You are this morning. This is the current beach outside the studio in sa lfo rd. Current beach outside the studio in salford. A lovely picture. Good morning. After a chilly start, it will be dry with a fair bit of sunshine around. For the rest of england and wales, a bit more clouds, a few showers, a breeze picking up, and chilly on the east coast. I will have all the details inis coast. I will have all the details in 15 minutes. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may will visit Buckingham Palace today, for an audience with the queen, to mark the Dissolution Of Parliament. It signals the official start of the general Election Campaign and just after midnight all seats in the House Of Commons became vacant. Attention turns to the local elections tomorrow, with crucial votes for 3h english councils, all scottish and Welsh Councils, as well as a number of local authority mayors. The deadline to register to vote in the General Election is may 22nd and polls open onjune
And well be getting The Inside Track on the key to success in china. The founder of uk high street stalwart timpsons will be here to explain why hes expanding his key cutting and shoe repair business overseas, and why brexit was the right thing to do. Today, as burger king launches a new ad that hijacked googles home assistant, we want to know do adverts need to be more creative to get your attention these days . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Welcome to the programme. We start on wall street, where its a hugely important day for investors. Foul for our pensions now, we know the share prices of banks have soared in the months following President Trumps election, led by americas biggest banks, which are up by almost 25 . But in recent weeks, doubts have been creeping in, rattling the markets. Let me show you what we have put together. Today we get First Quarter results from the biggest us bank, jpmorgan chase, and later from its rival c
Its thursday, the 13th april. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The Education Secretary, Justine Greening, has said that she wants a new model of Grammar Schools in england which are open for everyone. She says she particularly wants to ensure that there are much stronger educational outcomes for ordinary Working Families, and notjust the privileged few. But new analysis from the government shows a majority of Selective School places go to more affluent families. Lets here little of whatJustine Greening has been saying in the past few minutes. The final part of the plan for britain is a Fairer Society. A society based on merit. Delivering a Fairer Society should start with education and our schools, making sure that our children and young people can do their very best, and reach their potential wherever they are growing up. That is the means by which we build a better country, its how we deliver the plan for britain. In short, we are the means, our countrys people, each
Markets desk where julie hyman and has the latest. Julie a stumbling end for a strong week for stocks. The nasdaq has been the outperform performer today, very little change. This is over the course of the day. You will see a very tight range here in trading. Dipping at the open. The range mostly throughout the day. The other thing we are watching is we continue to see low volume. These of various groups on the s p 500. Not a lot ofl sharp catalysts and news out there trapping trading. Carol once going on in terms of other Asset Classes . Julie it depends on what youre looking at. It has than pushing down Energy Stocks in we have seen directionally, the correlation today. We have oil down 4 . Still trading. We saw it actually shrinking. We saw a little bit of an improvement in oil there but it was not sustained. Not seeing much action in the tenure. Finally, gold prices. Bit catching a little today, up about. 5 . It depends where your looking. But really, in stocks and treasuries, ther
Chancellor George Osborne is out his plan for remaining in the eu. How are they look at . How are we looking . Let me show you. This is the bloomberg, and it shows you the fair value calculations on wei. The stocks are down by 1. 1 . Interestingly, the london market looks like it will open better than most, only down by. 9 . We are going to talk a lot about the dax. We are going to talk a lot about oil let me make that absolutely clear. We will come back to this, and what is happening in brazil. In the meantime, lets update you on what you need to know with the bloomberg first world ms. First world news. Reporter brazilian lawmakers have voted to impeach president dilma rousseff. The opposition achieved the 2 3 majority it needed to move the process on to the senate. There, a simple majority would see rousseff suspended as she faces an impeachment trial. Hisge osborne will ramp up campaign to keep britain in the European Union today. The chancellor will highlight a treasury report that