Also in the programme some Asian Airlines cut flights to hong kong as Anti Government protests rage on. Well cross live to the city. How an african designer is hoping to bag a share of the Luxury Goods Market with his home grown leather products. And well be getting the inside track on gut health. Is bacteria the clue to Better Overall Health . Well find out. Today we want to know whether christmas has become too commercialised, as harrods limits visits to santa to shoppers spending more than £2,000 thats 2,600 in store. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. A warm welcome to our new business show. Do get in touch and we will discuss your comment is a bit later. The future of cars may be electric but is the Technology Mainstream enough to become mass market . Are electric vehicles still too expensive and how practical are they for long journeys . Well, in the past few hours, ford has unveiled its brand new electric suv,called the mustang mach e,
Ill ill also be joined by a towering panel this evening. State of the nations little ray of sunshine and historian David Starkey and gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. , i want to nelson. As always, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial part of the programme. Email me, mail mog at gbnews. Com. But now its mail mog at gbnews. Com. But now wsfime mail mog at gbnews. Com. But now its time for the news of the day with polly middlehurst. It. Day with polly middlehurst. It. Jake jacob, thank you and good evening to you. Evening to you. Well, within the last hour, the home office has confirmed that Asylum Seekers wont begin being housed on the bibby stockholm accommodation barge tomorrow. Currently moored off portland in dorset. Fire safety concerns appear to have prompted the decision. A Home Office Spokesperson said the vessel is undergoing making final preparations to ensure it complies with all appropriate regulations before the arrival of the first Asylum Seekers. Of th
Nelson. , i want to nelson. As always, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial part of the programme. Email me, mail mog at gbnews. Com. But now its mail mog at gbnews. Com. But now wsfime mail mog at gbnews. Com. But now its time for the news of the day with polly middlehurst. It. Day with polly middlehurst. It. Jake jacob, thank you and good evening to you. Evening to you. Well, within the last hour, the home office has confirmed that Asylum Seekers wont begin being housed on the bibby stockholm accommodation barge tomorrow. Currently moored off portland in dorset. Fire safety concerns appear to have prompted the decision. A Home Office Spokesperson said the vessel is undergoing making final preparations to ensure it complies with all appropriate regulations before the arrival of the first Asylum Seekers. Of the first Asylum Seekers. Its thought the Asylum Seekers will board possibly a day late. Will board possibly a day late. We have yet to get that confirmed for you and well do so
Asia. Rishaad starting the program looking at the major benchmarks around the world. Index, lets have a look at what it has been going on since last anywhere he. January. White, last january. The green line, looks at the magnitude and speed of price fluctuations. 70 seems to be overbought or undersold. And we have the world index, showing the euphoria around the world is gripping the whole world, as opposed to just the msci emerging markets indicator, purple. And then we have the asiapacific index, the secondmost overbought one as well. There we have it, heidi. The party goes on for the time being. Heidi do these technicals part of something that could be in the way of a correction . Europe might be the only one that has a bit of room to move. A number of key events could pull this different directions. The u. S. Laterin this week. Japan is back in trading action after the threeday break. 24,000, Japanese Equities looking at the highest since 1991. Take a look at the action. We will se
Anna welcome to countdown. Ryan we will be talking to the ceo of this swiss drugmaker later in the day. Just missing sales the estimate on sales coming in at just over one billion swiss francs. The expectation from analysts was 1. 3 billion. Anna the swiss drugs giant considering reporting what they call a good Second Quarter. That number is for the Second Quarter and that is actually 12. 69 billion compared to 12. 7 2 billion that was the forecast. A touch shy or broadly in line with analyst estimates. A lot of focus on where this business is going and where theyre going to guide the market. Deutsche bank and ubs thought there could be room for an earnings upgrade. Core ets for the Second Quarter coming in at 1. 37. It this will we will have to wait and see whether we get anything of that ilk coming through. On that core operating income number 3. 5 9 billion in the Second Quarter, just a touch ahead of the estimate of 3. 58 billion. Ryan Deutsche Bank talking about that ahead of this