Travelers. Biogen, set to seek Regulatory Approval for a treatment for alzheimers for early next year. U. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open, despite a pretty nice ecommerce boost to profit. The ceo will join us later this hour. The ceo of verizon as well will be here at post nine in a few minutes. An interesting announcement, another guest as well, but i guess it is a mystery. Well wait to solve it in a few minutes. Lets start with earnings, dive right in. Tale two of dow components, p g up, quarterly beat helped by Strong Demand by premium Beauty Brands and mcdonalds falling on an earnings miss as growth on us comps came in below forecast u. S. Mcdonalds 4. 8, looking for 5. 2. Jpmorgan told us the quarter would run light. Im glad you messengered that a lot of people are saying this is a big surprise, a negative surprise if you listen to what jpmorgan said, you would have been ready for exactly this number, which basically to me says not as bad as feared. 5. 9 , thats a number th
The powerful abhor a vacuum, in this case, in Northern Syria, could there be a second arab spring as the power less resist . With me are the french algerian journalist nabila ramdani. Catherine pepinster, the former editor of the catholic weekly, the tablet. Agnes poirier who writes for the french news magazine marianne. The broadcaster michael goldfarb, whose podcast is the first rough draft of history. But first, brexit, forjournalists the story that keeps on giving. It has been a very strange week because ms day we had this rather gloomy phone call saying a deal was essentially impossible. Then Leo Varadkhar and borisjohnson went for a walk in the park and suddenly things were back on and now we are in a tunnel. Should be pleased or baffled . It depends if there is light out of the tunnel. We will see. It looks like borisjohnson gave a concession or rather had a glimpse of the real world and suddenly thought this is it. It looks as if we are back to something that the eu actually pr
That the eu actually proposed two years ago which is a border on the irish sea. We do not know the details, the eu is interested and one thing whether it works or not and whether controls and checks take place and now the irony is that as pa rt place and now the irony is that as part of what theresa mays proposal was about. Well see whether there isa was about. Well see whether there is a deal, probably, hopefully in a few days during the summit and then the dup has been quite silent, usually they reject it straightaway. They did not do that so that is saturday the mother of all battles at the house of commons, next saturday. But of course the opposition, labour could say we will attach it with a vote for a second referendum. On that question of what happens at westminster, as it descends amongst those who are in favour of leaving the eu that actually what is changed is not only the personalities but also the timing and now because the deadline is no one seems to want to go through bey
Brisbane and in the backup there is a crash on northbound 280 for those using 280 at hinchey boulevard and it will be tough to get into San Francisco. There is a crash on 101, Mountain View at shoreline blocking lanes and off to the side but slow traffic is coming through. That deadly crash in San Francisco, the reporter, Cristina Rendon, is there following the crash. The lanes have open . Reporter it was reopening of the northbound s but you can see southbound lanes of 101 and on the opposite side, traffic is moving freely and that is the northbound lanes in both, it appears, both directions, are fully reopened. Southbound was never close but northbound was. Chp confirmed all lanes were open and it appears that they are. The deadly accident shut down at least three lanes of northbound 101 within the last hour or two and when it initially happen, the entire freeway northbound had been shut down and it started about 12 30 last night or early this morning. There was a woman and a silver
Cash trade is less than 30 minutes away. I want everybody to know there are no circumstances in which i will ask brussels for a delay. We are leaving on the 31st of october. Matt scheduling difficulties. Chinese and american officials failed to agree on a day for their next meeting. Rebalancing the numbers. M s looks seter to drop out of the ftse 100 for the first time in years. Welcome to the european open. Less than a halfhour away from the start of cash trading. Im looking at the pound. This goes back to the beginning of 2017. I see the pound coming down, continuing to drop down to 120 01. Keep in mind, it has not closed below 120 for many years. Just didnt down below there. We are watching closely. Look at futures. Futures, wec, dax are looking at a mixed trade right now. Cac futures are marginally off. Decks futures fractionally higher. Dax futures fractionally higher. European futures looking better than a mixed asian session. Markets come back from the labor day holiday. A littl