Dramatically expanding their hours, walmart on Christmas Eve is open until 8 00 p. M. Target until 11 00 p. M. Coles has been open aroundtheclock, macys as well and that was end on Christmas Eve so if you are in a rush to get what you have and what you need and no time to deliver it these guys are telling you the rush and we are here. Connell mcshane is in the middle of all this in the ring. This is what i love, we have Connell Mcshane in the rain in the middle of all this. You are a soldier of shopping. Connell yesterday we talked about the effect the weather would have on retailers this Holiday Season and we did that report if i might remind you from the comfort of our own studio, today we are doing a record that has nothing to do with the weather and doing it in the middle of the pouring rain, n. Y. City, times square. I love being a out here with the people they you ran through the numbers and these people a finishing up their Christmas Shopping like the rest of us, 36 million is a
Welcome to countdown. Coming up you will look ahead to the market open. Lets give you some of these breaking headlines. From europes second largest Insurance Company, net income rises 12 on the year. They were looking for 5. 1 billion, so just a little bit low on that. Operating profit of 7 . The ceo says they are on track to meet their target. That is about delivering a doubledigit emergingmarket operating profit for 2015. He will see whether he stands by that. They have had a positive currency effect in 2015. A positive impact from the u. S. Dollar, from the hong kong dollar, and from this the swiss franc. That is something we will be investigating when we speak. The dividend is where it gets a little interesting. Bloomberg had a view on where the dividend would be, . 91 was our consensus estimate. The dividend comes in at . 95 so operating profit rises. Dividend is up, and of the ceo says they are on track to meet their strict target by the end of 2015. More on axa later. Olivia mal
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