Game. She is scheduled to speak at the Economic Club of washington so it looks like markets are waiting for her comments to perhaps get more direction. We have had some commentary from other officials over the past 24 hours. Ar. Heard from leo brain we heard from Dennis Lockhart, he says he does favor raising Interest Rates is month. In addition to hearing from those officials, we also heard from adp. Its payrolls report saying the u. S. Economy added 217 217,000 private jobs. This was precursor of the jobs report on friday. Thoughts for investors to consider. P wirp. At w. A. R. The likelihood the futures market is pricing in another increase. We have seen an increase in the probability. It stands at about 74 . That is something to consider as we going to these remarks from janet yellen. Thats take a look at the treasury market ahead of her comments. We are seeing an increase in yields. 2. 18 help in part by jobs figures. A bump in the u. S. Dollar versus the euro. The ecb, we will he
Monitor developed determining how long to keep rates low. That officials have now kept their target in the range of near zero two quarter of a percent since december 2008. Major leadership overhaul at mcdonalds tapping Steve Easterbrook to be the new chief executive. Replacing don thompson in march. Thompson have been ceo for less than three years, let the restaurant chain through its worst sales slump in more than a decade. The donalds hopes easterbrook a different entire company what he did in his native u. K. Credited with boosting business there, tweaking menus, and taking on critics. Facebook is putting its foot on the gas pedal and accelerating spending even as sales growth slows at the social network. Mark zuckerberg says the strategy builds in the companys efforts from last year. 2014 was also yield a Big Investments. This year, we made big bets in the next generation of communication and computing platforms requiring two apps. Focusing on serving our committed the better, rais
Thought the remark he gave to the republicans offthecuff was spectacular. Ive never seen such a state of the union so improvised. After something doing the wrong way were finally getting our act together in our nation thats been very important. But weve been doing the same thing you know, in afghanistan and iraq and just basically the middle east as a whole. We begin to get the same results. Every year we go into a country. Theres a repercussion, some kind of blowback. He even mentioned how he was using drones responsibly and the idea that he was killed maybe hundreds if not thousands of people without congressional authority. Ive seen a few things about the president s state of the union address. You know, some of the stuff thats been leading up to it, ave got ive got to argue that they said that the economy is improving. I dont think thats the case. With unbloiment you can only have your extension for so long and then you dont qualify for unemployment benefits. When those people get
Hermes, lets see if we got an opening price. They are going to pay a possible five euro special dividend. Their numbers actually beat. We will keep an eye on hermes. Down 1 . You are getting the special dividend of five euros, but the margins are what the market is focused on. They come a bit lower because of currency pressure. When it comes to those deals lets see how telefonica is opening. 10 billion pounds worth of a deal done. 9. 2 5 billion pounds will be paid to them. And another billion pounds in stock trades. A great deal of speculation is perhaps already in the price. That way profit bellway profits up and the dividend remains quite a bit ahead. Almost 25 over the estimate. If you are a shareholder, you are getting 25 pence, that is 25 better than the estimates. They are saying everything is going pretty dandy. Airbus is obviously the maker of the plane involved in the tragedy in the southwest of france. They also make an announcement that they are selling part of their holdin
Xopenex, Prime Ministers questions at the house of commons. Republican governors discussed the gop future. With u. S. Onversation trade representative about to the current state of trade agreements. Time, davidestion cameron took questions on a range of domestic issues including heating assistance for the winter and funding for research and treatment of a variety of diseases. Thank you, mr. Speaker. This morning, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. This week, i have launched a crossparty campaign with the support of the gmb union, to provide justice for the 3,213 workers and their families who were victims of blacklisting by 44 construction companies. We have written to all the Companies Involved and will post their responses on our website, stoptheblacklisting. Com. Will the Prime Minister join me in this campaign to support hardworking people and stamp out the terrible disease o