And volkswagen recalling cars in india. Than 19e announced more recalls. Lets look at markets. Hong kong and china, currently closed for lunch. Trading in they the morning. This is how it looks at the moment. Singapore up 0. 8 . I am back in half an hour with another update. Time for bloomberg west. Emily im emily chang and you are watching bloomberg west. Coming up, Mark Zuckerberg gains a daughter and gives away a fortune. The facebook founder announcing his plans to donate 99 of his shares in the social network. Plus, a changing of the guard. Can the new leader save the smartphone business . And what goes down must come up, a new investment in snapchat. A big dose of news from Mark Zuckerberg. He and his wife are the proud parents of a baby girl named maximo. His wife and he planned to give away 99 of their shares in facebook worth about 45 billion. In a letter to their daughter he said our society has an obligation to invest and improve the lives of all those coming into this world
Hours as they miss expectations. Currency fluctuations hit numbers. Investors like the number of inditechs numbers. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. If youre just tuning in, thanks for joining us here on the show. Im going to give you a look at ohio the u. S. Markets are faring here on Worldwide Exchange ahead of the open today. Gains in yesterdays session adding to the gains that we saw in wednesdays. And were seeing dow futures indicating higher by around 3 points. Same story for the nasdaq and for the s p 500 relatively unchanged as far as this market is concerned. A bit of a drop in sentiment yesterday as far as the ukrainian crisis is concerned. Markets steaming here. The real focus for investors today, of course, is what happens with the fed meeting and yellen, of course, first time in the hot seat tonight. This is the performance for the european markets. Coming off some of the gains we saw earlier on in the session,
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Scotland . More or less than a connect. You are seeing the yes vote rise in the no vote fall. Get thebeginning to confidence of investors. Will speakllande about industrial policy in france. Keep an eye on oil. Libya upping their production. Volume in the u. K. Was 22 . Volatility rising by 22 . Industrial production and many manufacturing hiked a little bit. Enewed sanctions we are seeing that rise at the start of trade today. Up. K targets with growing earnings per share between 10 and 15 . Bucking the overall trend. Alstom involved in bribery in the u. K. That story taking a little bit of the form. Loreal said it would grow. Now he is saying the growth would be between 3 and three and a half percent. That is taking the stock lower. Keep an eye on that particular stock in paris. This is the overall trend. That is undeniable. Asian markets we saw a renewed. The dollar off sixyear highs. The yen on sixyear lows. The need for more stimulus. Beat is what advisers to a have been saying. 1
15,542 is the intraday high. 409, the closing high. So weve had the little box counting down the number of points we are within that range. But right now, about 100 shy. Fourth consecutive up day for the dow. And the best fourday gain the dow has seen since the beginning of the year. When we launched this whole madness for 2013. So this is a strong rally any way you look at it. A couple of traders down here saying it sounds eerily familiar to back what happened remember may 21st . Thats where we set the highs for the s p, and what happened the next day. Ben bernanke. Who do we hear from tomorrow . The Federal Reserve. Oh, boy. Deja vu all over again. Meanwhile, reaction still pouring in about Eliot Spitzers attempted comeback in politics. Wall street and the banks are not happy, but you know who we havent heard from yet, the person that spitt erspitzer wil running against for comptroller, but you will be hearing from Scott Stringer here. Hell be here with us, and well get his reaction