Japan hits back with an arrest warrant. Kathleen and the latest results from samsung. Shares remain close to an alltime high. Australian markets have open. Sophie, what is the latest . Seeing oil names with the declines along at the start of trade. Checking in on whats happening with the aussie dollar, looking flat after its biggest drop since august. , this morningline still below the level as we anticipate more policy support from beijing. Gold looking likely to continue. First words get the news from new york. The effect of the bush arsenal shag are being felt halfway around the world. About 12,000 kilometers from sydney. Five have killed at least one for people and up to a billion animals. They are generating their own west or system whether systems that can in turn ignite new blazes. The internal investigation that led to the ouster was never about finding the truth and he wanted to be interviewed himself as part of the probe. Hes promising to name people he said engineered a coup
I want to give you a quick check on how the markets are trading. Stocks are pretty choppy this whole session. We are well off the lows of the day. Stocks were essentially down right out of the gate this morning at the opening bell. Data showing another month a weakening chinese trade. A slump in Global Demand has driven the declines in energy and Commodity Prices this year. As we heard overnight, chinas imports declined for a 13th straight month, a record. The dow was down as much as 245 points early in the day. But it rallied within 25 points of being pretty much unchanged. They ledted health, some of the comeback in stocks. A second straight down day for major averages. Oil is little changed after touching the lowest level in seven years, following a petition by opec to essentially abandon their production target. Output target the of 30 Million Barrels a day and endorsed 31. 5 million at its december 4 meeting in vienna. Before the nasdaq has led that come back, the main stock respo
Hello, welcome to countdow. It is 7 00 here in london on this monday morning. Vodafone is looking at a link with liberty global. And talks to buy the portuguese assets. T is all pointing one way analysts expecting a wave of consolidation in the telecom space. Here with more is caroline hyde. Lets start with bt. It has set the cat among the pigeons. It has. We understand it is looking at 02, getting a grip on mobile. It is about quad play. This is the choice of words we use when it comes to telecoms. You have to have all four things if you want to win it. It offers television. Rather nice soccer rights. It now wants to offer mobile as well. The u. K. Is bizarre. We dont often have all four things rolled into one. We like to pick and choose. The way you can make money, the way you can have synergy and stop people moving to rivals is having all four things. Is considering teaming up with its old rival, liberty global. Remember, they used to battle over assets in germany. He were trying to