Warmer feeling day for the showers in the cunning others, but a warmerfeeling day for the majority with a lighter breeze and in the sunshine. Here is the satellite, there is the low that will bring all there is the low that will bring all the wet and windy weather through the wet and windy weather through the weekend. This is the remnants of a front bringing more cloud into scotla nd a front bringing more cloud into scotland and north east england, some showers here this afternoon and the odds one could into east anglia and perhaps lincolnshire. Further west, and other weather fronts, and perhaps lincolnshire. Further west, and other weatherfronts, not a great fuss about this fronts because it will feed on some thickening cloud, it will be a way to enter the day for Northern Ireland but as the front pushes further north east woods, through the evening and overnight into wednesday it will be can quite considerably. This is a warm front, it is introducing milder air. Unlike the chilly st
Stalemate where Civil Servants, not elected politicians, have been running departments and will be asking whether it is possible to restore the power sharing assembly. And gary oldman is up for best actor in this years baftas for his portrayal as Winston Churchill in darkest hour. Our good morning. It isjanuary our good morning. It is january the 9th. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Theresa may has held herfirst meeting with her new cabinet this morning as she prepares to finalise her ministerial reshuffle. This morning, more ministers are understood to have said theyre leaving government including International Trade minister mark garnier. Government sources say his departure isnt related to recent allegations of inappropriate behaviour. Meanwhile, the journalist toby young has resigned from his role with the new Higher Education regulator the office for students. Hed faced a growing campaign against his appointment by the government because of his history of derogatory comments about w
There is a stigma over pole dancing. This may have produced an outpouring of reaction in some parts, but the care home says it is now up for inviting the pole dancers back. Time for the weather forecast. Sunshine we will keep through the weekend, on the strength of the wind, bitterly cold, as we go into next week, things turn colder. Increasing chance that of us could see snow, but back to the here and now, whether into the next week is dominated by this area of High Pressure over scandinavia, feeding in the cold air all the way from the arctic, honest lengthening east south easterly wind, pushing in more clout across parts of north easington, southern clout across South West England and Northern Ireland, elsewhere, good deal of sunshine. The thermometer may read four to seven celsius, it will feel colder than that. The wind will continue to push in more clout across parts of north east england and anglia overnight, not quite as cold as it was, lire skies elsewhere and these blue colou
Has brexit shaken the foundation . We speak to the ceo at 7 00 a. M. U. K. Time. A very warm welcome to countdown. We are live from london. It is 6 00 a. M. Here in london. A quick look at what is happening. The asian equities session is underway, fairly flat. Weakness coming in through some oil related asset classes. Let us look at the risk radar. Oil prices weaker, down by 1. 3 . Weakness across the oil markets meaning the asiapacific energy is down for the fourth day. Prospect of increasing crude supplies. We talked about that story coming out of iraq. Prices are retreating from a sevenweek high. We talked about this a lot yesterday and last week with regards to the hawkish commentary coming in from fed officials. A little bit of a retreat from the highs we saw yesterday as we focus in on jack jackson hole where janet yellen will be speaking on friday. The fed needs to consider the cost of leaving Interest Rates low. We will talk more about that team as we go through the program. In
Right now, we are looking at highs, record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. They are punching above the record highs. They are off of that by about a point. The nasdaq is still above that. Its climbing throughout the course of the day. We are looking at earnings which have come out, especially with best buy which has pushed the s p 500. We have new home sales or were much better than anticipated. Thats a pop of about 12 . Take a look at my terminal. I point this out to you because even though we are seeing some of this pop today, its our smallest trading date of the entire year. The s p has seen no moves up or down in the past 31 days. Day. E on pace for our 32nd we are keeping investors somewhat on the sidelines. One commodity i want to point out is oil. Wti crude has been on track for its worst two days in the past two weeks or so. We got this pop that you can see in the past hour or hour and half. It is 47. 82. It is up be 48 mark. We saw a reports coming out from reuters sayin