Message coming out of europe to start with, it is down, bucking the trend weve seen across asia and the us. Educating the masses well be speaking to the founder of a tutoring company thats helped 20,000 students in just four years. In the us, a turkey will be pardoned by the president ahead of thanksgiving. Today, we want to know about your holiday traditions. Is it trees and lights . Eggnog . Carols . Is it too early . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Easyjet has blamed a weaker pound for a 17 fall in annual pre tax profits. The budget carriers profits for the year ending in september came in at 540 million. However, it was not all gloomy news, with passenger numbers rising by 9. 7 to 80 million. In recent times, the company has been looking to expand, having put in offers to buy parts of the now defunct airberlin and alitalia airlines. Its been aided by the collapse of rival monarch earlier in the year, especially on some key routes. A
It. Traffic moving well on interstate 80 and we start in solano county, the traffic in vacaville, fairfield and vallejo looking good. Looking good to the maccarthur maze and the bay bridge with traffic continuing to be very light into San Francisco. Looking at the south bay commute traffic looks good. The Golden Gate Bridge has traffic moving well without the fog being a major issue on the span. 4 31 am. Breaking news in Contra Costa County, two more fires, one on the highland way in the other on hollow brook court. We just spoke with the east contra costa Fire Protection district and they said it is too early to tell whether these incidents are connected. The news crew is heading to the latest two fires that we are showing you on the map. We will give you an update. People in Contra Costa County are on high alert after string of arsons, three fires set this week and no one has been injured but the fires have caused explosions and are very close to the homes. Take a look at this video,
For a second time this year. We have world coverage here on daybreak asia. We will be live in tokyo later in the program to talk with Japan Airline accepting bitcoin as a payment method. Of course, we are watching the fed decision. The other story out of the capital was the shooting of a congressman during baseball practice. We will have a live report a little later in this program. This is daybreak asia, live and asiambergs u. S. Headquarters. I am betty liu, in new york where it is after 7 00 p. M. It is after 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong, i am shery ahn. We have seen the fourth rate hike after the financial crisis. Expected. H not surprisingly did not get a huge reaction from the market. Betty not a huge reaction at all. We made up some of those losses right after that said decision. Of course now there will be lots leaf reading on when the next set hike will be and when it will unwind their Balance Sheet. That will be the topic that dominates the conversation around the fed. I want
The eu with no deal in place. Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. With the president forced out of office, what challenges lie ahead for the south korean economy . And how the secrets of how to succeed in business could lie in a bit of horseplay. Hello and welcome to this monday edition of Asia Business report, im sharanjit leyl. Edition of Asia Business report, im shara njit leyl. Within edition of Asia Business report, im sharanjit leyl. Within the next two months south korea will have a new president and that president will have a raft of economic challenges to deal with, the worsening of relations with china over a Missile Defence system is a big worry and what will candidates for the top job have to say about giant conglomerates like samsung, so tied up conglomerates like samsung, so tied up in the Corruption Scandal that brought down Park Geun Hye . The disgraced leader left the president ial house on sunday, two days after a Court Dismissed her of a
Pulled off at the plate. Were in the middle were pinned down by snipers. Morely safer signs off. The 60 minutes correspondent calls it a career. A look back at the legendary reporters work around the world. Im morely safer. Im morely safer. Im morely safer. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Donald trump heads to capitol hill this morning to meet with Republican Leaders. Its an attempt to forge party unity. Some like speaker of the house paul ryan have yet to endorse trump. Others have been outright hostile toward the presumptive gop nominee. Trump says one way or another he is moving forward. Hena daniels is here in new york. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Despite trump saying he did not need the support of House Speaker ryan or any other Top Republican for that matter, today he is going to meet with them anyway. It seems after boasting about selffunding his own campaign, the new york billionaire is now singing a d