For their worst day in 2011 as net profit fizzles out in the First Six Months the brewer can turn it around in the second half. The impact cost has been much higher than last year in the first half of course we took some pricing in a number of geographies, but that will roll over in the second half. And beijing reacts to the social unrest in hong kong as chinas Affairs Office backs chief executive kerry lam and says the one country two Systems Practice will not change right, big news in the uk this morning the London Stock Exchange has confirmed its in talks to buy refinitiv in a deal worth 27 billion. It comes less than a year after a private equity bought a majority stake in the firm from Thompson Reuters at the time, it was valued at 20 billion. The lse will pay for the transaction by issuing new shares with refinitiv shares getting 37 of the combined group. And more in deal space today. Takeaway. Com and just eat struck an agreement in principle to merge. The all share deal is wort
Hold onto gains today have the third positive day in about four sessions as we look at some big gainers on earnings front. Under armour we talked about. Thats the biggest gainer on the s p. That quarter came in better than what was feared even with a one cent loss. Analysts looked for four cent loss revenue. Also better. Stock down 30 so far this year. A bit of a correction higher this morning. Also what stands out to me on earning front is tech outperforms. Paypal earnings out last night. Thats a big part of the story. Wait until tonight. Its like playoffs. I mean, its one particular big night. Microsoft, amazon, big for seattle. Intel coming out. We expect to hear from the new cfo for the first time. Look for that on closing bell. Google. I dont know if i have ever seen a thursday night quite like this one. Its going to be big if you look at the ad market which everyone is. People will watch alphabet. Also looking at alphabets smaller business, other bets including devices, but then
Clark. A lot is going on, what is happening . We have had a couple serious accidents. We have an accident involving a pedestrian. This is at 40th and adaline. Its about a block away from emeryville. You can see that there is investigation on the scene. Theres a wheelchair, a paratransit bus is also there. We do know that one person did not survive as a result of being hit by a vehicle. We are still waiting on more details to be confirmed but we are looking at the scene and a closure on 40 near adaline about a block. Another accident is under investigation it happened a short time ago near 23rd avenue. It happened a short time ago near 23rd avenue. Alex savage is in oakland with all of those details. Oh reporter yes, the information that we just got is that they are considering this a hit and run. They say that the driver who was behind the wheel of this white car was gone by the time that police got here to the scene. So they are searching for the driver of this vehicle. What they did
Analyze its changes of success. German authorities release a man suspected of being an accomplice of anis amri. The prime suspect in last weeks terror attack in berlin. Officials also confirmed that amri pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the months before the drove a truck into a crowded Christmas Market. Christopher my name is christopher springer. Good to have you with us. In the u. S. , the Obama Administration has imposed a series of sanctions on russia, including the expulsion of 35 diplomats and the shutting down of two russian compounds in maryland and new york. The sanctions come amid allegations of russian interference in the u. S. President ial election campaign. Russian hackers are alleged to have obtained and leaked information that damaged Hillary Clinton in a bid to favor donald trump. Russia says the sanctions are counterproductive and will hamper the restoration of bilateral ties. Lets go straight to washington to our correspondent. Give us a little bit more de
But it could come at a little bit of a price. We start off with the markets here. We had an interesting move, negative yields around the world, the tenyear german bond yield going below zero for the first time ever. Tim . Yes, i get it within the european union. We talked about this, other places to trade if brexit happens. The periphery was selling off in yields. If you think about what happened in the u. S. Bond market today, we got very close to the february 11 cloes on the tenyear. And then traded back. Interday it was ugly. Same thing with the s p. Ultimately settled at the important 2075, 2076 level. Ultimately i think markets right now are digesting the fed. Even if the fed is out of the picture for tomorrow. Yes, they are. Theyre going to make a statement. I think this is something thats going to inject more volatility. This is the fed and not about brexit next week. I think its the entire mosaic. I think when you talk about equity volume here in the u. S. , people talking abou