Helping elon s twitter takeover bid, the richest man in the world about to get richer due to performance bonuses. that increases his ability to borrow even more than that reported 10-15000000000 he was willing to pour into a twitter offer making that offer possible. now has the mind to buy the stock but still well below the $54 he is offering so now the ball is in twitter s court. it sounds like his ability as a going here and twitter staying where it was, right? really, center, the whole concept of things thing last week was ever noticing free speech is under threat, elon, you know, elon musk is going to buy twitter, i think right now he s in the driver s seat. sandra: there s a lot of people cheering them on. to secure that money its way to make it interesting. he keeps everyone guessing. he is a rather unpredictable character. we will keep watching all of that. meanwhile, again, a story we have been following a suspect in custody down for the murder of a
$1,000,000,000,000 in incentives and other measures to try to encourage climate change fighting technologies and behavioural changes. if he could actually arrive in glasgow with that in hand i think that would actually increase the us is credibility on the global stage with us. then you go down to lower levels of state and city levels and unfortunately, it s the same political divide that we see on the national level appling at the micro level as well. you got liberal cities like my own, los angeles or new york starting up to this world pledge with other big cities to divest their public funds from fossil fuel companies but that you have other cities that are not doing so much. you have my state california where the governor recently just a few weeks ago unveiled a $15,000,000,000 package to fight climate change. then you had the governor of texas where to be fair, it s actually a fairly big
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Kevin hyde nice he s a foreign trade expert at the association of german chambers of industry and commerce and i asked him why the world s biggest single market and a relatively small city state were so eager to link up. the morning well singapore is relatively small you re right when you look at the population of the size of the area of the land but if you look at trade in the if you look at the economy it s pretty significant the trade one with germany is for awfully around 15000000000 euros you can compare that for example to canada which is slightly larger than singapore but the trade value is similar so this significant for the area for the german economy ok so what significance does this deal have for german distances well german businesses get all the benefits that a trade agreement usually gets it gets lower tariffs that means lower costs for the companies less bureaucracy for example it also means that we have agreements on
It s pretty significant for german companies it s roughly 15000000000 euros that they trade with singapore every year it s you can compare this to canada i would just like a bigger country and so it is pretty significant there are also around $1600.00 german companies in singapore and they use it as a hub for other countries in asia so it s pretty important for time companies which which sectors are we talking about that will profit from this deal the most well there s already a lot of trade between germany and singapore as specially cars machinery but also renewable energies or sector all of medical devices for example they will all benefit from the open market and from for trade. in times over u.s. president that is really have. a free trade a verb of free trade our priority for the purpose of export oriented companies in germany others shifting towards asia asia is already very important that is true