saudi aramco only went public last year but it went straight to the top of the corporate tree and the saudi oil behemoth remains number one among the world's $100.00 most valuable listed companies according to analysts of price waterhouse cooper this is how the top 5 looked at the end of march saudi aramco up top followed by the other 2 members of the trillion dollar club competitors microsoft and apple he switched places during the 1st 3 months of the year and behind them more american tech mages amazon and google are now for bet. the much rankings are the 1st to take into account coronavirus and the disease has left its mark for example amazon shifted up one place compared with the rankings in december helped by a surge in delivery orders from housebound buyers around the world. not every day the. prison for murder for our netflix was another big winner because of the crisis it was one of only 10 companies in the top 100 to increase its value during the quarter as people stuck at home signed up to it streaming service it climbed $27.00 places in the rankings. but for all the when is

noncomplying countries pledge to improve compliance the opec plus meeting is still possible this week saudi aramcodelay initial crude prices sunday pending the opec plus meeting. there has been a lot of will they, won't they awaiting any real confirmation as to before as to whether it will go ahead the plan is to extend the current cuts about i a month huge issues around compliance from their perspective as steve pointed out, personality no doubt is playing a role in opec plus. that is certainly complicating things there that is it for "street signs." you can catch me and annette later on for ecb decision time beginning at 13:40 cet that's it for me, julianna tatelbaum. "worldwide exchange" is up next. across america, business owners are figuring things out. finding new ways to serve customers... connect employees... and work with partners. comcast business is right there with you. with a network that helps give you speed, reliability and security. and enough bandwidth to handle all your connected devices. voice solutions like remote call forwarding and readable voicemail. and safe, convenient ins

as a hired consultant for aramco, he promoted peace between western and saudi interests by way of mutual ambition and shared respect for the divine. through aggressive proliferation of corporate promotion, as well as practical instruction on how to live and labor in a land saturated with god and black gold, eddie not only wrapped aramco in a myth of enlightened capitalism and corporate benevolence, he also animated ground-level operations on the drill sites and in the oil camps with the tenor of intercultural and ecumenical exchange. and one of the more, i think, fascinating lines of work that my research took me into was looking at the interior lives, the internal workings of aramco, especially in the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's. there, william eddie and several other managers, many coming with missionary backgrounds, devised really a whole kind of institutional structure by which islam and protestantism and catholicism could kind of create a shared community, a shared knowledge of one another. for instance, they established the arabian affairs division and housed it with some of the lea

saudi aramco extending its features. gold has fallen pretty sharply.term correction. let's get the first word news. worldwide deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have now passed 400,000. infections above 7 million. china rejects accusations that it withheld details about covid-19. saying it has always been transparent. japan contracted less than the regional estimate. report shows strength. compare with the end of 2019. this means japan has contracted with two straight quarters. opec and its allies have agreed to a one month extension of reduction curbs. allegations of cheating. they say that deal could see brent climbing to $50. it is seen as a win for saudi arabia and russia. opec-plus monitoring committee will meet every month to extend. beginnings says it is the process of dismantling its police force in the aftermath of the death of george floyd. as aajority vote is seen boost to city council members. they are consulting on what should happen next. rishaad: that is a look at the data that comes out over the weekend. a record in may. exports fell

even larger than saudi aramco.art: new high for amazon, left-hand side of the screen. $2790 per share. they are up 25 bucks in the early going this morning. >>> before we leave you, i think i'm right in saying that the big tech stocks are widely held, most, if you've got money in the market, you have probably got some money in apple or microsoft. am i right? susan: we know apple is the most widely held stock on the planet. both of these, by the way, the $1.5 trillion, $1.6 trillion companies, they account for roughly 5% to 4% of the s&p 500 on their own. we know it's weighted by market cap so when these large companies either rise or fall they take the larger benchmarks along with them. it's dictating market action. stuart: very true. let's move on to the airlines. they've got a warning from congress yesterday, not helping them. they are all down this morning. give me more on the story, ashley. ashley: yeah. it was a house subcommittee talking to experts about how the airline industry can operate in a pandemic, eve

aramco is moving ahead with its purchase of saudi chemical giant with block trades of about $70 billionekend. more than 2 billion shares changed hands on sunday as aramco buys into the holding of the kingdom's public investment fund. key partase of it is a of aramco's plan to expand from oil production into chemicals, and other sectors. let's get a check of the markets . trading in new zealand is underway. we are seeing gains for kiwi stocks after four sessions of losses. we are seeing a little bit of pressure for the kiwi dollar and the aussie dollar. we have seen some numbers out of new zealand with services industries contracting at a slower pace in july with a psi of 37.2. take a look at sydney futures which is higher by four tech -- 5.1 -- by .4%. already at the lowest level in over a week. we had already seen two sessions of losses for australian markets. earlier, weioned will be hearing from prime minister scott morrison delivering a speech today. he is expected to give us an update on the deregulation agenda of the jobs package. and he will be focusing on the recovery of austral

saudi arabia's state owned oil joint aramco is reportedly laying off employees in a downturn in the energy market sources told the reuters news agency that hundreds of staff were made redundant this month around code didn't confirm the job cuts but did say that that going to a rapidly changing environment caused by the coup in 1000 pandemic coronavirus shutdowns led to an unprecedented collapse in global demand for oil. more than one and a half 1000000 americans filed for unemployment last week even as businesses continue to reopen that's around $60000.00 fewer applicants than the previous week but the overall rate remains historically high it brings the total number of americans laid off since the virus outbreak in the middle of march to more than 45000000. still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour the planet moves a step closer to wiping out polio for good the world health organization says the nigeria endemic situation there is now over. argentina's government extends its covert $1000.00 measures in areas hardest hit by the corona virus pandemic. also had not fully beach events ass

aramco is moving ahead with its purchase of a saudi chemical giant with block rates of $70 billion overnd. more than 2 billion shares changed hands on sunday as aramco buys into the holding of the kingdoms's investment fund. it is a key part of aramco's plan to expand from oil production into chemicals and other sectors. the richest man in asia has added more backers to his ever-increasing roster of investors. tpg will take a $600 million stake in geo platforms, around 1% of the company. it's the digital arm of reliance industries and has sold about 22% in stakes to buyers including facebook, kkr and silver lake, valuing the company at about $65 billion. the state bank of india is seeking to recover two guarantees from a struggling tycoon reportedly worth $158 million. he has had an offer for guarantees over reliance in patel. and been bailed out before has until thursday to file a reply. let's take a look at asian markets and how they are trading. this part of the world, we had u.s. stock, a tentative rebound after falling the most in 12 weeks on friday. new zealand, gains about 1% and