European equities stumble off the back of disappointing inflation data out of the u. S. And china, but the ecb Council Member kazaks throws his weight behind a pause saying inflation is at a manageable level. Of course, we go from meeting to meeting and forecast to forecast taking a look at what happens in the economy. Hamas rejects warnings for civilians to leave gaza city and head south ahead of what israel describes as significant military operations in the coming days. And earnings season kicks off on wall street with numbers out of Jpmorgan Chase and citibank and wells fargo on the deck before the start of trade stateside. The uk market regulator has given microsoft the green light to complete the 69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard after a series of concessions for the takeover deal. Including activision selling the cloud gaming rights to ubisoft. The deal will prevent microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming and preserving competitive pricing and services.
“If additional shocks come, and if the information we have proves to be incorrect, we may have to hike another time or perhaps two times,” Robert Holzmann.
the growing economic costs of the war to ukraine. in a virtual address to a world bank forum, president zelenskyy said ukraine needs seven billion dollars a month to make up for losses caused by russia. we ll have much more on the impact of the war in ukraine on the global economy in our business programme in about 25 minutes. portuguese authorities say they have an official suspect over the disappearance of british toddler madeleine mccann. she went missing on a family holiday in the algarve 15 years ago. simonjones reports. next month, it will be 15 years since madeleine mccann disappeared. what happened to her remains a mystery, despite numerous international investigations. it has been agony for her parents, they have always clung to the hope
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this is bbc news, the headlines. presidentjoe biden has announced an additional $800 million of military help for ukraine. biden says, the aid, including heavy artillery weapons, ammunition and tactical drones, will be sent directly to what he called the frontlines of freedom . the mayor of mariupol has given a defiant response to russia s claims to have taken control of the city. vadym boychenko said it remained ukrainian, irrespective of any statements made about it. earlier, president putin congratulated his defence minister on having successfully taken the city. president volodymyr zelensky, in a virtual address to a world bank forum, said ukraine needs $7 billion a month to make up for