editor faisal islam. this is clearly a mess but the expectation in financial circles is that shareholders will provide the funds to keep thames water going. but the question is how did this come about in an industry that should be so simple, providing a product that everybody needs, and provided the monopolies of several million customers with no competition. and the answer is in hugely complicated structures, huge debts, and lots of regulation. the boss of thames water, sarah bentley, abruptly stood down on tuesday. she was battling to turn around the company after a legacy of under investment. let s discuss what s at stake with dr kate bayliss from the centre for water and development at soas university in london. thank you for being on the programme. faisal islam there talking and touching on some of theissues talking and touching on some of the issues why thames water is where it is. can you elaborate on that, please? on that, please? yes, well, thames on that, please?
Not only is a special edition of Market Makers but today i am stephanies sociology experiment. For one special day he gets to be the token male. We are going to focus women across all attacks takes, sports, and so much more. It. Tick around for all of were going to begin with the news. These are the top business stories from around the world. Let us start with jobs stay. Encouraging news from the labor department. They added more from last month. Wouldnt it subdivide that was in. Bouncinghe economy is back. Januarys job gains will provide up wher more. The Unemployment Rate rose. We will show you right now how markets have responded. The s p 500 ready much unchanged. It has been. Perhaps youll see another record day for u. S. Stocks. Yield picking up. The tenure note was yielding 2. 82 . The highest since the third week in january. A 64yearold physicist is denying a report that t is the father of it going. Have unmasked him. When asked, he told the reporter i am no longer involved in t
Highs. Right now down, tech heavy nasdaq down and the s p 5001767, a gain of one quarter of 1 . The momentum remains to the upside. Tomorrow we are hearing a lot of momentum. I dont want to miss it, talk about it. 4. 5 , 179 per share even now. It really is a standout as far as retailers. Abercrombie and fitch under significant pressure. A forecast for the holidays that looks really good, so that is the good news and the latest quarter. Also numbers coming in significantly. You can see the stock really reflecting that. Back to you. Lori thank you, nicole. My first guest says he is not buying shares. Founder of the marketing stream that runs paid search ad campaigns for thousands of companies. You have done research on the effectiveness of Online Advertising and so fa for you fd concern of twitters platform. Do tell. Thank you, lori. I want to point out that twitter is far and away behind in terms of the ad platform capabilities in comparison to her facebook was a year ago when they wen
Something similar. Connell no, dont want to have to report it to the union, even though we are not in one. It was a pretty expensive gifts, without giving it all away. Dagen if you are trying to check off your christmas list, there you go. Stocks hit new highs, Nicole Petallides at the new york Stock Exchange. Nicole the Dow Jones Industrials hitting a record alltime intraday high today of 15,732. Still holding onto some nice gains of 69 points at the moment. The s p would be a record closing high, couple of points away from intraday alltime high. We continue to watch the market to the upside, waiting on the twitter ipo tomorrow. And yesterday was a real indication of the 10 business of this market. A quick look tesla effort recorded the quarterly numbers. The outlook falling a little shorter of what people had hoped for. Right now at 148. 82. Dagen thank you, nicole. Connell the obamacare rollout and website can and will be fixed. Facing another tough round of questioning in the senat