It is extending its emergency Lending Program. Twoday meeting coming to a close today and fiery hearing on capitol hill between william barr and democrats. The hearing appeared to have more questions than answers at least that were allowed. Ag had a question of its own, how long will we let cities burn. Federal agents pulling out of seattle now. Other cities following on spike of violence. Gulleny giuliani this morning. Its all here right coming up. Markses this morning meanwhile look at this, fractional moves as stimulus uncertainty and economic hit companies are taking due to coronavirus, few losses on wall street yesterday, s p 500 up 7. Plus stores using facial recognition, what you need to know about information being gathered from your image. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning are mixed, take a look at european indices with ftse 100 up 20 points, dax index lower by 15 points in germany. In asia overnight markets mostly higher, take a look, coronavi
Minute right now what we really want to do is talk about the hp xerox. Did we move that up well talk about that now because hp board unanimously rejected that bid from xerox to take over that company its weird it was like a reverse pacman a much Smaller Company buying a much bigger one. 22 a share is not in the best interest of its shareholders and undervalue hp. Letter to xerox ceo they sited the potential impact of outsized debt levels at the combined companys stock. They left the door open with the possibility of acquiring xerox. Looks like it would be a good deal but well take over you it was strange either way combined company same debt . Potentially it was odd when i was reading through the letters. Xerox saying they lined up what they thought could be financing that citi group could eventually get for them that seem like a couple stretches. We havent got the highly confident letter from the drexel days from citi on that. In the meantime, new this morning, fedex ceo fred smith is
Highs. Yesterday the ftse100 hit record highs. This is how shares are trading across europe right now. Well talk you through the winners and the losers. How to avoid dodgy digs and Rogue Landlords. We will get the inside track on a site that lists 8,000 beds in 400 cities and theyre all for students. Has the laptop ban on planes affected you 7 for students. Has the laptop ban on planes affected you . Has it changed where and how you fly . We will talk about it on the programme today. So let us know your thoughts. Just use the hashtag, bbc Business Live the hello and welcome to Business Live. Today eu and us officials are meeting to discuss a potential extension of the laptop ban on aircraft. In march, the Trump Administration imposed new restrictions which prevent us bound travellers from carrying Electronic Devices larger than a mobile phone into the cabin. The original set of restrictions affected flights from eight mostly countries including turkey, egypt, the United Arab Emirates a
Announcer its 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . 10 00 p. M. Dari this football field at the Staten Island high school will future. Games and practice is suspended after hazing allegations rock the team. This is happening at susan hazing reportedly took place that they are now being unfairly punished and all this because of the bad actions of a few. It is really disheartening in a way because of all the work that we put in. Chris and his parents and plenty of other parts to be in Junior Varsity players say that they are being unfairly punished. The school has suspended the gender diversity and varsity practice and games after reports of alleged hazing at a football camp last week of state. This is a senior from the school and he says that he did not witness anything but heard about some of the players goofing around. Improperly done some are shooting each other with them. One individual says that they were shot with pellet guns, rubbing their behind in the players faces
He was still doing concerts and theres a place in new york city called b. B. Kings. Have you ever seen him in concert . I have a couple of times. Lucille and born and raised in mississippi which was one of his alabama lumbars too and whats weird is mike nice tie, i think albert king was born in another great blues guitarist that played with the guitar the way Jimmy Hendrix did, learned to play it this way even though they din change the strings. And he was from there. How weird is that. And both named king. But not related. Sure. Very weird. That was very sad to hear that. I love great guitar player and great guy. Always seemed like he was in a good mood. I never met the man. You mentioned 330 day ace year and never stopped working. On the road for decades. He saw how it made his audiences feel too. It might have been called the blues. But it made you feel good. Made me feel good anyway. Now to wall street news. Lets get you up to speed on the markets. U. S. Equity future at this hour