The feds theoretically hates inflation. Aboute people so worried the falling inflation rate ahe
Strong sales in china host a better than expected pretax profit. Shares up more than 5 in early trade. And just a week ago, it was unthinkable. But the sailing team backed by Larry Ellison overcomes the most probable odds to claim victory as winning the americas cup. Well talk about the americas cup a little bit later. 81 down and they win 98. 54 is where we stand on the down jones stoxx 600. We had losses for the u. S. Markets down, s p down for five straight days. Fairly flat on the if it is ft. Right now. Really, what were seeing in the last few days is directionless trading and a slow edge downwards. Ftse 100 flat. Xetra dax down 0. 2 . Cac 40 off 0. 3 . H m sales up 6. 4 . Pretax profits for the quarter 5. 8 billion pounds. Alcatel lucent up 6. 36 . Tui travel, up about 1. 35 today. The company lifted its full year profit forecast. The group, which owns the thompson and first choice brand saying that Strong Demand in its british markets will help push it to an operating growth of