Certainly in the u. S. We had payrolls numbers on friday. Lets look at how the markets closed in the u. S. A bit of a mixed day, shrugging off some of the geopolitical tensions rising in the region and shrugging off the worse than expected payroll figures. That was worth less than forecasted. S p 500 down almost two point. Dow jones and most seven points. Nasdaq down almost one point. Surprising resilience in the u. S. Equity market. We mentioned geopolitical tension. Other moves on friday gold, the traditional safe haven, was up. First lets look at u. S. Defense stocks. Those all rallied. Gold was up one third of a percentage point on the back of safe haven. Brent and wti posting pretty significant moves, their second week of games. Displaying the usual response to jim littell two geopolitical tensions in the middle east. I mentioned safe haven. Lets look at how that played out in the currency market. Upwardsthe yen moving one fourth of 1 . That was little gains. It pared 0. 6 earlier
Dude. Llo to the 5 a. M. In london. The latest in dubai. Here in hong kong, a look right now, very quickly. Of, equities are offered the dollar on the back foot. Very green. The other big story is yields going back. Japanese 10 year minus two. Right at the zero level where that onceth him and it to be. Flossing in terms of those assets. Crude isnt in focus crude is in focus. The highest level in almost a year. Also in terms of what is happening with gold, that has been extending the highest level in some month. If you look at what is happening with south africa, saw some gains of 2 . Very interesting play and cover under pressure. The metals complex, threemonth low on wednesday. Uncertainty on where the donald trump will affect supply. This was a state of play with the benchmark. A strong start in the earnings season. Stocks, energy doing well. Foreigners are the course of five days, of 370 . A lot happening in the market. Lets get you up to date. Sophie hey dude. Earlier,from a year s
Live from bloombergs European Headquarters. Have a look at the markets on this tuesday session after the biggest rise yesterday since september 2. A choppy session for the stoxx 600. It was higher. It was lower. It came at the worst week for european stocks in over three months. We await the fed and boj. 10 year german yields are down by a couple of basis points. The yield is zero cents the ninth of september. That was the day it crossed the threshold for the First Time Since july. The dollar is down against the yen. The yen is set for three straight quarters of gains, the longest rally since 2011 in the wake of the bojs decision. To adopt negative rates in january. A big day for the boj tomorrow. Nymex crude is down. Oil declining on speculation of an oil glut being sustained amid rising supply from nigeria to the United States. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra authorities have charged a man responsible for the new york bomb attack. Citizen andd u. S. Afgh
Live herethe pulse in london. Im guy johnson. Francine lacqua will join you from new york in the next hour. Lets check in where the markets are now. We started off down. Barclays is the standout story for the ftse 100 which is up, but barclays is down. The stock 600 up by half of 1 . We have reach raced 10 of the losses we made at the start of the year. We are now up 10 . Brent is up. 7 . Some of the Energy Stocks are on the front foot as well this one. Here is first word news. Gauge hasnas factory fallen for a record seventh straight month. Dropped to the weakest in seven years. The dater underscores the challenges for policymakers as they seek to cut overcapacity. The japanese government is being paid to borrow money as it sold 20 billion in debt at an average yield of 0. 2 . U. S. President ial hopefuls are gearing up for super tuesday. Delegates needed for a republican candidate to win the nomination are at stake. 1 3 for democrats. In a dozen states, donald trump, and democratic l
And this could be an embarrassment to Vladimir Putin. Tom no question. There are many countries involved and we had a meeting with the Market Reaction and we do have some stability out. This is happening in the last half an hour. Francine again, we need to see and wehese pilots are did see Market Reaction but we saw it offsite. Lets get the first word news with vonnie quinn. Turkey says it has shot down a russian warplane were Syrian Forces have been fighting rebels. Turkish tv shows video of a plane bursting into flame and then crashing. The pilot ejected from the plane. They say that the pilot was warned 10 times in five minutes that it was violating airspace and it ignored. Turkey has previously warned russia about its planes crossing over into turkish territory. The terror alert in brussels has been extended for a week. Officials are still warning that Islamic State terrorists plan to attack highly Populated Areas like shopping malls. Cities subway at School Systems will gradually