Expanding trade with africa. We may also hear more about the shortterm spending measure that republicans unveiled last night which would fund the federal government through february 16. Debate in the house likely tomorrow. Live house coverage is here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, architect of the universe and advocate for us all, thank you for giving us another day. When we rise from sleep activities of the day stir the mind, having a job to fulfill sets us into routine as a people with purpose. Daily work demonstrates responsibility and manifest our participation in your creative power. Mind and body together become engaged in productivity, success tenance or Service Beyond ourselves. Because human work bestows a special dignity upon a person and achieve a just society, we know how important it is for us to pray for the unemployed and those who work but still struggle
And how and why do things go viral online . We meet one of the firms that says it can do it all for you for a price. Well get the inside track on the world of online marketing. Today, we want to know do social media ads reel you in or switch you off . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Packed as usual so lets get started. Does europe need to do more to protect itself from foreign takeovers . From german manufacuring to greek ports and uk data centres, theres growing concern about how to make sure investment doesnt cost know how. And eu trade ministers are discussing this at their meeting in bulgaria today. Foreign direct invesment into the eu thats when Companies Invest their money in Foreign Countries came in at 370 billion last year. Not all of it is considered uncontroversial. The president of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker said in september, europe must always defend its Strategic Interests such as technology, defence and
Coverage of this storm we are in Bonita Springs and Jackie Deangelis out there and diana olick north in atlanta we want to start right now with carl good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. As becky said, the storm is very much a force in northern florida, will be in georgia later. Were in southwest florida landfall was southwest of naples were on a bridge overlooking one of the waterways the good news if you can call it that, the estimates of storm surge, 10 to 15 feet, didnt really happen. You have all of these condos, hotels, gated communities that dont look that much different from the pictures that we shot here yesterday of course, im going to give that a big calf fee at given we dont know the fate of tampa and tampa bay. When this was considered to be a doomsday scenario in miami beach, the impact there was very real, when it was considered to be a direct hit, that was a high end real estate story. That picture remains true. A lot of these homes out here, mental heal mu
That exclusive cnbc investigation coming up as power lunch starts right now welcome, everybody i am Brian Sullivan. It may not look like stocks are doing much the dow is up 43 points. Modest gains but dont let the numbers fool you. As michelle said, those are all new intraday highs for the major indexes and hopefully for your money as well. This despite the north korean threat oils recovery helping some of the battered energy stocks, which is helping the overall market some big individual stock stories that you should be following, equifax battered again following a downgrade. That stock now down 35 since the data breach was announced a week ago and oracle down 7 , thats on concerns about its current quarter. Ty brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody im tyler mathisen, and heres what else is happening at this hour macys ramping up for the holidays, hiring 80,000 seasonal workers. But that is down from last year. Google reportedly considering investing a billion dollars in lyft
Expectations opec will extend output curbs. China Energy Giants report later. Haidi apple fans counting down to the iphone x. Apple asking chipmakers to double capacity. Right, we have Energy Companies in china reporting. I want to bring up a chart, 80 to 96. This is petrochina. This is the biggest destruction of shareholder value in history, and it could take more to convince analysts the stock has hit autumn. Peaked on the first day of trading 10 years ago. Check it out. It has lost 800 billion in market value, i enough to buy italy,isted company in or circle the earth 31 times with 100 bills. Many analysts think the pain may not be over either. In terms of a broader picture, we are looking at a event risks. We had that positive gdp print out of the u. S. On friday. This week, fed leadership and the fomc meeting, boj, boe, china pmi and Inflation Numbers to paint the picture of whether we are getting sustained Global Growth. All of this for Bond Investors to contend with. Lets get ov