There is bouygues up 2. 7 on the open. Lets talk to ryan. Royal dutch shell, these are the guys that started the profit war at the start of the year. They smashed expectations. For 5ts were looking billion. Investors very pleased. It will be interesting to hear what the boss has to say on his conference call. Everybody wants to hear about russia. A very sizable interest in russia. One reason why van burton was meeting with putin, kissing the ring if i might say. We heard president putin yesterday warning that there could be retaliatory moves against western interests if they ratchet up their sanctions. He said he may have to look at western energy deals in russia. We can see Royal Dutch Shell up over 3 . Alstom we are waiting. I am getting excited about alstom. It was called up 20 . Lets have a look at another stock, barclays. Everybody is doing it. It is a bad bank. The commodities business, the fixed income business, some u. S. Mortgage assets and european lending books in spain and
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Also coming up, we test drive the scooter that is redefining vehicles. You could do with that today in london with the tube strike on. Have a super blend that is to be used as a spy craft, among other things. Alstom has approved talks with General Electric. It is keeping open the option of talks with siemens. , david, lets start with you. What exactly is ge proposing . Ge has been proposing that it takes over the Energy Business forlstom and leaves a rump alstom of the train business. Which would be a good thing for the french truffle business, the french train business, because it would have this wad of cash that would come from ge. Geswhat was interesting, comments that it would increase jobs in france of any company that it buys. Sense of who is ahead. It looks like alstom is ahead. Theyease the government, are keeping this was a slightly odd announcement. They are entering into negotiations with ge, but these negotiations
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are kate andrews, the economics editor at the spectator. And the writer and broacaster, dawn foster. Lets take a look at tomorrows front pages. More than half of all adults are now paid by the state reads the telegraph, as chancellor, rishi sunak, warns that the cost of the governments furlough scheme is unsustainable after 6. 3 Million People sign up. The times leads on government plans to urge uk citizens to download a tracing app which will initially be piloted on the isle of wight this week. The app is part of plans to ease lockdown restrictions. Its a gap year reads the front page of the sun. The paper says its learnt that social distancing measures could last as long as 12 months. And the guardian leads on warnings from trade unions that workers could refuse to turn up to work unless the government can guarantee their safety, amid what the paper describes as anger over guidance designed
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