Todayis today is a big win for European Citizens and tax injustice. Trouble in the pipeline . The price of oil tumbles below 70 a barrell for the first time since 2021 as concerns grow about the state of the world economy. It relates to how two apple subsidiaries in ireland were treated for Tax Purposes between 1991 and 2014. Ireland has a low corporate Tax Rate of 12. 5 but its been accused of so called Sweetheart Deals with certain companies allowing them to pay a much lower rate. The Decision Cant be appealed apple said its disappointed with the decision and accused the European Commission of trying to retroactively change the rules. Here is what the Eu Competition Commissioner had to say. There commissioner had to say. Is a bigger picture, our investigation there is a bigger picture, our investigation has decisively contributed to a Mind Shift and change in attitude amongst member states, they have helped to trigger and accelerate regulatory and legislative reform. Take ireland, to
2. 2 on the hang seng sessions. That should take us below the 100 day moving average. Jakarta, nothing much so far. It would take the trunk of Southeast Asian markets. We should be looking at some steep losses. Mse i china down to percent. We are watching out for that. The bonsall of taking place separately. We are softer in crude but it has not been solved for seven weeks of gains on this. Yvonne it is interesting. When you look at how the little space everyone has been pressing down the slowdown in china. Youre not seeing that and it will markets. We will demand in china is looking strong given the pent up demand in travel. Maybe that is the bright spot to the commodity space. Look at Country Garden, this is the story that keeps on giving in some ways. Your of Morgan Stanley same default risk is moving. All those gains we sell post politburo have evaporated. David s they are on the csi 300 which should be at 3800. What is the price target of Morgan Stanley . Yvonne . 75. David 75 mor
Approaching midmorning across the asiapacific. Session highs on the benchmark itself. We are looking at emerging markets index, the adage when china starts to go one way, that is where most things go. We are going the opposite way as far as the china story. At least the last 18 months or so, quite a rally that is forming. Weve seen this movie before. It feels a little bit more different when you juxtapose the amount of measures and announcements and pronouncements and promises that have been laid out the past two weeks or so. Whether the data at some point sort of moves with the rhetoric, yet to be seen because as we were pointing out the pmi numbers are underscoring the need for why we are seeing more of this out of beijing. Romaine the thing is we got the beige book, reinforcing what goes on in every Industry Group apart from essentially going out and traveling a little bit. Otherwise, a dismal sort of showing. Chinese people cutting back on everything but travel and restaurants, the
so we start in the us, where, as you ve been hearing, the world s biggest entertainment company, walt disney, is axing 7000 jobs as part of a cost cutting drive. it comes as the company revealed the first fall in subscribers to its streaming service, disney+, since it was launched more than three years ago. veteran ceo bob iger has returned to run the company again after its shares lost almost half their value last year, as michelle fleury reports from new york. this is ceo bob iger s first set of results since returning to the company in november, attempting to revive the storied brand and cement his legacy, he said disney was embarking on a significant transformation, putting creativity at the heart of everything it does, while announcing the elimination of 7000 jobs as it seeks to trim costs by $5.5 billion. his comments point to the future, but results showed the mouse house performed better across a number of areas in the last months, compared to the dismal showing that
let s now get down to business. we start with energy as more eu caps on russian oil have come into effect. the price of premium products, primarily diesel, is being capped at $100 a barrel, while low end products, including fuel oil, will be capped at $45. other oil product imports are banned completely from today. the price cap is designed to limit moscow s ability to fund its war in ukraine. enforcement relies on prohibiting insurance and shipping companies from dealing with russian cargo, unless it was bought at or below the set price. i have not got viyella davis to talk about this instead i do have another guest. joining me now is spencer welch, oil analyst with s&p global. we have been talking about eu caps and bounce, what has changed today? changed today? there is essentially changed today? there is essentially three - changed today? there is. essentially three different mechanisms that have been put in place in the last two months. on the fifth of december, the eu