Thursday as washington awaits. Youre right, the ecb will be very important. Jonathan ferro made clear to me the optionality that madame lagarde has is extraordinary. Weve got claims at 8 30 washington time, new york time. That will be a precursor for jobs day tomorrow. All of this is overwhelmed by the historic moment. All i can tell you, just one vignette, francine it was extraordinary to see the handwritten note by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff yesterday, to his officers and his troops. That was truly an historic moment. Francine we will spend a good amount of time talking about the military, given what we heard and general mattis esper. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Leighann good morning, francine. As you were discussing, President Trumps former defense sayingry, jim mattis, is the president misuses the military and is dividing the nation. He also said the country must reject those who make a mockery of the constitution. President
Hong kong, the latter saying it will maintain security and division. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The market is actually pausing a little bit. If you look at the global stock seen, it isve pausing for breath today. The dow rebounding. The dollar actually rebounding from its weakest level since early march. Treasuries are pretty much study. Backup of 1 for the First Time Since march. A lot of the focus on stagnant asian, and a lot of the focus on the euro, depending on what the ecb does. The ecb plans to boost monetary stimulus, and of course we will look at jobs and employment data. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Saysr general jim mattis the president is trying to divide the american people, accusing him of making a mockery of the constitution. He publicly oppose the president was the idea of deploying the military to contain pro
To matters of the other end of the premier league table. Arsenals are hoping to move three points clear at the summit for 2h hours at least. They are taught after beating wolves on saturday. They now face chelsea on saturday. They now face chelsea on tuesday. There are five games to go and arteta says his side will give it their all. Go and arteta says his side will give it their all. Were in a great osition give it their all. Were in a great position in give it their all. Were in a great position in the give it their all. Were in a great position in the premier give it their all. Were in a great position in the premier league. | position in the premier league. Weve been like this for nine months now. I want to give it a real goal in purely determined to do what is in purely determined to do what is in our hands to lift the trophy. Tomorrow, were going to have a very tough opponent and we will try to overcome that again. The tough opponent and we will try to overcome that again. The Nu
Work, tuc researchers found that shamefully, those parents and carers, often women, requesting Flexible Working all too often found themselves punished instead with fewer hours, fewer opportunities to progress and some even losing their jobs. So, the next Labour Government will take action right across the board to will take action right across the boa rd to help will take action right across the board to help protect people in the work place. Although wed like to see another general election as soon as possible that delivers more labour gains than this timea labour delivers more labour gains than this time a Labour Government, in the meantime, well challenge the government in parliament and outside every step of the way to defend working people, stand by you, the trade unions battling for peoples rights day in and day out. Applause. Rights are won by all of us together. But they have to be co nsta ntly together. But they have to be constantly defended and enforced and thats why we are
The details of which are closely guarded but statements by the Prime Minister in Downing Street are usually reserved for significant announcements. Our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in Downing Street for us. Norman, the speculation is around an early election. What are you hearing . We have one unconfirmed source telling the bbc that theresa may looks set to announce the Snap General Election on june the may looks set to announce the Snap General Election onjune the 8th. That is roughly about six weeks away. Ignoring previous promises by number 10 that she would not go for an early summer election, she would stay the whole course through to 2020, repeatedly dismissing the idea. But we are now in a situation where some Opinion Polls giving the conservatives the lead of more than 20 over the labour party. There is a view that mrs may could have decided it is never going to be a better moment than now to go for a General Election. It would give her a huge mandate but were t