Travelers. Biogen, set to seek Regulatory Approval for a treatment for alzheimers for early next year. U. P. S. Shares sinking ahead of the open, despite a pretty nice ecommerce boost to profit. The ceo will join us later this hour. The ceo of verizon as well will be here at post nine in a few minutes. An interesting announcement, another guest as well, but i guess it is a mystery. Well wait to solve it in a few minutes. Lets start with earnings, dive right in. Tale two of dow components, p g up, quarterly beat helped by Strong Demand by premium Beauty Brands and mcdonalds falling on an earnings miss as growth on us comps came in below forecast u. S. Mcdonalds 4. 8, looking for 5. 2. Jpmorgan told us the quarter would run light. Im glad you messengered that a lot of people are saying this is a big surprise, a negative surprise if you listen to what jpmorgan said, you would have been ready for exactly this number, which basically to me says not as bad as feared. 5. 9 , thats a number th
Preliminary investigation and those facing the possibility of charges say they hope that the rule of law will prevail they say the initial court action smacks of political persecution Dogon Al Jazeera manila so ahead on aljazeera the u. S. Economy is slow but steady how the trade war with china is impacting jobs plus a bill blocking a note that will become wall but then days after being approved by the u. K. s Parliament Parliament open upper house. Still plenty of hot sunshine across the middle east at the moment little more cloud you know into that southeastern corner. Of pakistan just spilling out solve in the but for much of the region certainly across afghanistan iran easing over toward still events hot and it is dry 30 celsius full by rates of 27. 00 interest in the still touching 40 degrees in baghdad further north we got a few showers between the black sea in the caspian sea i mean in georgia we could see some wet weather over the next couple of days is flooding a little furthe
7 i guess. 7 i guess. Not if you were nigel farage, would you take a bank account back from cruise . I think. I think i would just to sort of just to walk in there and sort of see the look on their faces as i went. Id go and sort of see the look on theirfaces as i went. Id go in their faces as i went. Id go in deliberately, physically. I never into a bank these days. Never go into a bank these days. I all on my phone. But i do it all on my phone. But i robot but i would i would physically go in there just to sort of, you know, show show how ive remarkable ive won. Its remarkable how hes to do more to hes been able to do more to change the Financial System than any do remember the any of the. Do you remember the occupy saint pauls protests back 2012 . If theyd back in 2012 . If only theyd got nigel on board. Nigel farage on board. Make magic well, he can make magic happen. No doubt about happen. Theres no doubt about it. Going carrying it. Were going to be carrying on talking about that
More than a decade earnings in focus, state of texas, ea, match, humana and amds chief lisa su will join us later this hour. Apple sports books reportedly reaching a new streaming deal with the pac12 lets begin with the fitch downgrade. Downgraded the u. S. To aa plus you talked about this last night. Is the market shrugging it off or not i think it has to in some ways, its just an upgrade of the way we run our country, and i think you want to go back and think, well, what happened in august 5 of 2011 when the s p downgraded us s p was at 1,119 it had gone down to 1,095. So, there was a big decline. Then, one year later, it went up so, in other words, if you just take the worst case scenario, which is what happened in 2011, it was an amazing buying opportunity. And when people looked at it, i think they said it was quizzical. Tim geithner was very angry, said it was wrong. This one says, youre a completely dysfunctional country, and we recognize that but all countries are dysfunctional
Good afternoon. Its exactly 3 01. Im ray addison in the gb newsroom. Our top story this hour. Our top story this hour. Sir keir starmer has called for a permanent ceasefire in gaza. During a speech at the scottish labour conference its a change to his previous stance of a pause in the fighting , saying instead the war fighting, saying instead the war must stop now. But he says the ceasefire cant be one sided. Hes calling on the Hamas Terror Group to release all its remaining hostages. He also said that a two state solution must be back on the table , an end to the fighting. Table, an end to the fighting. Not just now, not just for a pause, but permanently. A ceasefire for that lasts. A ceasefire for that lasts. Conference. Yes, that is what conference. Yes, that is what must happen now. The fighting must happen now. The fighting must stop now. Must stop now. Well, in the United States, the white house has blamed inaction by republicans for russias capture of another ukrainian city, kyi