Onjuly 19th, a bug infested update was sent to millions of computers running Microsoft Windows Around The World 7 crashing the systems of organisations from banking, to healthca re, and airlines. According to one estimate the Disaster Cost top us firms more than 5 Billion. Microsoft has announced changes to how it interacts with third Party Security firms. Our Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman looks at the effects of the outage. Thousands of flights grounded. Doctors appointments cancelled. Tv channels falling off air. The It Outage felt Around The World injuly has been described as the worst cyber event in history. Microsoft said around 8. 5 million computers Around The World were disabled after a cyber Security Company called crowdstrike sent out a corrupted Software Update to its nearly 2a,000 customers, many of them huge companies we rely on in our everyday lives. Look atjensen. Are we going to disney . Were going to disneyland right now. Jo and her children were among the thousands a
These short term targets were so weak as to be almost 00 01 02,426 4294966103 13 29,429 impossible to miss. If this trend continues, the uk could achieve targets agreed with the government for Methane Reduction which campaigns for a rapid and fair transition away from Oil And Gas production says, this is all smoke and mirrors. Impossible to miss. Mark wilsonjoins me now from 0euk where he is health, Safety Environment and operations director. Good to have on the programme. What is your response to that, that actually, the targets were easy to meet so that you could have a good, positive narrative about the North Sea . The taruets about the North Sea . The targets that about the North Sea . The targets that were about the North Sea . Lie targets that were said about the North Sea . Tue targets that were said through the North Sea Transition Deal allow the industry to demonstrate that it in infrastructure alone, if used to its full extent in the North Sea, would cause three times the emi
And maybe some headlines on stimulus before then hit a bit of a dip here dow down 150 or so. The nfl confirms covid cases among players and nonplayers with the Tennessee Titans. And governor comeau saying theyre now up 3 . We might start to talk about schools closing. Meanwhile valuations is where we will begin this morning as investors try to interpret data. The price to earnings ratio of a nasdaq 100 of the last ten years, the pe ratio, it is doubled and it is at that alltime high. As you see up there above 30 it was at around 15 to 18. 40 of that index is made up of just the five biggest tech stocks so here is the question. Are stock prices in big tech stretched to a point where the value wakes no longer makes sen. We have the editor and chief of the verge joining us we have not seen valuations among the biggest stretched to this point in a long time. I kaech hearing this whole peer group value thing, but what if theyre all out of whack yeah, i think that is a big question why would
Prospects and rising virus numbers. Disney is laying off workers at its u. S. Theme parks and resorts as covid19 continues to hammer travel and demand for group entertainment. Ahead of the first u. S. President ial faceoff, that debate in cleveland happening in the next couple of hours. We are seeing asian markets looking like they will start the day pretty adrift. Chinese pmi numbers could show a steady decline further into more negative conditions. This is how u. S. Futures are trading after slippage in the overnight session with low volumes going into that debate. Contracts are pretty flat at the moment. Thinolume is expected and liquidity on the ground in asia with korean markets on a Public Holiday and the last day of trading before the golden week holidays takes the mainland Chinese Markets out of action. We are seeing a pretty flat start according to the futures session. In sydney, bearishness going into the open, looking like indicated downside of 1 when we get into cash tradin
Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub