California utility pg e said to be close to finalizing terms for a 13. 5 billion dollar payout to victims of wildfires sparked by defective equipment. Youre told it would pay half in cash and the rest in stock in the reorganized company, although no final agreements have been reached. Pg e shares rallied strongly on the news but are still down more than 50 this year. The owners of the new york mets are in talks to sell up to 80 of the major league franchise. Were told a deal would be valued at 2. 6 billion and set a path for billionaire steve cohen to take complete control after five years. Hes already an investor in the mets and has a net worth of more than 9 billion. Shery markets open in tokyo and seoul at the top of the hour. Sophie stocks are set to rebound after closing at a low. U. S. Futures little changed. Checking in on the end, Holding Steady while weakening to a twoweek low yesterday, snapping a fourday advance. They opened lower but could gain a 30year option come and. Whe
For the city. Deals top 70 billion in just 24 hours. Just how much can m a avoid the risk rally . This is the European Market open. Less than a halfhour to go until the start of the trading day. A number of scenes to talk about. Not a great deal of movement in these markets as a result. We are kind of holding our ground after early risk appetite. When you look at the currency markets, a lot of that has been pared back. Expecting to see a bit of a bounce at the start of the trading day in europe. Lets put the u. S. Futures. Some moves to the upside also foreseen in the u. S. But not by any stretch large gains, partly reflecting the strength we have already seen this month and over the past few months on expectations of trade negotiation success and the Balance Sheet. Lets not forget the other factors that have driven us higher. Lets have a look at what is going on on the gmm. This shows us the Asian Session quite nicely. A mixed picture, quite a nice story for the session. We are not su
The article in question here 370 was active which is now being scrapped the state actually did very well when it came to many indicators such as Life Expectancy and other indicators other analysts have said that because of the presence of this article investors could not go in and the local politicians the politicians were reluctant when it came to Long Term Land leighs now yes investors would be able to go in bought the manner in which the Indian Government is scattered this out is being questioned by several analysts what we do know is that in october a Global Investors summit is being organized in st but how is this summit actually going to happen will it happen at a time that the valley is still under lockdown and cannot get out when it happened at a time that there is no connectivity internet is still very patchy all with actually be able to step out who they embrace the investors with their welcome them all with the protests on the street i think its going to be a great test of P
pro iranian militias. the strikes were in response to a drone attack on a us military base, killing three american soldiers. a third successive week of protests against the far right in germany. more than 100,000 people demonstrate in berlin. now on bbc news newscast. so earlier this week we were chatting slogans with our fellow newscasters after an email that we received. and the question was, if we were a political party, what would our slogan be? that is fantastic, because in this year of one heck of a lot of slogans, we ve got to up our game, haven t we? we ve got to think of them. and we ve had some suggestions. we have, we ve had john on email who says our slogan would be oozing truth and stamina. and js on discord says, make britain ooze again, which i do like, apart from it s not farfrom make britain snooze again, is it? which is a perennial concern. well, we re going to start this episode of newscast now, and you can decide which is the more apt! hello. it s ja
For a global deal to tackle overfishing ahead of the launch of the bbc two programme blue planet. And a lucky escape as a british dive instructor was followed by a four metre tiger shark for 15 minutes in australia good morning. Its monday 23rd october. Im rebecca jones. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. , where welcome to bbc newsroom live. Where eu Leaders Summit last week where eu leaders had decided to Start Talking amongst themselves about trade and a transition deal. They step sufficient progress had not been made to start formal negotiations with the uk on those issues. The government says there is real and tangible progress in the talks, but theresa may comes back to the uk this morning with pressure on businesses as well as the difficulties she is facing in brussels and in westminster from opposition parties and from some in her own backbench party as well. This morning boris johnson, her own backbench party as well. This morning borisjohnson, the foreign secretary, has been givin