Breakthrough could happen any minute. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The focus of courses on the markets, because we are expecting a lot of earnings, banks, roche coming out, and later, u. S. Stocks. Poundlso looking at the on the back of the selfimposed brexit deadline. If you look at some of the earnings, they reignited a bit of concerns about the number of cost cuts and job cuts. Time, you can see european stocks down 1. 7 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Disappointed by the slow brexit trade talks, and a call with eu leaders, he said he will decide after this wiis key summit if it is worth continuing to work for a deal. He previously indicated the u. K. Will walk away if no agreement by october. Germany is still optimistic a deal can be reached. Always the right way to discount questions that can be difficult, and sometimes at the la
Central bank watch with the fed meeting starting today. We also have the European Central bank the bank of england as the week progresses. And well be getting the inside track on how Artificial Intelligence is helping to drive the self driving car revolution. And as World Leaders meet to talk about Climate Change what steps do you think they should take . Fewer flights, less driving, perhaps laced meat . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Get in touch with your top tips or ideas when it comes to making us all a bit more environmentally friendly. Lets start in paris, on this day, in 2015, a landmark deal to tackle Climate Change was agreed by almost every nation on the planet. Now, two years on, National Leaders are meeting back in paris to discuss the deal and how to pay for it. The deal commits 195 countries to keep the rise in Global Temperatures to less than 2 degrees celsius from the pre industrial era. The International Energy agency
Whether by role, road, rail or nl. A scheme offering shopping vouchers to new mothers could help them breast feed their babies. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The latest inflation figures out this morning show the rate has risen to its highest level in nearly six years, suggesting that the squeeze on what households can afford, continues. The office for National Statistics said that airfares and Computer Games contributed to the increase. Our business correspondent, ben bland, is here. The governor has to write a letter to the chancellor. Debbie remind people what we are talking about. These are the average increases in prices in november compared with the vendor last year. On average how much they have changed. The figure is 3. 1 . That is the average increase in prices. For everything from food to fuel, hotels the hairdressers, the lot. There is variation within that. But as you say, the governor of the bank of england, one of his mainjob is to get inflation to hit 2 . I
European stocks closed higher on Wednesday after softer than expected U.S. consumer price inflation data helped ease concerns about the outlook for interest rate.
European stocks closed notably lower on Tuesday as investors chose to lighten commitments ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy announcement, and the release of U.