The economy. In the meantime Hillary Clinton hoping to ride the coattails. They tell us who has the stronger argument. He said it wasnt a ransom. He believes the commander in chief. Brazil was set to take the stage. Will the athletes and tourists be safe from crimes, terror and then seek a virus. We are less than an hour from the closing bell. Lets begin the countdown. We are looking at the alltime highs. They rally with the weekly gain. Fifty to 18. The s p also looking at 2175. If we can hang on here looking like we can set some new records. It was pushed higher. Is having its worst day in 14 years. After its cancer drill failed. It is having its best day in seven years. You can set up 8 . Down nearly 16 . Also under pressure today the company cutting into outlook. Also said it plans to cut about 10 of its workforce. Down more than 12 . Having said all of that the market is up 166 on the tao. After reporting orderly profit it was helped by costcutting measures. And people eating lots
Luxottica. And both sides of the pond battling low wage growth and pressure to rate hikes. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Very nice to see you all today here on this wednesday. Lets take a look at some of the key movements on the european market. Carlsberg has warned that 2014 will be even worse by its key russian market. They expect low to mid Single Digits falling operating profits and says it may shop some brewery necessary eastern europe. Heineken, meanwhile, huge disparity. 10 chang in the performance. Heineken reported better than expected profit in the first half of the year citing progress with its cost saving program. This is the worlds number three brewer. But i did say it was not immune to headwinds from russia. Groups and volumes increased in all regions except central and eastern europe. Mining sector, bmp billiton, failing to get some money back. That was why the shares declined to get better. In the black af
The office . Asking for a friend. Obama actually returned good question bill clinton. The handle comes with the house. Know anyone interested in flotus. President obama picked up his first 1 million followers in a few hours. Ive seen other accounts that hes had. This is the first one at potus. Its cute. What happened in ramada yesterday . The fall of ramada. I saw this last night. I saw quite a bit of news on this. Where is that . Iraq . Iraq and its very close to baghdad. They have them too right . Put that twitter account. Bill clinton and first lady and hilary and all. Yeah. Anyway good morning. Good morning, how are you . Hows wall street . Not very tame. You read my column today. Its still unethical. Lawyers, or madison avenue or government or politics. Anyway. On the front page of the New York Times today they were talking about the revival of wall street. How many private email accounts do you have . How about you . 16. But i got really good stuff going on. Home depots Quarterly
Last quarter. And the fed wraps up a twoday meeting. Theyre widely expected to taper its monthly asset pure chases by 25 billion. Investors will look for hint on any timing of future rate hikes. A lot to digest this morning. Michelle, over to you. Lots of stock moves this morning, too, becky. Twitter shares soaring huge move after hours. Earnings and revenues beat the street and the microbloging site halted a slowdown in the user growth in the quarter. Among the catalysts, the summers world cup. And were going to talk to the analyst who covers this company in just a few minutes. But take a look at that interday chart from yesterday where you can see the after hours moving. 30 . Holy smokes. American express posting a 9 increase in profits. The companys cfo says card members spending as the economy recovered. And Dreamworks Animation posting a bigger than expected loss, revenues falling short. The Company Announced the s. E. C. Is investigating the wipe down of film inventory on turbo,
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