Lets check on the markets for you. Two hours and 30 minutes away from the market opening in new york and futures are a little bit softer. The s p 500 futures are negative five. Over in europe, the stoxx 600 getting beaten up this week coul. The ftse off by 8 10 of 1 . Heres the dollar ahead of payrolls. The eurodollar 11426. The dollar on the back foot they re. A forecast for low inflation down under. Yields are creeping a little bit lower, down a basis point at 1. 4 for the 10 year. Big moves in the bond market, matt. Matt that is one of the stories we will be focused on throughout the hour. I also want to kick off my stock move percent with what is i goig on in europe. Another loss that was 42 narrower than the same quarter last year. A secondhalf rally as steel prices improved. Man group is the Worlds Largest publicly traded hedge fund. Bywas moved from a cell to a off of Hedge Fund Fee structures. Paschi took fewer bad loan writeoffs as they are up, but it is a penny stock for real
Week spectacular change of policy. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the pulse and welcome to davos. We are live from the World Economic forum right here in switzerland. And it is i would like to say it is warming up. You are an optimist. We have a lot of ceos here. They see some positive things. They see the oil price having an impact. They see easy money continuing for longer. They are focused on what is happening with the ecb. I think oil is the real standout story. For me, it is indecision. Last year, the participants seemed to have a better handle on the situation. Here, they are more lax. There is a lot of uncertainty. The same for keeley. They cant figure out the impact. The pace is what is confusing them at the moment. The oil price has come down so fast. The swiss franc went up so fast. That is what freaks them out. There are a few black swans flying over davos. It is going to be interesting to get a take on that. South africas Central Bank Governor is going to be joining us
Over to david. Thanks. A lot of risk aversion continuing really across the region today. Were continuing to see that basically mostly across some of these markets and fairly pronounced losses i should mention. Looking at the nikkei. Its really about the japanese yen. We see a little strength. Just about at a oneweek high against the dollar. Look at taiwan. Down 1 . Australia, the one segment is keeping things are afloat are the gold mining stocks. Gold is continuing its gains. As the demand. Malaysia getting under way. President obama leaving and flies to manila later on this afternoon. So well continue to watch that closely. I mention it had safe haven trade lets quickly chick in on some things were watching. There we go. Gold above 1300 back about 1300 n ounce yet again. Anaheim ex crude here. Just a tad below 100. U. S. Dollar, dont let it fool you when its green that means the yen is stronger. So thats what the happening. A lot of macro concerns over the tensions in ukraine. Thanks
Alone and are not the only ones who have a bone to pick with donald trump. 38 of americans say they approve of trumps performance, down 5 since september. 58 disapprove. The percentage who strongly disapprove outweighed strong approvers by a margin of 49 to 22. And the numbers show the fraying of the trump base. It shifted from 41 approval to 47 . Whites without a College Degree went to 58 approving of trumps performance to 51 . And joining me, Jennifer Ruben of the Washington Post, and legal scholar chris metzler, and rick tyler, a msnbc political analyst. An allrepublican panelist, this is going to be fun. You are my friend, and what do you think of these numbers and does it spell trouble . It historically spells trouble in the republican midterms, but this is a different time and different presidency and a different sort of following that he has in poll numbers that i have seen in different states. His following is following him, and they are still pretty firm. They have not if anyt