Italy overtakes china as the country with the most coronavirus deaths in the world. Gains in france and spain. Removing the red tape in america. President trump says he is working to speed up approval for treatments as teva rushes to bring a malaria drug to patients. California orders its residents to stay home. Rush hour refuses to submit to saudi arabias Oil Production plan. The kremlin sees riyadhs move as blackmail. Is there more turmoil ahead . Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look at futures. We are seeing some decent gains in european futures, Even Stronger than what we see in the u. S. You can see euro stoxx 50 futures up 50 , as of the futures for dax. Take a look at u. S. Futures. More than 2 gains with nasdaq futures up 3 . If you take a look at the big drops during the recent crisis, the nasdaq has fared far better than the s p and the dow jones. Today looks like it will do better in terms of gains as w
The eus response so far . Lu kewarm at best. A deadly outbreak of dengue fever in the philippines claims a thousand lives we report from the worst affected area. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1 00 in the morning in london, and 8pm in washington, where the row over the democrats impeachment inquiry for donald trump has reached a new level. In effect, the president has doubled down, by calling openly notjust for ukraine to investigate the democratic president ial candidate joe biden, but for china to do so as well. The democrats are describing it as repugnant, and a fundamental breach of the oath of office. But mr trump sees it differently. Take a listen. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with, uh, with ukraine so i would say that president zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend that they start an investigation
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Today we hear from a new survey that finds people who quit facebook has become less repressed and more productive, so has ditching facebook made you more happy and. Using it would make you better with money . Thats what the survey said. Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Boris johnsons eu envoy is preparing for another round of talks in brussels on the latest brexit proposals put forward by the uk. Central to the plan is the idea that the whole of the uk leaves the eus customs territory but that Northern Ireland stays in the eus single market. But the blocs leaders say the proposals fall short of whats required to get a deal. Our europe correspondent, adam fleming, reports. David frost is facing a barrage of questions about the uk proposals. They foresee Northern Ireland following eu rules on agriculture and goods,
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Making hardware into cloud computing. Ibm reported earnings of 3. 34 a share. That was four cents better than estimates. Thats the good news. But revenue fell nearly 14 from a year ago, coming in at 19. 28 billion. And that sent shares of the dow component initially lower in afterhours trading. In an interview after the results were released ibms cfo talked about the decline in revenue. Within the revenue we report we obviously have a pretty substantial currency headwind that we continue to deal with. And as we transform our business we continue to move out of areas where we dont see longterm value. So across that across our revenue base thats about 13 points of impact. Josh lipton has more now on ibms results. Reporter 5. 1 billion. That is what ibm reported for its software revenue. A drop of 10 compared with the Third Quarter of last year. Analysts had been looking for 5. 2 billion. So a point of weakness where the street was expecting strength. Fbrs dan ives says the bigger point h