Resign following his firing of the finance minister without Consulting Party leaders. Nejra ive got the imap on the stoxx 600. You can see the stoxx 600 has taken a bit of a turn to the downside. Fallingustry groups than gaining, and intels providing the biggest lag, down 1. 2 allah by consumer discretionary. On the upside, materials were gaining earlier, but they are pretty much unchanged now. We are seeing quite a lot of red across the wheel, even Energy Stocks are down. 4 . This comes after three quarters of gains for the stoxx 600 but it looks like we are heading into negative territory on the first trading day. I want to look at sterling. Butre seeing some weakness, we keep talking about shorts building up in the sterling trade. Totalhows a percentage of speculative positions and it shows the markets bearish tilt has been more extreme in the past. Is courtesy of one of our first word strategist. Here, i want to take a look at the german yield curve because if you want to know how
Also today, re forging an old alliance. As brexit negotiations begin, the uk government travels to india to begin the early work on a future trade deal. And picture perfect . Or is itjust too perfect . What melania trumps First Official portrait tells us about the new first lady. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The pictures are appalling, the pattern all too familiar, and the International Response predictable. Civilians in a rebel held area of syria have been gassed and murdered. It has happened before, with Red Lines Crossed by both sides with impunity. Today, in the seventh year of the syrian civil war, it seems President Assads regime can do what it wants. So far, at least 58 people are known to have died in this latest attack. The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights said the air strikes in Khan Sheikhoun, in the north west of the country, came early in the morning while many were still sleeping. Our Correspondentjames Robbins has the report. He is alive
He was going to have to do something. Quite a uturn. A lot of internal politics going on within the asc. Lets did you uptodate with everything you need to know. Here is caroline hyde. Caroline the rbs achieve a of saying the restructuring of the bank is going well advanced. Returning to profit within four years. Hes coutu manus cranny and an exclusive interview. Quest the work in the work in the bank will be done by the end of this year. The restructuring of the front end will pretty much be done right end of this year. Which is a very, very good outcome. Caroline there has been a rant rebound after jacob zuma named his second finance minister in four days. The man who is the held the post between 2009 and 2014. Francis fars right frances far right failed to win any national assemblies. Hollande performed better than predicted. Back to you guys. Friday a guy shocker for global equities. What are we doing . A bit a little bit of a bounceback. A failed value calculation thats a fair valu
Very funny thing because actually i went to school to make money out of pharmaceuticals. That was my training, to use all the scientific knowledge and use my business knowledge to make money out of medicines. It is very interesting when one listens in many of the debates that the claim generally from the pharmaceutical industry gets fired up by this crisis we have only 13 of the u. S. Spending is due to drugs. Actually, that is true but not quite because the issue is that every single intervention, every visit one doctor to doctor represents a prescription of medicine. So even if one focus on prevention which i think it is an important thing. We have to work on prevention all the time. We also need to realize that some things are not preventible and even though we want to avoid to develop a certain disease things just happen. So even prevention, which is extremely important, it has its limitations and as i will develop a little bit on this pharmaceuticals, most likely any visit at doct
Start of 2017. Not to be outdone, the first minister of scotland was setting the agenda north of the border. It is about fundamental democratic choice for scotland. The peoples right to choose a government of their own. [applause] the politicians were not backwards about coming forward. Even the Security Services made a brief foray out of the shadows with the reactions to recent security leaks. Our adversaries are rubbing their hands with glee. Al qaeda is lacking it up. The first healthy green shoots of recovery were coming into sight according to figures. As the coalition claimed, it also showed its Austerity Program was working. Labor politicians had to change tack. They concentrated on the cost of living. In particular, Household Energy bills. Labor leader ed miliband a pledge that came to dominate much of the next few weeks. The system is broken. We are going to fix it. If we win that election in 2015, the next labor government will freeze gas and electricity prices until the star