Would be leaving the eu. The other news this afternoon there are reports of fighting in syria despite turkeys agreement to suspend its military offensive against the kurds. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with jane dougall. Plenty of rugby to keep us occupied this weekend. Yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him ina fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him in a full strength side for the quarter match against france in the robbie world cup, well be hearing from head coach. Thanks jane and chris has all the weather hows the weekend looking . The weekend is looking a bit better, lots of showers around on sunday, less on sunday. We will be looking at hailstorms that have hit cornwall recently. Good afternoon and welcome from westminster, where the Prime Minister is in a race to try to persuade mps to back his new Brexit Agreement before tomorrows vote in parliament. Borisjohnson says hes very con
Well. The youre is lower, bonds, commodities and cts your final klee columns. G. M. Has sold its business to ferriero. The price is 2. 8 billion. It is the first substantial step away from the candy industry. It includes butter finger and baby rutta brands. It is the First Investment since Mark Schneider since he took the helm last year. Nestle focusing on health, coffee, pet food and water. That is nestle. Lets talk about emerging market equities. Theriot rising today, highest in almost a decade. Stock contrarians are warning the good times may not last. The chief executive of doubleline says the rally in the dollar will probably be a setback. Goldman sachs and ubs has cited a possible downturn in the sector. But the msci emerging markets goes from strength to strength as evidenced by this chart, as well as the saudi stock benchmark, climbing today, highest level since october of 2015 on expectations that the country will be added to emerging markets. The share gains. 2 last year vers
Eurodollar, 1. 20 two. A lot of the conversations today will focus on the dollar. Im looking at gold for a second day, down a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we talked doing business in italy and natural gas. Later on, we also speak with margaret from the World Economic forum. She joins us to talk global risks. Plus, janet henry talks trumps first year with us. She the global chief economist there. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra the u. S. Secretary of state offered a sobering assessment about the possibility of war with north korea. Madeillerson said advances the situation very tenuous. He was speaking in vancouver, where top diplomats gathered to explore new ways to enforce sanctions. North koreans know our channels are open, and they know where to find us. But a sustained cessation of threatening behavior is necessary indicator of whether the regime is truly ready to pursue a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the Security Threat it has
Rishaad looking at the state of the markets, in flux in this part of the world. On wall street, equities ending a winning streak, and this time we cant point the finger at the bond market. Earnings are the primary culprit this time around. A major blow as it has really had some missteps taking on amazon. Haidi a pretty mixed picture going into the proper asian trading session that is underway. We are still watching the bond market. A huge week as u. S. Markets came back from president s day. We had a round of treasury auctions. Take a look at this chart. Pretty staidlly a session. 2. 9 ,year hitting about inching closer to 3 . Twoyear, twomonth and threemonth, they went up to rates we havent seen since 2008. Something of a litmus test in terms of how quickly and how disruptively these yields could rise. It is not how high the yields will go, but how quickly the bond markets will selloff, that will have implications. We will have that 30 minutes away from the open in hong kong. Singapor
A medal gb in the Winter Olympics . Yes, it has been a little bit in the coming. A bronze in the mens skeleton courtesy of dom parsons. There could be another at least in the womens event with Lizzie Yarnold and laura deas in contention half way through their competition. Details later. We will see you later on. And stav has the weather. A decent weekend ahead . Clear skies has the weather. A decent weekend ahead . Clear skies across has the weather. A decent weekend ahead . Clear skies across the country today. There are some changes as it later. Join me later for details. Also coming up this afternoon. Building bridges the team from chester zoo helping the endangered orangutans of borneo move around their habitat. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Im ben brown. President trump is expected to visit the scene of the Florida High School shooting in the next few days. Police say a former pupil who was expelled from the school has now confessed to the massacre, which left 17 people