Countdown. United states what a surge after hours. Stellar techhad earnings. Marketlion added an capitalization to amazon, microsoft, alphabet is the Parent Company to google. Being carried over to america. Lets check in on those tech moves. Amazon really did add a phenomenal amount. I have the afterhours trading of amazon, up 11 . That is now making jeff bezos, the chief executive the third wealthiest man in the United States. After bill gates, and of course warren buffett. All of the moves coming afterhours. Now we have to check on asia. We know that they have been following the market. Rebecca has everything for us. Walk us through it, the warm breezes coming from the ecb, potential to stimulate has been helping the equities. Zeb you see that green on your screen, the asiapacific index advancing. Take a look, this is something unusual as of late, the entire map its showing green is showing green. That gives you the indication that investors are optimistic. They are taking on a bit o
Im guy johnson. Anna about 6 00 here in the morning in london. We had a turkish election. The Market Reaction is already pretty clear. A stronger turkish lira. This is it versus the u. S. Dollar. That is the game that the turkish lira has made and the loss of the power of the u. S. Dollar. Erdogan says the world must respect this decision. We have got some numbers coming through. Ryanair just reporting profits up by 37 . A little bit cautious about the winter. Laterl get some analysis and talk to Michael Oleary. Lets talk more detail about the hsbc story. Thirdquarter profits Beat Estimates. This is a global bank but it is europes largest bank. To darren inow hong kong. Why are the numbers better than expected . 6. 1 billion on the pretax reported by hsbc. Analysts were looking at something in the area of 5. 2 billion. Analysts cant even cant usually gets in advance certain items and hsbc usually pretty transparent. Namely, we are talking about lower fines and lower settlement payments
Executive board member says the central bank could lose credibility if inflation goals slip. Welcome to countdown. Has just gone 7 00 here in london. In the last hour, it has been reported that france has destroyed the Islamic States command center in raqqa in Northern Syria. Police have a number of raids across france and in neighboring belgium. French president Francois Hollande the u. S. And russia for a new alliance to destroy the Islamic State. We are joined by hans nichols and guy johnson. Some breaking news about french airstrikes and what they have reportedly managed to achieve. Guy a second night of strikes from the french. It appears they are targeting, again, the Northern Syria town of wrapped up. Town of raqqa. It was done once again working with the americans, who are providing targeting information. It appears 10 jets took part in the raid. It appears that Francois Hollande is going to step up this fight against is, and it appears he is once again working with his allies.
Something that just happens. It does not happen with the same frequency in other countries. Emily the fbi working with state and local police. Emily i am emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Yachts board meets to consider options as the Company Continues to flounder. I sit down with another Silicon Valley ceo who has but it had with activist investors. He joins me for an exclusive interview. He is a commander of the British Empire and a tech investor with the midas touch. Another chapter in the yahoo soap opera with shares sales sliding and markets are shrinking, the board meets today to stop the bleeding. One possibility is scrapping the spinoff of its alibaba stake. The company has struggled to reinvent itself with Marissa Mayer at the helm and it is facing renewed pressure from activist investors. Who are these potential buyers . What would the company be left with . Joining me now is a yahoo investor. A very significant position in yahoo and an early investor in alibaba. Shy wit
Guy i am guy johnson. A city getting back to business. Let me tell you about what you need to know about events overnight into today. What we have seen is an early attack from france and the middle east. French warplanes bombing targets in Northern Syria in the city of raqqa, Islamic State stronghold. Let me introduce the reporters for you and tell you what will be going on around the europe. Nichols. Ot hans she is at the bataclan. We have zeb eckert in asia giving us the latest from reaction. Have a reporter in brussels. We will deal with those guys talk about what is happening in marketas a larger reaction. French warplanes have been bombing targets in the northern and Islamic State stronghold targeted by french officials. Those Officials Say that tax in paris on friday were ordered from syria and Islamic State Islamic State said it was payback for frances intervention in the middle east. Police say 2 of the attackers had links to brussels. Brusselsl cars for were used as seven peop