A hit squad to canada to kill him and planes that government corruption has marred south africas coronavirus responds. To. Thank you very much for joining us the governing party of sri lankas president go to by our rajapaksa has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections and along with your high security 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to enact sweeping changes to the constitution the sri lanka people strident is led by the rajapaksa brothers go to by and my hand will serve as president and Prime Minister the result now looks certain to strengthen their dynastic rule but the brothers have been polarizing figures in sri lanka in politics my india was previously president from 2005 to 2015 go to buy a rajapaksa had worked under his brother as defense secretary during serang because civil war their government is accused of war crimes for their battles with tamil tiger rebels the leaders are popular among ethnic majority sinhalese and many praise them for helping t
Secession may be unraveling. Is 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates. This is Bloomberg Markets this is Bloomberg Markets middle east. We are in the latter part of the session in markets like new zealand and australia. Have a look at the broader picture in the region. There is not really much to latch onto. Markets are flat on the benchmark. We are mixed when you look across of these across a lot of these markets. Theres been the emergence of these individual benchmarks. Pulling korea up. Japan is being pulled down by banks. Or 130 companies are set to report earnings in the next few hours. In currency markets, the dollar has been up. The boj is a big story for us in asia pacific. Its about 12 noon. In about two and a half hours, a thatrence gets underway coincides with a flurry of Growth Numbers out of europe. That will be a very busy time. Not just asia but what has been happening in the eurozone. Yeah. Other Asset Classes that are high on the radar. Since the highest level february. Look,
We meet a team credited for taking out two of the rarest predators in the world. First to libya where egyptian warplanes have carried out war strikes held by isil. Its in response of beheading of 21 egyptian hostages on the beach. Egypt strikes which you can see have caused devastation on the ground, and come at a time of deep crisis. We look at how the egyptian intervention could affect the already fragile security situation there. We have reaction were Key Players Like italy that have cleared out its embassy. And this front right now in talks with cairo. Just the type of hardware that egypt needs to fight isil. And in a show of solidarity the french and egyptian president s have also issued a joint statement calling for u. N. Security Council Meeting on the crisis in libya. Well look at all these angles as we begin this news hour but we begin on the ground in egypt where there have been strikes that have killed several people including three children. Reporter egypt retaliates. The o
Lets go to the nasdaq. Thats the heart of this a boolean in markets. Ebulliance in markets. The nasdaq breaking the new record. It took 15 years to get there. Its training around 28 times its earnings. The multiple in 2000 was 190. Its a different beast. The components are going to raise dividends. Some other news, banks are in focus. All in an effort to raise capital. Youre going to get new asset managers. Unicredit will get a quarter of a percent. She will focus more deeply on what she is doing and raise those assets away. Oil pretax profit to zero 5 million. That beat the estimate. Electrolux beat estimates. North america i was surprised. In europe the margins are improving. The Cost Saving Program is working. Astrazeneca also had their set of numbers today. That came in at 1. 0 eight cents per share. They are sticking to their forecast. Those are the kinds of stocks we are keeping an ion. Eye on. The question is where does the dollar go next. We will leave it there. Thats it for me
Has a new goal insight as it remains at with creditors. It needs to come up with a reform plan its creditors can agree on. Guy for more, we are joined from greece by our international correspondent, hans nichols in berlin. A reporter who normally is in greece, but ive got this completely wrong he is in london with us today, which is great. Hans, walk us through the roadmap to may. Hans in many ways theres a lot of talk about deadlines. The European Commission is saying that midmay after that may 11 meeting, is the real deadline. Mr. Dice alone heads they he may have said it best when he said the real deadline is when greece runs out of money. We got 80 million coming due today. Later in may, dont forget that may 1 payment. A lot of focus is on the may 12 payment. That is to the imf. There are another 200 due on may 1. Mr. Dijsselbloem seems to be the most negative. He says they are still far apart. Take a listen and have a sense of how many people are talking about isolation and contag