Near 70 jump in profit after turning around its customer image. The cfo tells cnbc digital is key to the strategy. Theres a new mobile website coming out in the autumn. That will help us get to know our customers a lot better which will help drive it. So were listening to the customers. Signed and sealed. Charter communications ended a 55 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable. Sending altice lower in holland. A very good morning to you. Lets get straight to markets after a holiday for a lot of markets yesterday. Including the u. K. Germany and the u. S. We opened up this Tuesday Morning in the red. We open slightly in the green but you can see its just sold off over the last hour or so. Were down 0. 34 . Last week was a positive week for european equities. We just corrected as the weeks kicked off. Yesterday the markets were meaningfully down. Lets look as you can see pretty much the same. Ftse 100 down 0. 7. Germany down more than that and france down less than that and italy down 0.
Welcome to the Program Still no solution to braggs it but believe it or not theres optimism on the markets that optimism has pushed the pound back to a 5 month peak above 1. 30 following a brief dip capping a weekend of wrangling over britains exit from the European Union last week also marked a surge in sterling following a deal between the u. K. And the e. U. To avoid a hard breaks in the fast moving developments have markets following them closely especially as parliament voted against the deal and forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek another breaks it. To Northern Syria where kurds still fear that there will be ethnic cleansing thats according to a kurdish general who spoke to the New York Times despite a u. S. Brokered cease fire between turkish and Kurdish Forces the conflict is far from resolved to president writes uptight about iran will meet his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later today to discuss the matter as many leaders have condemned the turkish incursion a gr