Daily Business Wrap - World's elite head to Davos - video Dailymotion

World leaders and analysts will be gathering in Davos this week to discuss economic challenges, and earnings season kicks off.

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00:00The world's top politicians, leaders and economists will be gathering this week at

00:05Snowy Davos in Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum, where topping the lists

00:10of topics they will be discussing will be climate change, globalization and finally

00:15mental health.

00:16And that is what they're scheduled to discuss, but there will be some elephants in the room,

00:19most prominently US-China trade tensions and Brexit.

00:23And that is because the top politicians in these two battles will not be at Davos.

00:27US President Donald Trump benched the White House theme that was supposed to go to Davos

00:31and Prime Minister Theresa May from the UK also said she will not be going to Davos this

00:35year in order to focus on Brexit.

00:37In other news, it's earnings season both locally and internationally, so expect companies to

00:42be reporting their results for the fourth quarter of 2018 this week.

00:45We've already seen results from Emirates NBD from Dubai and internationally we're expected

00:50to see results from Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, Ford and IBM this week.

00:54So keep your eyes peeled for those.

00:56You can check us out at gulfnews.com forward slash business.

00:59This has been the Daily Business Wrap.

01:00Thank you so much for watching.