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They call the process excruciating. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. We have made it to friday. It has been quite a week. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are focused on brexit, oil because of opec, and focus on u. S. Stimulus in the u. S. Stocks are holding gains, key data of course out of the u. S. , it is the u. S. Labor market. It is going to give us an indication of whether the economy needs support or not, and Oil Extending Gains afte...

At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exer...

The cash trade is an hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off of the bloomberg terminal. Operation work speed. President is organizing a Manhattan Project file effort to fasttrack a coronavirus machine. Big pharma will work with washington and the military to develop it by years end. Lasting damage. Jerome powell voices concerns about the longterm fallout from the outbreak. Attention turns today to Christine Lagarde as economists expect the eurozone economy to pump the most since the S...

Power lunch starts right now good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen as michelle just highlighted, the dow and s p 500 hitting records again. But we are well off those levels at this hour nasdaq basically getting slammed. Down more than 1 . Big selloff in tech. Check out what is leading that nasdaq 100 lower Lamb Research down so auto disk down 15 now applied materials, invidia also in the tank today. In fact, the whole Semi Conductor industry on pace for its worst day in ...

Liverpool have agreed a £40 million deal to sign england midfielder Alex Oxlade Chamberlain from arsenal. Good evening. Theresa may has insisted that she intends to stay on to fight the next general election. The Prime Minister who is visiting japan told the bbc that there was absolutely no basis whatsoever to reports that she would stand down in two years time. She said she was here for the long term. She was speaking to the bbc at the start of a three day visit to japan during which she is ho...

She would stand down in two years time. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. The Indian Economy is growing, but by how much . Recent changes, like a new goods and services tax, have kept people guessing. And donald trump snakes a pitch to clean up the tax code in america. Makes a. Trump snakes a pitch to clean up the tax code in america. Makes am costs americans millions and millions and millions ofjobs and is self destructive, trillions of dollars. Good morning, as...

Executives are paid compared to the average worker. But shells boss, ben van beurden, who earned £7. 5 million last year, argues that the governments proposal is flawed. Our business editor, simonjack, reports from rotterdam. Big business, how do you stop too much money flowing to the top . The government has a plan, but does it make sense . This is shells rotterdam refinery, it has customers and employees all over the world. Its the most valuable company on the London Stock Exchange and pays m...

Are shaping up. And harnessing the power of sd printing in health care. We meet the firm thats revolutionising the way artificial limbs are made making them cheaper and easier for those who need them most. And as you are hearing. Like it or loath it facebook is bigger more profitable and more controversial than ever. What do you think about that . Has it got too much influence . Just use the bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with facebook because despite the ongoing contro...

Shatter at key support level question mark Second Quarter revenues are not as strong as the ceo would have liked. Matt miller will interview the man himself later this morning. What is going on at ficc . That is the rest are from the markets. 30 minutes into the trading day, this is how we are looking on the futures, little bit lower. There is a veritable feast of delivery from the corporate world. The question is how have we run an done on the european equities, the euro is rising. Asked is eri...

Cash flow really strong we were 2. 7 billion pounds, over a half billion more than last year and this is what gives us the confidence in raising our guidance in Margin Expansion and in initiating a stock buyback this year of 1. 5 billion pounds. Astrazeneca shares are set for their worst oneday loss, after a key lung cancer study fails, wiping 13 billion off the drugmakers market Cap Deutsche Bank shares fall on a 10 drop in revenue, as the german financial giant suffers the same fate as itself ...