Energy Financial Services g. E. Real estate g. E. Oil and gas and many others although industrial analyst Brian Ilagan Berg says the g. E. s healthcare and aviation units are doing well in General Electric will likely break up as a business as starting as early as the spring theres a porsche l. Shareholder returns and the past year now a recent review found g. E. Is looking to take a six point two billion dollars after tax charge for the Fourth Quarter of twenty seventeen now the companys c. E. O. John flannery said we are looking aggressively as the best structure or structures for our portfolio to maximize the potential of our businesses the company is also expected to contribute fifteen billion dollars over the next seven years to shore up the portfolios reservoir reserves excuse me j. P. Morgan comment at saying this to us is not about. Sense of Value Creation and more an acknowledgement that the problems for crude the company from moving forward as previously planned even a few mo
Welcome to hardtalk. I am stephen sackur. There is something distressing about the revelations of sexual explication and gross misconduct inside one of the worlds best known humanitarian aid organisations. Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of investigations. Now the entire aid sector is under scrutiny for safeguarding failures which appear to go back decades. My guess is amira malik miller. She is an experienced aid worker who experienced misconduct first hand and is now prepared to speak out. So what went wrong and why . My guest. Amira malik miller, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You work for the swedish government. But how expensive is your experience of aid work in the field . I worked in the humanitarian assistance sector for over 15 years. I have been based in liberia and west africa. I have done a lot of work in sudan. I have travelled extensively. I have had a lot of experience and travelled extensively and covered some of the worlds biggest humanitarian crises over the past 1
To bring home a win. Usa has been waiting for years to revenge the loss that was so heart breaking to them against japan. And so now they have this opportunity. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the heaviest fighting in months raged in the northern syrian city of aleppo today as Government Forces tried to repel a coordinated attack by rebels. More than a dozen Islamic Militant groups including al qaedas affiliate in syria launched the assault on government positions overnight. President bashar alass
Im seema mody in for sara eisen. It is Throwback Thursday we are throwing it back with the clash i fought the law. In honor of martin shkreli, perhaps. I think so. I have a feeling later in the show, given l. A. Being awarded the olympics, well go back to california themed songs. Lets check in on markets. Slight gains yesterday it is a ha behas been a decent k five positive sessions out of six for the dow. We had a good start to the week. Its managed to hold on to that. Yesterdays gains were not particularly pronounced. Today we are called lower only fractionally in the premarket. Down a point or so for the dow tenyear treasury note, back above 2. 2 very briefly closing just below it thats where we remain at moment, 2. 194 given that last week, we touched 2. 05, its been a marked increase in yields with that we have had an increase in the u. S. Dollar as well now to asia, we did get a barrage of data from china mostly the data came in weaker than expected. Fixed asset investment, facto
Same song every morning. Good news, commute is dry for you. Hopefully staying that way for the most part. May and stray sprinkle, for the most part looks pretty quiet. Still warm but not as warm as the last couple of days. Warmer zoom on storm scan, part of the reason see the moisture build is the approach of marie. That will is still not expected to be any direct threat to our coastline. But it is going to certainly kick up the surf in the days ahead. Talk more about that as the show progresses, still category one storm, but it is still also expected to make sharp righthand turn and head back out to sea. Notice in the last few hours, little bit of clouds come, gone, for the most part, do still have pretty clear sky. Also, still quite mild. Currently mid or upper 60s across most of the region as a whole, mount pocono, coolest spot of the pack this time around, which hasnt been lately, actually been cooler at the shore, for example. But, we are expecting to rebounds nicely, and easily,