Were increasing our Sales Guidance in innovative medicines and santos and our bottom line guidance for the full year. Easyjet shares take off after backing the fullyear outlook and lands a new chief operating officer. And shares in asos sink after issuing their third profit warning in the last eight months all right. Very warm welcome to you all we are right in the middle of european earnings season things are beginning to ramp up. Annette and julianna will have the latest on s. A. P. And novartis first two stocks here in the uk. Asos is one weve been following closely. They have issued the third profit warning in eight months citing operational issues in europe and the u. S at one point asos you can see the stock is down 12. 7 , at one point they were down 20 another stock were looking at is easyjet First Half Results did meet expectations the budget airliner reiterated their fullyear guidance easyjet is up there at 3. 6 . One of the few green spots on the heat map today s. A. P. Says
Captioning performed by vitac many have expressed concern that facebook could outcompete banks and nondepository Financial Institutions and become some sort of Financial Services monopoly. I understand facebook has demonstrated a dominance in the social media space but i want to better understand this Financial Services monopoly idea. The Libra Association is made up of 28 pounding members, more to come, many of which have played in the Payment Processing space for a long time. Some of these firms are very large, visa and mastercard have billions of cardholders and process trillions of dollars worth of transactions. Some have argued that this association is a thinly veiled attempt at facebook eventually attempting to create a bank. It may or may not be, but i am more reminded of another Payment Innovation that started in the 1950s and 1960s as associations of likeminded companies, the Bank Card Payment networks. Banks issued their own cards, but banded together as Regional Bank card as
President trumps racist tweets. Surgeons in the uk successfully separate these conjoined twins from pakistan after 50 hours of surgery. We will see how that was done. The twins have been in theatre now for more than seven hours, and there are still seven hours of this operation to go. So far everything is going to plan, and both girls are doing well. We will speak to the co author of Ground Breaking research that finds the origins of anorexia nervosa are both in the mind and the body. The fallout from Donald Trumps racist tweets continues. And americas profound political and cultural divisions are there for all of us to see once again. This was what the president said yesterday. Progressive democrat congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe. And he went on to say. Why dont they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came . The women he was talking about are these three congresswome
The u. S. Team may ahead to beijing for new facetoface negotiations if talks over the phone go well this week. Shery later in Bloomberg Technology global link, we take a look at all the concerns around the facebook crypto push. Why analysts say libra is fanning the flames for critics. First, lets get you started with a first check of how markets closed on monday the u. S. We have equity markets fluctuating between gains and losses, just the finish slightly higher. Investors pretty much focused on secondquarter earnings. We had tech stocks leading the rally with the nasdaq up 2 10 of 1 . Steel stocks gaining ground after white house advisor Peter Navarro talked about an executive order to have Companies Use more domestic steel and iron for federal contracts. Pressure coming from the Energy Sector and financials. A mixed bag of earnings for citigroup which plans to kick off the secondquarter earnings season. Trading revenue dissing estimates. Citigroup leading the estimates. Every member
Capgemini buys Digital Services firm altran in a deal worth 3. 6 billion euros sending shares in both companies higher. And ecb Vice President denies low rates have hurt profitability of the regions banks and says foreign merger activity is indispensable. The iranian president has hit out at the latest round of u. S. Sanctions and says they will fail. He told state television that the measures show washingtons desperation and that tehran is practicing strategic programs. President trump described the u. S. Penalties as proportionate in terms of a response to irans shooting down of an unmanned drone over the strait of hormuz. He urged iran tone gauge in talktal to engage in talks. My only message is he has the potential to have a great country very quickly he should do that rather than going along this destructive path destructive for everybody. We cant let him have a Nuclear Weapon he says he doesnt want Nuclear Weapons. A great thing to say a lot of things have been said over the year