Facebook premarket, zooming after a big gain yesterday. Its Financial Report suggested some stability returning to the advertising market. Facebook getting 98 of its revenue from ads. This company is a truly global platform. Over 1. 7 billion daily users. Stocks up another 6 this morning after a gain yesterday. Look at microsoft. Big gain yesterday, modest gain this morning. Its close to its alltime high. It says the virus had little impact on its business. Up 1 , microsoft, this morning. Its true to say these trillion Dollar Tech Companies are again pulling in a big chunk of investors money. One more for you. Tesla. Yep, another big gain. Elon musk is furious at the california authorities for keeping his fremont plant closed. He calls them fascists. More on that in a moment. Look at tesla go, 854, up 54. Overall trn overall, its a down day. The dow is looking to be down 280 points. The s p down 33, and the nasdaq, despite the success of big tech companies, thats going to be down as we
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With Alberto Salazar, who was banned forfour with Alberto Salazar, who was banned for four years with Alberto Salazar, who was banned forfour years for doping allegations. Thanks, katie. Also, the weather with Thomasz Shafernaker. At the moment, it is grey and rainy. But we can all look forward to some sunshine over the weekend. Thanks, thomasz. Also coming up. We have a special report about the damage being done to the black sea long used as a dumping ground for plastic and Chemical Waste. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Neither the conservatives nor labour are being honest about spending, in the run up to next months election according to the independent institute for fiscal studies. The Research Group has examined both parties economic plans and say theyre not credible because the tories would end up spending more than their manifesto pledge, and that labour would struggle to deliver the spending increases it has promised. The details come from our economics correspondent a
Life and i very naively, im american, we dont have that they are. Two big legal changes in Northern Ireland are looming with abortion and same sex marriage becoming legal at midnight. It has prompted stormont to assemble for the first time in three years. Coming up one afternoon live, lizzie with all the sport. Hello, simon. We have squad news for the Rugby World Cup semifinals this weekend, there is good news for england but bad news for wales. 0k, back to you later. And we have the whether with matt taylor. Thanks, simon, half term week for some of you and some of you would appreciate something drier but rain will never be too far away from the forecast and i will tell you where that will be in around half an hours time. Good afternoon from westminster, where borisjohnson will this afternoon try again to get the backing of mps for his brexit deal with the European Union, after he abandoned his bid to secure parliamentary approval during a special sitting on saturday. The government i
Actually use military hardware or is it the wrong kind or is it just expenditures no one is really explained this but of course we know one thing its a rants. All the big joke typically has been the saudi arabia has this huge wonderful military but nobody knows how to use it. However 3rd the problem goes a bit deeper than that i think because it also shows you cant truly measure military strength in terms of the amount of money you spend on arms now for certainly you should get some modicum of defense with that kind of expenditures in the us of course but when you for example compare how how would a color military conflict look here between saudi arabia and iran often people fail to take into account a very simple or cheap drone can be used to attack a military installation and this. Energy solution and and this is really the vulnerable the weak spots that they have. That they have presented to them so theres not much they can really do about it so they could make peace with the with t