A minutes silence to commemorate the life of a minutes silence to commemorate the life of sir tom and to respect the life of sir tom and to respect the lives the life of sir tom and to respect the lives lost through covid. Remembering captain sir tom moore a minutes silence is observed in the House Of Commons. And the nation is urged to clap for him at 6pm tonight. Good afternoon. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, says Research Suggesting the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine may reduce the spread of coronavirus is superb and will help us all to get out of the pandemic. A study, which has yet to be Peer Reviewed, has shown the jab could cut the spread by two thirds. Its the first time a vaccine has been shown to reduce transmission. It comes as a new study shows that 88 of people who tested positive for the virus retained antibodies for the full six months of the trial. Awarning, a warning, this report contains some flashing images. Its been the Great Unknown would vaccines stop coronavirus
Human rights prize goes through. For his work defending chinas we go minority well speak with his daughter who says the family hasnt seen the jailed activist since 2017. Our family members were and are no longer but able to visit him and we dont know if he still had to tell them just been caused enormous when we dont even tell if hes still alive. And africas penguins making a splash or at least trying to we will look at efforts to save the dangers peace. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss turkeys incursion into Northern Syria its an unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey. A nato member is closely collaborating in syria with russia and nato adversary that sees the alliance as a threat well heres a look at the key issues that play in a region that until recently was in the hands of the kurds. This area is now under moscows control Russian Military police made their way into the north Syrian Border town of kabbani o
It is tuesday, june 18th Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Welcome to the show. Welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Two major market stories developing at this hour. Futures are higher right now nothing seems to hold this market down. Dow futures up 74. All as the fed kicks off a twoday meeting today. Tomorrow we get the decision on Interest Rates Pay Attention to this. I know its wonkky. The yield on the german tenyear note our tenyear note is yielding 2. 5 . Their tenyear note is yielding negative 0. 29 with this press conference from the ecb, we saw the yield on the tenyear bund in germany continue to fall you are paying to borrow money its an incredible story there well have more on these big stories coming up. First we have to get to europe we have breaking news there on facebook the social network revealing its cryptocurrency ambitions lets get to Julia Boorstin in cannes, france with more facebook announcing a new D
Social democrats. Conservatives. Before deciding whether they can live together in the other coalition for four year. U. S. Economy good so the Federal Reserve has raised Interest Rates for the third time this year. European central bank. Coming up in the next sixty minutes indias shameful trade. To a man of seventy five when she was just eleven years old. But will they succeed in eliminating sex slavery. And continue their march toward the next. Time. Hello im terry barton thanks for joining us britains Prime Minister theresa may is heading to a summit in brussels today reeling from a parliamentary defeat over brags that she and the other twenty seven expected to endorse a first stage deal on the terms of britains divorce that was agreed last week but mays defeat at home could undermine her credibility and hes voted that Parliament Rather than just may and her cabinet must have the final say on any breaks that agreement before the deadline in march twenty ninth. This is the moment to
Bank of america, saying they expected benefit from higher Interest Rates and a lower Corporate Tax rate. Brian moynihan says that pretax earnings rose year on year. There is what it is doing, up by 3 10 of a percent. Not Much Movement either way. Allison is joining us. Surface this looks like a pretty solid report. Walk us through it. Allison still going through the numbers, but so far so good. Trading is a number we always look at, a little bit better. Fixed income is a little better, equities a little better, in banking they had a oneoff charge. David who do we think that might be . 880 million driven by a single name, nonus commercial chargeoff. David South African maybe . Alix steinhoff . Allison and i guess the surprising thing would be if you did not see it. Alix it is exposure i think. Allison we were joking the other day, the term episodic, but that is a better term than a oneoff or not occurring, because it is the cost of doing business. David the other thing we do not see is