in europe are looking. could be a crucial day in brexit this could be a crucial day in brexit negotiations. does it have the unbreakable formula? we ll get the inside track on the glass specialist that s been around for 260 years, to find out how it s toasting its success. and if you bought a travel book from amazon, would you want ads for a new holiday? amazon is using our past purchases to sell us even more, even if they re from other retailers. so we want to know, are you more likely to buy if the ads for the things we want? let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive hello and welcome to business live. a lot to get through. first. china s economy is growing at it s slowest rate in almost three decades. in the last few hours the government said the world s second biggest economy grew by 6.6% last year. it comes amid a broder global slowdown and a trade war with the united states whose effects are starting to be felt. economic growth of 6.6% for the whole of 2018 was broa
the west of the uk. the east will remaina the west of the uk. the east will remain a place to be to get the best of the sunny spells this afternoon. lovely images coming in from our weather watchers. the satellite gives an indication of what s going on, the weather system rolling in from the atlantic. still plenty of cold air around as the system makes its way across tonight. they can be complications first thing tomorrow. this afternoon a fine story for england and wales. more cloud across scotland, best of the sunshine in the moray firth. rain arriving into northern ireland courtesy of this weather front. it will be accompanied by squally winds through the evening. some snow across higher ground of scotland. and across the pennines. quite heavy rain as this weather system moves across england and wales through the small hours. and the temperatures will come down behind the front, wet surfaces, the perfect recipe for wide stretches of ice on tuesday. that could make for a di
again i mario draghi. will he promise more stimulus? eurozone in terms of manufacturing services slowing to the weakest this year and business confidence in germany at a 17 month low. the growth is easing and confidence is falling. will fall further? some say it could fall as low as $1.20. saying, a man that cries wolf. stimulus is not spinning into equities because mario draghi can he levitate the market that much? currencyat new zealand is being talked down by their central bank saying it has no reason to be this high. what is on the up? the dollar. the dollar is going vertical. beatingdata really estimates. the likes of home estimates up. climbing to the likes of six years yesterday. we will see if it ecb is raining in the stimulus and maybe if interest rises. let s see where we are going in the stock market areas air france trading lower but not much. italy up by less than .1%. trading pretty flat as we wait for mario draghi to speak. supplyan data and money in europe l
i am not making political statements. olivia: a number of republicans backing to give more power to the feds. greece is counting on the european central bank. they country must make a payment to the imf in march. the ecb owes greece more than $2 billion from a bond selling program. he says the ecb should hand the money to the imf. this is not borrow money. it is our money. our normal payment to the ecb. why not have the two institutions find it amongst themselves a way of transferring these funding. investors are showing confidence in the new greek reform proposal. almost $800 million returned to greece bank accounts. in ukraine, the cease-fire may be taking hold. no attacks by pro-russian rebels overnight. the country has another problem. they are losing more than 50% against the u.s. dollar this year. the central bank imposed a ban on foreign currency but lifted it yesterday. two suspects were planning to go to syria and join a terror group. two of the men are from
we have normal shareholders. the relationship between the company and shareholders is a normal relationship. and the largest automaker reports strong profits in the quarter thanks to sales and a weaker yen. welcome. we re into the last worldwide exchange of the week. on today s show, political unrest in egypt spooked many investors, but the country s finance minister has told this channel he s confident conditions will improve. yousef will join us with that exclusive interview at 11:45 cet. profits surged on a weaker yen, but can abenomics keep the currency trend in track? we ll talk about that in 30 minutes. motorola and google take the wraps off their first flagship phone, ebb terntering the crowd smartphone space. we ll talk about the phone s wow factor at 11:20. with the u.s. jobs countdown on the way, payrolls will surprise to the upside, patrick o keefe joins us from cnbc s u.s. hq in the next hour. first of all, earnings to look at. intesa sanpaolo is expect to