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Monetary policy of the ecb will continue to be extraordinarily accommodative. Anchor a very warm welcome everybody to bloomberg daybreak europe. It is friday morning, our flagship morning show. I am anna edwards. Matt and i am at miller in berlin. Quite a night for markets. Quite a rocky ride. The missile over japan sent a lot of people running first aid haven trades that kind of fizzled out. Ina certainly putting guam range. That did not seem to make the market worry more this time than last time. Just to tell you briefly what is coming up in the program, let us get our viewers up to speed. Jpmorgan spoon founder tim martin joins us for the first interview of the day to talk about earnings and brexit. But matt, you dive into what has been moving markets are not moving markets over the last 24 hours or so. You see the second Missile Launch in japan in as many months, putting guam within range of these missiles. We did see it move the yen. This chart is charting came and the end. And th
Speech this morning. And alibabas ambition. The chairman tells bloomberg the Company Needs to embrace a to globalmindset expansion. Matt less than half an hour from the start of stock trading here in europe. We are already trading bunds. Futures down across the board. You dont see a lot of enthusiasm for risk assets there. If you look at bunds, you see a little buying but make change ofs screen to a oneday shot what has been stuck in a tight range. 0. 407. Still at just a tiny bit under where we were at the close yesterday. Arent really moving, equities arent really moving. In fact, from the korea story, it doesnt seem like anything is moving. It is still the bank of england pushing markets around a little bit. Guy i think the market had anticipated we would get this missile fired at some point. We thought it would be last weekend, we got a risk rally round of the fact it didnt happen. The market got used to the idea and when the missile was finally pushed into the air, as a result, we
Im nejra cehic. Still seeing a little reaction from the fomc meeting. Ive got the stoxx 600. We were seeing stronger gains. It softened a little bit. We are still up 0. 2 . Stronger dollar against most major peers. Bloomberg dollar index up 0. 1 . It did gain more than that in yesterdays session. The 10year yield rising two basis points. We are at 2. 27 . Pretty steady right now. Also keeping an eye on crude oil. We are a little lower in todays session. 50. 52 dollars a barrel. Weve also got breaking news for you. Leaving its key rate unchanged at 0. 5 . Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian the bank of japan kept its monetary stimulus unchanged, but a dovish board member opposes the decision. He argued there was little chance of reaching the banks inflation target and the effects of the current yield curve program werent strong enough. That was an unexpected dissension on a board chosen by Prime Minister shinzo abe. The u. S. Secretary of state has told european allies the
Characters in a bid to have wider debate. Kathleen i dont care how many twitter characters you have come it would take a massive tweet to tweet out so much in Janet Yellens speech today. When you look at the citations, the charts, 20,000 pages. I think she had one message, the fed is going to hike again, even if inflation is below target. Yvonne pretty much. I wonder what the president thinks about that twitter development. But then again, you mentioned about janet yellen. She is onopart a twopart mission, normalizing the Balance Sheet. We saw the market move on this, futures up to 70 for december. Kathleen lets look at what the stock market it, rather muted, but everyone digesting what janet yellen said. You have the dow closed flat. 22,284. 0. 2 of500 gained about a point. The nasdaq up nine points to 6,380. Yvonne big movers were in the bond market, yields heading higher and the dollar. Lets see how things are faring in new zealand. Just getting underway in the last hour two hours,