Cfo about why all the m a is going on and how billionsof dollars vanished in hollywood as the screening giant shuts down completely it is thursday, october 22, and this is Worldwide Exchange. I think video killed the video star, answer that the anyway, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Thank you for joining us well get to that squibby story in a few minutes but right now here is how the Global Markets are setting up their day. Stock market, well call them done to maybe flat nasdaq a little bit in the green, all this after stocks closed down yesterday, dow slipping 100 Investors Holding out hope for a stimulus deal and also starting to worry more about the election more on that in a few minutes. Major indexes all on pace to snap their multiweek win streaks. Nasdaq down slightly more. And today well get jobless claims number out at 8 30 as they always are on a thursday. For the first Time Applications may be coming in at 875,000 like they did in the latest week. Las
Theres more on our web site bbc. Co. Uk news and the news app. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. The worlds most valuable and Profitable Company makes a stock market to be. Profitable Company Makes a stockmarket to be. Trumps nafta rewrite. Its a wednesday, glad you could join us. We kickoff the programme with the Energy Markets and it is indeed a major day. Raising over 25 billion last year. We explain what this listing means that the company and the saudi economy. Three years after it was first announced, sally aramco is finally going public. The company is looking to raise 25. 6 billion. Alibaba raise looking to raise 25. 6 billion. Aliba ba raise 25 looking to raise 25. 6 billion. Alibaba raise 25 billion in 2014. This makes it the largest listed farm and just to give you a sense of the scale. Bumping total world demand. Giants like apple, exxonmobil and shell. Initially the company was looking at raising funds, new york and london. They fill in the long t
Trade talks calling progress in trade talks calling progress in trade talks. Lets get started, then. Frances government is set to unveil details today of its programme to reform pensions. It comes as commuters have been dealing with transport chaos amid a series of widespread strikes. So, what could the changes entail . At the moment, france has a retirement age of 62, which is one of the lowest in the developed world. Some Railway Workers can even retire as young as 52 years old. France has 42 different pension schemes at the moment. The government would like to unify them into a single system. If the government is unable to push through the reforms, one independent forecast warns france could be facing a deficit of 18 billion by 2025. The Prime Minister of france, edouard philippe, is hopeful the countrys influential trade unions cancel future strike action when the proposals are announced later today. Translation a new next wednesday i will present the entirety of the governments pl
the defence secretary grant shapps said the royal navy is working on a new dragonfire laser weapon to complement its existing weaponry, the sea viper air defence system. that s to be upgraded with a new warhead and software to counter ballistic missile threats. here s grant shapps. we have, for example, the largest ships that we have ever put to sea in the aircraft carriers. i toss it off, i think, 13 frigates and destroyers which are under commission at the moment. we are modernising the navy, going throughjust massive through just massive capitalisation programme and just this morning, for example, i have been on x, twitter, yesterday, the results of a new weapon which is a laser weapon called dragonfire, capable of doing what those men and women on hms diamond have been doing, with the sea viper missile system, and doing it with a labour laser instead to bring down incoming so the technology is also moving on very fast, as well as the investment. economists have warned
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