Further. Bp shares jump after it sheds alaska assets for 5. 6 billion pulling out of the state after 60 years as it seeks to boost its Balance Sheet thomas cook agrees to key terms of a rescue package with stake holders sending shares sharply lower as brokers warn it may lead to a delisting of the stock a very warm welcome to street signs big day in italy not only on a political front but we have a little bit of data on the confidence front we have Italian Consumer confidence for the month of august thats fallen to 111. 9 versus july at 113. 3. In terms of business confidence, that has fallen to 98. 9 versus 101. 2 in july so that is below the 100 level. Thats fallen to 9. 7 a ton census looking for 99. 8 and thats dropl whiche have seen in july. So moral taking a hit. He called the end to the coalition and called for a snap election now you just saw there on the screen, the euro trading slightly higher versus the dollar you can see its fairly resilient. Let me bring you up to speed in
The offshore renminbi is trading at 7. 1704 right now, so another significant weakening. The 10 year yield in the u. S. , 1. 47 . It got as low as 1. 45 earlier in the session. The vix above 20 today. Lets get back to brexit. Prime minister Boris Johnson striking a storm of controversy with a plane to suspend parliament for five weeks. The queen has approved the suspension. Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn is vowing to fight the move. When parliament does meet on his timetable next week, the first thing we will do is attempt legislation to prevent what he is doing. Secondly, we will challenge him with a motion of confidence at some point. Vonnie joining us from london is bloombergs jess shenkman. It seems like he has a lot of negative things to say, but never really has too many positive alternatives to put out there. But hes not the only one in this case. The speaker is calling this, and im quoting, a constitutional outrage. What is the likelihood that this gets stopped . Reporter yo
Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The number of patients on Hospital Wards has been at unsafe levels in nine out of ten nhs trusts in england this winter, according to figures obtained by the bbc. Some hospitals were operating at close to full capacity, putting increased pressure on the number of beds available. All week we are taking an in depth look at the state of the nhs in a series of special reports. Heres our Health Correspondent, jane dreaper. Its been a very difficult winter at Yeovil Hospital in somerset. Like many other hospitals in england, theyve had to battle Behind The Scenes here to find enough free beds in recent weeks. You can get periods, particularly over the winter period, when you are managing bed by bed, minute by minute, and teams are having to spend a lot of time and Energy Running around finding a bed for the next patient that needs it. And moving patients between beds isnt ideal, we dont like doing it unless we really have to, but sometimes you have to prioritise
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, to describe new england palt trots comefrombehind super bowl win as one of the greatest comebacks in sports history almost doesnt do it justice. Trailing the Atlanta Falcons by 24 points in the Third Quarter they beat them. It was an almost unimaginable outcome led by super bowl mvp tom brady. Don champion has our report. Reporter the new England Patriots are celebrating another victory after the greatest comeback in super bowl history. After falling behind the pats roared back in the second half scoring 31 unanswered points. The game went to overtime and the patriots scored quickly to win. Patriots win the super bowl reporter tom brady now has more super bowl wins than any qb in nfl history, and it cast a spell in which the nfl suspended him in the first four games for a deflated football. This is unequivocally the sweetest. Reporter nearly 72,000 people packed
Treatment from the government. And taking a traditional taste to the world. One companys promoting an essential ingredient of japanese cuisine. But must overcome unique challenges in overseas markets. There was a large power outage in tokyo on wednesday afternoon. Tokyo electric Power Company said at one point about 350 households were affected. The utility says a fire broke out at one of its facilities near tokyo. An underground cable was damaged. Its investigating whether the fire caused the outage. No injuries were reported. About 200 Traffic Signals were not working and officers were deployed to direct traffic. Some people were trapped in elevators. Government offices in central tokyo were also affected. The Tokyo High Court an District Court were without power for about 30 minutes. Official s had to reschedule soe of the trials. Hanada was in a meeting. They looked surprised but continued talking. Former chinese soldiers have staged a protest in beijing. Many are unhappy with the