Front feeling humid, behind it something fresher. This afternoon, cloud with patchy outbreaks of rain in Northern England pushing into wales and the midlands. Ahead of it largely dry with sunny spells, turning cloudy through the afternoon. It looks dry for the cricket. Behind it feeling fresher, one or two showers, a blustery day with temperatures at a maximum of 211 in the south east. This evening and overnight, that cloud and rain pushes south and east. Clearer skies feeding in behind, one or two isolated showers in the north west of scotland. Temperatures in the north falling into single figures, staying fairly mild in the south and east where we could see the cloud lingering. As we move into tomorrow, High Pressure is dominating the weather front ahead of it, clearing and there could be some early cloud across the south coast. Once that clears a good deal of dry and fine weather with a risk of a few showers in the north and west. One or two feeding into Northern Ireland and parts o
Warning from russian president Vladimir Putin to north korea as he uses his speech at the become r ishgbric summit good morning we have a lot to get through lets kick things off with a look at the markets. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 3 , recovering from yesterdays small losses to the tune of 0. 5 yesterday we were under the spell of the latest aggression coming out of north korea, but it seems like were moving on today. When it comes to the insdices on by one, when it comes to the ftse, dax and cac, theyre all in the green the xetra dax is eking out a gain of respectable 0. 6 merck is one of the top performers there the ftse 100 up by 0. 3 . We have that big m a deal this morning which is pushing the mid cap index higher aveva jumping nicely there, up by more than 20 schneider doing well on the french market. When it comes to the sectors, this is the picture autos, foods, beverages, basic resources among the best f performers quick look at the latest data out of the eurozone eurozone aug
Good morning warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im Contessa Brewer in for sara eisen welcome back from texas thank you had a great team with me a lot of stories to cover. Hope you had a relaxing weekend off of what was a busy week lets look in on the Global Market picture comes off a pretty decent end to august when you consider the amount of negative news markets werent under pressure as much as perhaps the headlines for the month may have suggested a slightly positive day towards the end of last week markets in the u. S. Were closed yesterday for labor day. Theyre starting just in negative territory we were not negative around the world today, but we were negative a bit yesterday the dow down 42 points or so in the premarket. Tenyear treasury note for you which has been stuck below the 2. 2 level, had a belief flirtation below 2. 1 , but at the moment back in the middle ground between the two handles, 2. 15 . Lets look at asian equities now. Acraoss the board a mix
Hurricane irma is a category 4 sthoorm cou storm. The path is still you unseuncer puerto rico and florida are areas of interest. Here are the big corporate stories. United technologies buying Rockwell Collins for 23 billion. Under the deal, rockwell Share Holders will receive 140 per share in cash and stock. Thats an 18 premium to the Closing Price on august 3rd. The Companies Say the Aerospace Systems segment would be combined to create collins Aerospace Systems which would save 5 billion by the fourth year of completion greg hayes will join our colleagues on squawk on the street later this morning that happens at 9 30 a. M. Eastern time. Lego announced plans to lay off 8 of its work force lego reporting a 5 drop in revenue for the first half of the year the company said most of the 1400 job cut also happen s wille end of 2017. And Rovio Entertainment is planning an ipo. The mobile games studio will list shares in helsinki in a move looking to boost growth the Company Finally returned