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100 debt financed. Is draghi now driving mma . Good morning. Less than 30 minutes until the European Market equity open. But show everybody what is happening, in terms of where we think we will be opening this morning and a much more positive picture for european equities. The ftse 100 is up by 1 . Tehe cac is up by. 8 . The dax is up by 0. 5 . Equities, at least back on the front foot, though it has been a difficult few days, hasnt it . Caroline it certainly has been. That we have a little bit of Risk Appetite in asia. Talking of mma deals. Being fueled by that ceaheat debt. Mma . E ecb driving equities are pushed higher as Energy Stocks do particularly well, but there is some risk aversion. Movement into that haven that is gold. Software see, avast for 1. 3sing avg billion. It is so easy to access the debt markets right now. First, lets get to the bloomberg first worrd news. Reporter u. K. Business confidence sank to a four year l ow after the brexit vote. This is the lowest since de
Well as eric jackson of Spring Owl Asset Management and an outspoken critic of management teams, including yahoo and viacomm. Earnings in revenue beat expectations. A big win for Ceo Jack Dorsey who, of course, runs two companies. The stock of square down more than 20 so far this year. Prior to todays move. I did speak to dorsey last quarter about the path to profitability. Square has been a very strong and really predictable business for us. And were really happy about that because we feel like we have a real understanding of how the business grows and what it takes to move it forward and can really understand what to do next. Predictable, of course being the keyword. How much of a victory is this quarter for jack dorsey . Short term its a great victory, longterm its a problem because square catches mass of competition from everywhere. And not only is card readers now, you have apple pay and new infrastructure. A lot of new technologies that could be developed that could really hurt t
Mr. Ambassador, in the run up to the recent u. S. China strategic and economic dialogue, there were a lot of press reports of the several issues that would be on the table. One of those included the ongoing solar panel dispute and resulting poly silicone tariffs from china. However in the fact sheets that came out, theres emphasis on steel and some of the other issues. But i saw no mention of the solar issue. I was just wondering if you could give us a status report on where that stands. Thank you. We did discuss it while i was there. Weve continued to discuss the issue. Its a long standing outstanding dispute. Its something we would like to try to find a way of settling and our discussions will continue. And ill see him in shanghai in a couple of weeks. A question over here in the back and then well take the one in the front. Hi. Ken biddler. This week president obama is going for the summit. Canada has not taken a position on the tpp. Its the only of 12 countries to have not stated w
Dave clark is on assignment. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Lets look at weather and traffic. Steve, a little warm . Yeah, a little warm inland. Theres a lot of fog out there. Thats making things tough on visibility. Here we go again. 60s to 90s. Heres sal. Right now were working at highway 4. Slow traffic already sunny in baypoint as you head up to concord. Were looking at traffic on interstate 80. It looks good. We have a couple of trouble spots. Well get to those in a few minutes. Back to the desk. We begin with developing news from oakland. An 8yearold girl has been killed and two others have been wounded in a shooting. One woman was also injured in the gunfire. Ktvus Paul Chambers joins us from the crime scene to tell us what weve learned so far from investigators. Good morning, paul. Reporter good morning. A family is grieving after this happened last night in this apartment complex behind it. Its correct. An 8yearold child was killed. We can take a look at video here, and we pe