Two years. And signing on to the dotted line airbus, pnb paribas edge closer to finalizing deals in china as president macrons trade Mission Begins to bear fruit good morning lets look at some of the Market Action in europe, a lot more green on the board than red the stoxx 600 is up almost a third of a percent significant gains there in a number of different businesses lets look first at the specific markets across the continent the ftse, xetra dax, cac and ftse mib in positive territory the ftse up a third of a percent. The cac up 0. 4 . And the ftse mib up a half percent. The xetra dax slightly further fwrak i back from its peers. Real estate is the only one not in the green so far. Good numbers for basic resources as well as construction. That could be on the back of strong housing Numbers Technology also doing well, as well as industrials. Lets talk about some specific news driving action in asia, where north and south korea just finished their first set of sitdown talks in more th
Swing. Bank of america kind of mixed, Goldman Sachs sees a plunge in trading. The ceo blankfein may call it a challenging environment. A new hot seat of a new look at the an coventry trust risk to big tech the biggest reversal for the dow since february of 16th the blue clip saw 380 points trading range after hitting 26,000 for the First Time Ever s p 500 reaching 2800 before finishing lower. Jim, you said this time yesterday, you dont like big opens and midmorning you watched the transport starts to roll yes, it was surprising because really it was not anything happening there is nothing happening was yesterday based on unh being good it was anything that was reasonable oil going down and trades going in the wrong direction you have to base an opening on something other than gut and instinct it can turn against you. The market will come to you, there are people that want to sell there are people that want to sell right here. Theyre going to drill big and hope something underneath. The
For more on these and other stories next on our international its the guys a report if youre in the u. K. Or island get ready for boom bust. I am asked. This is because reports. Theres max talk about ilan musk but first i want to talk about a little story that has happened to me. Over the past few days because i was waiting for fed ex package and this fed ex package was they fail to deliver over and over and over again and i went to twitter and i said why is fedex so horrible and why do we always have a good experience with u. P. S. U. P. S. Is always really nice we see them in our neighborhood delivering all these amazon packages and blah blah blah and it turns out people said u. P. S. Is fully unionized and they all have benefits and you know stable you know schedules and stuff like that all the fedex guys are. Their private contractors they have no rights no negotiating power or anything and i visibly saw that in my own experience i had no idea heres the headline for mother jones fr
Waiting for fed ex package and this fed ex package was they fail to deliver over and over and over again and i went to twitter and i said why is fedex so horrible and why do we always have a good experience with u. P. S. U. P. S. Is always really nice we see them in our neighborhood delivering all these amazon packages and blah blah blah and it turns out people said u. P. S. Is fully unionized and they all have benefits and you know stable you know schedules and stuff like that all effects guys are. Theyre private contractors they have no rights no negotiating power or anything and i visibly saw that in my own experience i had no idea heres the headline for mother jones from two thousand and ten it says fed ex versus u. P. S. On unionization there was actually a big battle of the fed ex people were trying to get unionized because they fall under different labor rights relations because they started as an aircrew air Delivery Service rather than ground Delivery Service they cant so i tr
Its thursday 8th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Within the next half hour the leader of the house of Commons Andrea leadsom will be presenting the results of a cross Party Investigation into Sexual Harassment at westminster. Well be taking you there live when it starts, but first the findings show that nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have experienced or witnessed Sexual Harassment in the past 12 months. And the report recommends a new code of conduct and compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at westminster. We now have a set of proposals which mps will vote on, to revamp procedures for pursuing complaints of Sexual Harassment, a new investigating process, a new code of conduct, but nothing particularly new in terms of sanctions, and that is what will concern many people who work at w