dhl group has reported second-quarter beat estimates.aised the lower and of its four year guidance range. joining us to discuss is the cfo melanie price. what is the main thing you want the market to take away from these earnings? melanie: good morning and thank you very much for having me. we are pleased with our earnings for the second quarter even though they are down compared to the second quarter of 2023 watch was an extraordinary quarter. the normalization of the earnings level is developing in line with what we had anticipated for the first half of the year. we now have ebit of 3.3 billion euros after the first six months and we have narrowed our guidance range for 2023 and increased the lower end to 6.2 billion. there is still a lot of uncertainty. that is why we have quite a wide range of our guidance but we are confident we will deliver between 6.2 billion euros and 7 billion euros for 2023. lizzy: we have seen a lot of strike action. how much will that affect these results? melanie: i think the biggest area is the first half o

dhl telling us freight rates are lower.e two back to the economy, what is it? kriti: things are ultimately slowing just not as fast as we thought. we are on recession watch but not saying it will be at the end of 2023. that will be significant when it comes to that. things are slowing down. just not to the same extent that i think a lot of folks were forecasting. guy: i was told you didn't want another question but maybe you did. alix: now we are going to be up against the break. i have to wonder the countercyclical dhl's doing. if it happened if the slowdown will be there to pick up the rebound. kriti: in any country globally there the first in. if you do start to see that pick up dhl is benefiting that position. guy: great stuff. thank you. dhl stop getting hit hard today. kriti gupta, thank you very much. this is bloomberg. ♪ 76% of 23andme health customers surveyed reported taking healthier actions. because they know health isn't just a future state. health happens now. start your dna-powered health journey today with p

the german logistics and delivery company dhl has reported a fall in its revenue and earnings blamede volume of goods to be shipped. the company's shares fell 4% in early trading as the company reported a fall in revenue of i6%. manufacturing activity in the eurozone fell injuly at the fastest pace since the big squeeze of covid—i9. that's despite many factories cutting their prices sharply. the figures are from hcob�*s purchasing manager's index, and show considerable weakness in germany, along with worrying data from france and italy. they're the top three eurozone economies. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter, i'm @bbcbenthompson see you very soon. goodbye. have got harley davidson teapot. we saw the man make it. we saw how hard it was room to make it. you and your one is... diana. she my favourite. people say why colette teapot, and i say why not? people say there are wide and wonderful things. we have some that are tiny sizes and we got a 12 foot teapot in the garden. you will never believe the things that people can make. this museum conta

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dhl group with the company raising the lower end of the full-year guidance down 3.9%.aimler truck is down 2% daimler following an upgrade in july we got good news less than a month ago from the company this morning, nothing incremental to drive the shares higher from here hsbc earlier today, overnight, delivered a strong set of results hiking guidance and delivering a really impressive profit for the quarter shares up 2.7% bp also performing well this morning. let's dive into the oil major. bp has boosted the dividend by 10% and launching a share buyback of $1.5 billion. the energy giant saw second quarter profit fall 70% from a year ago amid fuel prices. ceo bernard looney spoke to cnbc >> that is correct that is what we are doing. what we said we will do this year is return 60% of our surplus cash to shareholders through buybacks that's what we did today by announcing a $1.5 billion buyback program for the second quarter. additionally, because of the confidence that the board has in the performance of the company, the outlook for the company and importantly, the redu

thought we had gotten past the supply disruption with things getting better, but this will add to that dhl down 24%, joumanna. >> we are keeping a close eye on the manufacturing numbers in europe which are also beginning to soften as well. the situation like this is not going to help. arabile, thank you for the overview >>> coming up on "street signs," hoping to shake hands on a.r.m more on that after the break ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. hi. i'm shannon storms bador. when we started selling my health products online our shipping process was painfully slow. then we found shipstation. now we're shipping out orders 5 times faster and thanks to shipstation's discounted rates we're saving a ton. honestly, we couldn't do it without s

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