Clashes. President trump calls for change. Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency starts 2018 with a slide for the First Time Since 2015. Has it peaked in the shortterm . Lets talk about the first trading session of the year. The real story thus far is what is happening in china. A heads up of the story in europe and the united states. We will see a strong start stateside. It was a weak close to 2017, we will be up. 4 on the data. 2 on the s p the ftse 100 could be a laggard, but not by much. Asia iscy coming out of a relatively strong one. The picture out of china looking good. The data are coming through at the get go of the year looking favorable. We can talk about that and then we have the performance of the eight shares doing well in hong kong. On the gmm, we get a picture around what is going on. The dollar is the week bank theme running through these ofkets as it was on the back 2017. The week eight shares up by 1. 8 already. Singapore trading strongly, malaysia isnt. Will be interesting t
A conflicte is between the politics and the economics here. To my knowledge, nobody has asked for clearing to move from a business standpoint. A very warm welcome. I am anna edwards. S they met in june. They discussed, and they were divided in terms of federal reserve, the Balance Sheet. They are sticking to the gradual pace. We dug deep into the roots of what is going on. Anna loves this chart. The story of this chart, this is about the influence station Inflation Expectations from the fed. Saw, there wasu this view inflation was going to return and there were more officials who viewed the risk waited on the upside. That has shifted. There are now three cardmembers who think the risks are to the downside. This is about a shift in expectations. This is the doubting thomas factor. Anna they dont understand why inflation is so weak. The timing on the Balance Sheet, an open question. Morning, theres seems to be lots of say and not a lot to show for it. The geopolitical tensions that exist
Coming up on thursday. David historic. Share thiset market check. Lets get you up to speed. Futures now higher this morning. S p 500 futures up about the exploits. Now futures up 33. A rally in the a rally in europe. Switch at the board to much longer dollar story on most of the crosses this morning. Dollar yen inching higher. Euro sterling, brexit spread, we will talk about that in about 10 minutes. At inches away from that 80 pence level on friday. Treasury yields up a basis point at 1. 78 . Lets get over to vonnie quinn for first world news. First word news. Vonnie more flights scheduled to leave the Brussels Airport a day after it reopened. Only three flights the parted yesterday. Flight schedule to the u. S. And africa today. Because of the damage caused by the attack, the airport can handle less than 20 of its normal passenger load. Investigators in europe say least what two members of the terrorist cell to the paris and brussels attacks are still at large. Officials tell the jou
Policy politeness. Draghi holds the door open for yellen. Will she stepped through . Through . He stepped weve got the fed on wednesday. His is a bloomberg report the boj on more Japanese Equities than the worlds biggest asset managers. We asked what is left on the Shopping List . Good morning hans. We have a big week it comes to the central bank story. Politics fascinating and germany. , obamathese leaders corralling everybody in the same room. What are they going to be talking about . Hans theyre going to be talking about the middle east, syria. More the industry side of things, the economic side of things, they are talking past voters. It is remarkable to me when obama and merkel, they are talking free trade and yet very few german politicians are willing to publicly say this is going to get done. Everybody is playing defense on trade ahead of these waning hours of the obama presidency. That is the challenge moving forward. Guy it is going to be interesting to see what the subject a
7 00 if youre watching in amsterdam. Get to the phillips breaking numbers. , 374 quarter adjusted million euros. They are saying that the lighting separation process is well on track and that is a key topic of conversation. They are trying to exit the lighting business. Whether that is an ipo or a sale. How well is the medical equipment part of the business doing as they are trying to suffer out the lighting separate out the lighting part . They are looking to streamline their costs, adding on Servicing Agreements and incorporating more technology into their health care products. They have hired banks to prepare for this possible ipo of the liking business. We will speak to the chairman and ceo at ex 40 this morning on countdown. Just for a little bit of comparison, that revenue number looks to be ahead of estimates. That is the Early Morning earnings season that started monday. Over in asia, a conversation a combination of oil prices and a strengthening yen. Lets put that in a little