Julie i am still wrapping my head around self lacing sneakers. We are seeing little bit of a pullback in the United States. Taking the dow down. Trading lower on the nasdaq. Financials are the two worst performing groups. Specialtybulence in pharmaceuticals. Energy helping to counterbalance some of the losses. We are seeing gains in some of the commodities. Pretty much across the board. 1. 4 increase. Seeing in down by nearly 1 . The fed saying it did not want to support further strengthen the dollar. I want to take a look at caterpillar, which is one of the stocks we are watching this morning. Caterpillar shares have been bouncing around. They are not much changed. This is our new chart of the our. Of the hour. This particular one looks at the fed being good for caterpillar. Caterpillar shares have gone up. You have to extrapolate two reasons. Seen dollarave weakness, that has been good for exporters. To, commodities have recovered. Commodity producers are caterpillars they customers.
Waking up in the united dates. I am guy johnson. Francine lacqua as off today. This is the pulse. We are live in london. We have a great show for you. What to we have . How not to pay taxes. You heard me. Thel loopholes used by tolthy and the scrooged avoid paying those taxes. Were going to look at the Worlds Largest cosmetic maker is a gears to post Sales Numbers later. Lets start with the more serious situation in ukraine. Arepes Foreign Ministers holding talks to defuse the crisis. The u. S. And russia have been clashing at a Security Council meeting. Violence escalates in Eastern Ukraine. David tweed has the story. Hasukrainian president spelled out a deadline to lay down arms. That has passed. What happens now . Been expecting to see some sort of action from the Ukraine Special reserve forces butnst the separatists, there has not been any action so far. One of our reporters reported russian can hear the National Anthem being played from one of the municipal buildings that he is ob
We begin with the highly anticipated results of the Airport Commission study. Among the plans chosen from more than 50 proposals is the contentious idea of expanding heathrow. Caroline hyde has been following this story. Walk us through the key proposals, what is in and what is out. Listat is not on the short is Birmingham Airport and the thames estuary. Lets look at the three proposals. What howard davis said is needed is one runway by 2013 and potentially 2 additional runways by 2015. Theyre looking at one option with Gatwick Airport to build a new runway to the south of the easiest thing runway. The other two surround heathrow, our biggest hub and the most busy airport in all of europe. One new runway in the northwest and could be an extension of the existing runway. They have not listed thames estuary, saying it is too uncertain. They might look at it again in the first half of next year. Boris johnson coming out today saying, it is not dead. They are not being considered. Business