Of child nudity and sexual abuse. And. The secret weapon in the war on waste. How packaging could soon be telling you how to recycle it fitness apps on your mobile are now a multi billion dollar industry well be talking to one entrepreneur for whom exercise really is a big money spinner so in the interest of pay equality would you be happy with your colleagues knowing what you earn . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. We start with the gender pay gap because campaigners here in the uk are calling today equal pay day. They calculate that from today because of the pay gap with men women are effectively working for free for the rest of the year. The Fawcett Society which does the calculations each year says there has been a slight improvement on 2018. But female full time workers earn on average 13 less than their male counterparts. A group of 100 top uk businesswomen including former royal mail boss dame moya greene, and glaxosmithkline boss Emma Walmsley want a change in the
We are not a leading not letting people vote or coming it was strange governments. We just want people to vote. Nejra tense weekend of protest. Hong kong takes another violent time. We are live from the city police headquarters. And saudi aramco releases earnings for the first time. We will hear from the cfo later this morning, dont miss it. Matt good morning from the german capital, lets take a look first at a couple of the market prices, you will see the influence trade. You might wonder why asian markets are gaining right now. Thanuan fixing was weaker some may have expected and it does look like the chinese are indeed holding the yuan steady around seven. Right now we see the offshore trade at about 7. 1 you want to the dollar. Thats why youre seeing futures up in europe and the u. S. Taking a look at your stocks futures. Is . 93 and change. Taking out the highs we saw in 2016, and the next move up would be the highs we saw in the financial crisis. Europound at a strong level. Nejr
Business stories. We start in saudi arabia as the Worlds Biggest Oil Company Aramco is set to announce its latest Half Year Results in the next half an hour or so. Last year, aramco netted record profits of over 160 billion, buoyed by soaring energy prices. But in may this year, they reported that profits dropped by nearly a fifth in the first three months of the year as the gloomy Global Outlook saw oil prices drop. To tackle this, saudi arabia has been cutting production to the tune of1 Million Barrels a day. They started in july and have now extended to september. The oil price has since been creeping up. Live now to our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. Sameer, nice to see you. 160 billion is so much money made in a year. What are they expected to say in the next half hour . Expected to say in the next half hour . Sally, ithink it is matching half hour . Sally, ithink it is matching up half hour . Sally, ithink it is matching up to half hour . Sally, ithink it is ma
25 of the jobs in america and close to 25 of the nations gdp. Right now, they are feeling good about the economy. A brt survey came out which suggested the rating right now in terms of how they feel about the economy climbed 11 points to85. That is a little above the reading83. Feeling good about the capital sales. Those are up double digits from the last quarter. Plans for hires have particulared higher. They sent out a survey asking ceos and if they think Government Policies are undermining American Free enterprise. 75 of ceos think that. Of those who answered yes, 92 partly s92 cited over regulation. We will talk to the ceo as and what they would like to hear from the administration and what they feel is most important to growth policies in the United States. Thats what we are talking about with the ceos today. I can forecast whats coming. Some buyback stuff. They dont like those. Corporate ceo compensation stuff. A lot of different populous rhetoric coming out of it. What is weird
Were they up, you ask . Lets take a look. Yes, spain and italy, i always like to see the ftse over in the uk, wilfrieds home, the only one that is up this morning. The big outperformer this month as well. Playing catchup for the year more than any other specific factors. But its been a good month the rest kind of flat for the month. Lets take a look at the tenyear yield and of course, oil Oil Important yesterday. Having climbed above that 60 mark for wti you can see its slightly below. Lets call it not much of a move this morning, flat or so and 2. 42 on the tenyear note yield. Lets get to our road map this morning. In it, it does start with those two trading days that are left for the year u. S. Futures are pointing to a higher open, buoyed by gains in the utility and real estate sector and the cryptocurrency tumbling after new regulation talk in south korea. And its the year of the global ipo, 2017 saw the most Companies Going public since the financial crisis a lot of them right her