The french carmaker grapples with the auto market slowdown. This follows as nissan reported a 99 plunge in profit. Plans to carve out phone towers into a separate unit and will consider an ipo to cut that. Plus, delay delivery. Amazon forecasts income below expectations. Alphabet and intel jump in late trading after beating expectations. Good morning. Matt good morning to you, less than a halfhour hour to the start of trading. Take a look at the bunds. This is something i was talking about. You saw a reversal in the bond yields. As we were heading into the ecb meeting, yields were coming down. Investors were looking for the possibility of a cut. Then we interviewed the german finance minister where i circled in red. And you saw but yields go up again. Thats because he says there is no crisis. He sees it coming back to the economy once these manmade problems, as he describes them, are solved. Meaning once the char not u. S. U. S. China trade war is over, he sees it coming back to german
Francine welcome to bloomberg surveillance. These are your markets. A lot of focus is on the Corporate News and a lot of the focus on the data we have from the u. S. European stocks are pretty much unchanged. Technology stocks are better than expected. But some of them are still disappointed. If you look at it, a lot of it is stock by stock. Eurodollar at 1. 1134. And then you can see the pound at 1. 2428 after jeanclaude said no. Coming up, right here, we hear from the renault chief executive. That interview in around 15 minutes from now, plus, we speak to the u. S. Secretary of state, and later on, to the starbucks chief executive. All of that coming up and much more. Lets get straight to first word news in london. Governments need to pitch in with fiscal measures if conditions in europe keep deteriorating. That is according to mario draghi. He signals more monetary support in september buts comments suggest the central bank is getting close to the limits of its power. The outlook is
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