this is how your markets are doing. the us futures are pointed to a higher start. investors are rekindling a bit of their risk aspect of it desk risk appetite. the dollar maintaining gains. treasuries are also pretty much study. brent at $60. coming up, we talk marcus with angie wilson, chief executive for goldman sachs asset management in europe. we also talked to william lauder of estee lauder companies. now let s get to the first word news with taylor riggs. theresa may s government had intended to prevent the parliament from trading the terms of the eu agreement, but lawmakers will not be free to vote on a series of changes to the motion. amendments could include calls for another referendum or a different deal with the eu. the bank of england will publish a financial assessment of the brexit agreement at 4 p.m. today, u.k. time. governor mark carney will hold a press conference 15 minutes afterwards. bloomberg will bring a full coverage later today. former nissan chairma
canyon road. destroying dozens of homes. a year later some are rebuilding and other people have decided to move one.natssotwe had just gone to bed and the wind was blowing like we had never seen.john corna says that a year ago he and his wife were woke up when they heard people driving by their house on soda canyon road. . honking and yelling about a fire. soti looked out the back window and saw the fire coming down atlas peak.at the time, john, a retired fire fighter, wasn t too worried about the flames. the fire was still a ways off and the trees and brush around his house were cleared away. they grabbed a few things and went to stay with their daughter in napa. john still wasn t worried.sotfigured, ah, it will still be ok.but the next day, john got a text from a friend with the fire department sothis first word were sorry. their house and their guest house were gone. there home of twenty two years had been reduced to rubble. john s wife took it hard.sotshe was very emotion
walnut creek, danville, san ramon, dublin, pleasanton and castro valley, with some smoke evident as far south as san jose. (ken) tonight marks one year since fires tore through santa rosa and the north bay leaving thousands without a home. (grant) in october of last year 12 fires burned through sonoma, napa, mendocino and lake counties. 44 people died in those fires. 3-thousand homes were destroyed. and nearly two thousand people have yet to decide if they will rebuild. hundreds though have moved forward and have already started the process of building a new home.(ken) kron 4 s j.r. stone was there during the devastation in the north bay last year. tonight he joins us live in santa rosa.the city which was hit the hardest. j-r? imagine living in a home that looked like this one afternoon and looked like this the next. that s exactly what brian beaudoin and his wife dealt with last year in santa rosa when the tubbs fire destroyed their home.that night we watched the flames come
francine: welcome to the pulse , l ive in london. i m francine lacqua. coming up later in the program we speak exclusively to the zalando managing director rubin ritter as his company beat second-quarter sales estimates. francine: after that, we will speak to the rwe chief finance officer. make sure you stay tuned for both these interviews. manus: a rare briefing has been held in china. as the central bank worst to restore calm following the devaluation of the yuan. francine: the currency experience its worst loss in two decades as the people s bank of china says it would intervene. the deputy governor also in charge of the foreign-exchange told the media respects the market, fear the market. he did not mention intervene the market. that is probably what he was thinking in the back of his mind. manus: indeed. and try to get some sort of market context. class test. let s talk to mark. we ve seen a little bit of a bounceback. mark: let s start with the dollar-yuan. this is wh
growth of 0.7% fail so impress investors. and clack action. shares of novo nordisk sink after a u.s. law firm files suit against the danish drugmaker over allegations of concealing pricing pressures in its earnings release. good morning. welcome to street signs. we want to kick off with breaking data out of germany for the full 2016 gdp data. we are looking at an increase of gdp of 1.9% year on year. some forecasts were looking for something as high as 2%. looking at the components breaking down the picture, private consumption higher by 2%. government spending by 4.2%. now, looking at the household consumption, that was also 2% higher on the year. this follows disappointing retail data we had out a while ago from germany. overall the gdp figure is higher by 1.9%. that compares to a forecast coming from reuters for 1.8%. when you look at the comparison, this figure slightly ahead of expectations. let s talk a bit also about oil. we have some flashes coming through on norw