President ial cycles democrats swamped republicans with raising money, it is doubley weird because when it comes to money nothing comes close no one comings close to Hillary Clintons money. Not a gag or a giggle about 2. 5 billion she will have in her campaign warchest. To steve moore who said get stuffed and get fair and balanced. If you joke about one side joke about both sides. On left we have maxwell. You dont think this is a farecompare son. No because on democratic side in beginning. Agreed to by Supreme Court democrats, were opposed to putting that much Campaign Cash into the campaigns. Neil but they happily did it. It was pay to play. If you stayed out of the process you were at a disadvantage. Are not saying you were dragged into this. It is either stay out lose, pay or get money and win. Neil steve moore , what do you make . Both sides you know depend on this . Neither will laugh away . Look, well make a decision in about 18 months. About you know who will run our 4 trillion
1. 855. We begin with facebook with the social media giant honing a Developers Conference this hour. The stock right now is currently down 1. 9 but it is nonetheless, still sitting around alltime highs. Julia borstein is live at the big event in san francisco. Julia. Thats right, mandy. Mark zuckerberg is about to take the stage. He will be addressing the 2,500 developers who are gathered here in san francisco, and there are two main topics that he is expected to make big news on. Messenger is facebooks standalone messeninging app, and he announced he will be turning it into a platform. That means that developers will be able to build other apps on top of the platform very similar to what weve seen with the line app, which is a popular messaging app in asia. That means people will be able to buy things, buy movie tickets, and do various things including read content, watch videos without actually leaving the messenger app. Big news there as well as an Ad Technology as facebook looks to
Capital hike. And investors try out the latest cost cutting measures. The telecommaker is shedding an additional 10,000 jobs by around 14 . A very good morning to you. If youve just joined us in europe, good afternoon. If youre watching in asia, and well get on to you in todays show on, as well. Sideline. Instead americas trading partners in asia have been left frustrated. Well have the latest from the apex summit in bali. Plus at 10 35, a new hsbc report shows infrastructure trade will triple by 2030. Well ask whether the surge is likely to come from developed or emerging nation peps. Investors appear to be stamping their seal of approval on the royal mail ipo. But does a last minute rush before the deadline suggest the governments share price evaluation was wrong . Well get the latest at 0 20. And it was bought for 200 million in 2001 and now its worth 250 million. Well be joined by the coowner of the ultimate fighting championship. To find out how he helped make the franchise a knoc
Stuart this video from ukraine, members of parliament, look at that. After one common islamic voices support for prorussian protesters. Total chaos. We have got it. And warning of a civil war if ukraine uses force to subdue the same protesters in the eastern part of the country. Any reaction on the market . Maybe some flight to safety in gold. Now look at stocks, the dow industrial pretty much flat. Sandra, do you think the latest events in ukraine, heightening of the tension, have they got any fallout over here at all on wall street . Yes, youre looking at it. Stocks going nowhere. This is a market we know they want to buy this market, but if you look at the price of gold above 1300, up 10 on the session. You get these geopolitical tensions. You have risk coming off the table, so they look toward gold because they see this as an insurance against something horrible happening, the stock market imploding because a civil war could break out. Stuart lets stay on the market for a second an
And eddie van halen, one of rocks greatest guitarists, dies of cancer. Long time friend and fellow music legend gene simmons pays his own tribute. You grab the nearest generation x or z, or whatever the hell theyre calling themselves, or a millennal, grab them by the ear and take them away from the stuff that is being played and let them hear van halen so they understand what greatness is. I will welcome to the programme. A warm welcome to the programme. Covid i9 is spreading further among those close to President Trump, with white house advisor Stephen Miller and a senior military official infected. Mr miller, who has been self isolating for the past five days, confirmed he had contracted coronavirus on tuesday. Top us general mark milley and other military leaders are also quarantining after coast guard official admiral charles ray tested positive. Other officials are self isolating out of an abundance of caution. Our north america correspondent peter bowesjoins me now. The numbers a