And how to stand out in a crowded market . We meet the firm thats using Computer Games to encourage us to buy more. Well explain how it works. And as critics blame ba for too many cost cuts we want to know is the golden age of travel over . Do you want more frills, not no frills . Let us know, use the hashtag bbc bizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. The no Frills Airline ryanair has reported its latest set of financial results. Europes biggest carrier by Passenger Numbers announced a 6 jump in full year net profit to 1. 46 billion. Ryanairs performance is a sign that its cost cutting measures are helping the business compete as overcapacity continues to dog the industry. Earlier, we spoke to neil sorahan, rya nairs chief financial officer. We saw our unit cost dropped by 11 last year. Excluding fuel, they were down 5 . So we are seeing unit cost savings coming through on all lines. There is a huge amount of uncertainty about brexit. There is no direction as to which way the uk
Its called the stack. Thats the way the stack works. There it is. Look at that. I see whats going on. The yen is weaker. The first time in eight days. You just have to laugh. All these Central Banks trying to hard to intervene. Japan desperately every time the central bank of japan does something, their currency gets stronger, not weaker. Instead of these half measur measures, why dont they pay junk bond yields to people to borrow money . Give them 13 , 14 . How negative can rates go . Can they go to why not inject money directly into peoples accounts . Just pour it in there. I like that. Much more effective at this point. You saw germany. The average yield is now zero. On friday it was 0. 01. They lost that now. Across the board, its zero. Whats the record for now negative . I dont know. You cant get 5 negative, can you . I dont see why not. Its not working though. This is what makes me laugh. Front page, lew urges imf regulators to get tough. Give me a break. Its ironic. Arent you st
Tell where you the Interest Rates are headed. In this matter ali velshi and this is real money. This is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind by emailing me. At grand jury convened today in the racially charged shooting death of Michael Brown a week ago. That incident sparked nightly protests that descended into riots and looting. A small group of protesters gathered outside of the grand jury location and demanded that the local prosecutor, bob mccoa mccullough recuse himself from the case some say his close family connections to the st. Louis police keep him from being unbiased towards the case. Previous nights of looting has taken a toll on area businesses. Many sustained broken windows and other types of property damage. They have been forced to send workers home and reduce numbers on payroll and they say the upheaval has been nervewracking for business and residents. Fergusons economy has been falling on harder times according to the
In this matter ali velshi and this is real money. This is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind by emailing me. At grand jury convened today in the racially charged shooting death of Michael Brown a week ago. That incident sparked nightly protests that descended into riots and looting. A small group of protesters gathered outside of the grand jury location and demanded that the local prosecutor, bob mccoa mccullough recuse himself from the case some say his close family connections to the st. Louis police keep him from being unbiased towards the case. Previous nights of looting has taken a toll on area businesses. Many sustained broken windows and other types of property damage. They have been forced to send workers home and reduce numbers on payroll and they say the upheaval has been nervewracking for business and residents. Fergusons economy has been falling on harder times according to the Census Bureau numbers. The citys Unemployment
Hello and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. And i am manus cranny. 20 of news on the banking sector. The regulator in the u. S. The first to break its cover on this given the details of who they are going to be finding. They have ordered five banks to pay more than 1. 4 billion in an fx probe. Citibank, hsbc, jpmorgan, rbs, and ubs will pay a fine. Not said anything about any conversation they may or may not have had with barclays on this. The banks have said they will cease and desist for further violations, according to the cftc. Some fx traders and banks court knitted coordinated their trading with others. Banks failed to assess risk with cftc is goingthe into detail and word from the u. K. As well. We have got to figure the figure is 1. 1 billion pounds. Before the release a few minutes ago, analysts said that the six , barclays, citigroup, hsbc, royal bank of scotland, ubs, barclays has not been mentioned today. That the fines would total 1. 5 billion. If