Markets. Following a healthy run in asia overnight, european markets have opened. Once the leader in smartphone technology, blackberry left the handset game last year to focus on software. Well be speaking to the chief executive about the move. And a handwritten note containing Albert Einsteins formula for happiness has fetched 1. 3 million at auction. So, we want to know whats your secret to happiness . Apart from watching bbc business life, of course just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Let us know what makes you happy. A two year row over whether to ban the use of a common weed killer in europe reaches its climax later. Eu Health Experts are due to vote on whether to extend the licence for glyphosate. Its a chemical used by farmers and gardeners across the world in the herbicide known as roundup. To give you an idea, residue of the chemical has been found on 45 of europes topsoil. And it was discovered in the urine of three quarters of germans tested,
You can live without your smartphone. Or to make those the supermarket. As we go about our daily lives human rights are all from the last one mind. Invisible hands. In the twenty First Century starting december second song to double. The. U. S. President and china jinping out of signed a whopping two hundred fifty billion dollars. Of deals in. His first visit to asia but critics say it will take more than the. To reduce the extraordinary trade imbalance between the u. S. And china. And the you crack down on tax avoidance at least thats the plan speaking to d. W. The e. U. Finance commissioner says the key is naming and shaming. Visited of your business welcome during his visit to china u. S. President s donald trump and his chinese counterpart xi jinping announced bilateral deals worth two hundred fifty billion u. S. Dollars the two leaders seem to get on well but looking more closely relations between washington and china arent all that cozy the past donald trump repeatedly accused be
Government this time of an authorized meetings in israel kept on minister threesome at one type a shaky hold on this latest show will bring you the latest from one. German comic ople survival plan stuff along to the General Motors de sac did it last year. Kenya powers forward in the search for clean up the east african states is one of more than one hundred ninety countries here in germany for the u. N. Climate summit and its picking up speed on its path to a green and. Im still getting a welcome to the program. U. S. President donald trump has called on china to increase economic pressure on north korea when its Nuclear Weapons program is meeting is chinese counterpart in beijing as part of his tour of asia chinas grandis prior friendship appears to have softened mr trumps a stance on the countrys tried practices and other contentious issues rather than a problem President Trump now appears to view china as well of worlds great problem solvers. The second day of u. S. President Donald
Earnings come in slightly above estimates but heres the kicker. Analysts slashing expectations over the last few weeks. Is mr. Dudley delivering for investors . German carmakers set to be closing on a deal that would provide hardware fixes for diesel cars. This could add as much as 5 Million Euros to the cost surrounding the scandal. Willis be enough for politicians and the public . We are not done with car news, are we . Matt no speaking of german carmakers and french, british and american carmakers, General Motors has completed its sale, closed its sale of opel and vauxhall. The french group that controls so General Motors closing the sale of german brand and british. Rand of its cars here very interesting headline coming across tsa, opel vauxhall, operating Free Cash Flow by 2020 and targeting an operating margin of only 2 by 2020, only 6 by 2026. Far asot so bad as european carmakers are concerned. Not luxury carmakers, i in used to the u. S. Margins of 10 , but that is with the gi
Happy president s day if you are joining us from the United States. Good afternoon. Anna edwards, good afternoon. There you go. Stoxx 600 up for a second consecutive day, the highest level since december. It will be a quieter day today because of the president s day holiday. No chart shows a better story, no two day chart shows a better. Tory 143 billion, that was the bid put on the table for unilver from kraft heinz. The shares surged 13 on friday. The biggest gain ever, a record. Or unilver today, shares fell 9 . Kraft heinz walking away. Sixceo of unilver had months to put his ship in order because takeovers to debate that kraft cannot come back for six months. s defenses were not formidable, such as low Stock Ownership by management. Credibility may take a hit Going Forward. That is an interesting angle. Rbs shares up to a oneyear high after it said it would scrap its planned sale of its Consumer Banking division. Investors are optimistic today. The rbs is closer to resolving these