On the agenda . Think north korea. The focus. Trump says just fed focus. Trump says fed focus. Trump says sunday that powell, are in the running. Matt what stock futures are doing in the half hour until the start of trading. You see we are up across the board, not a lot of moves. There is not a lot of directions to riskon riskoff. We dont see a lot of moves in bonds. Not in the bund or treasuries either. Take a look at the argentinian 100 year bond. I have this up on the btv screen. You can access it on the terminal. We can see the yields here at almost 7 and this is one proxy to look at for what investors think of argentina. President won a big boost. His reform agenda [no audio] story is whatst is happening in the nikkei. Abe. In by on a win by you see the yen coming under pressure as well. On a real tear at the moment, the nikkei. The other story i want to draw your attention to, what is happening with the turkish lira which has been hit hard overnight. We have seen more negative u.
Percent. In europe also seeing a bit of a mixed picture. The ftse is higher, up by 0. 3 points in france, the cac is under pressure in germany, the stocks are Weaker Crude Oil prices up yesterday for the sixth session in a row this morning up once again up 21 cents to 44. 96 blue apron pricing an ipo last night, 10 a share. Thats the low end of the reduced range the Company Announced yesterday, well below the estimates of 15 to 17 a share. Blue apron raised 300 million ahead of its debut on the New York Stock Exchange later today. Thats a third less than it had hoped. Staples going private. They are being bought basic moth by Sycamore Partners they will pay 10. 25 a stair r. Share f share for strappal staples the buyout comes two years after a federal judge blocked staples planned merger with office depot on antitrust grounds. There was a deal when it came to supermarkets, would supermarkets now be in a stronger vthanks to amazon lets talk banking. The fed clearing capital plans for 34
Prompting reduced speeds on interstate 89 from new london to lebanon where crews have been out treating the roads for much of the afternoon. Cherise state police say they have been busy but no serious accidents to report. The same system that has brought snow from new jersey to pennsylvania continues to move across the northeast. Adam for more on what we can expect here lets check in , with meteorologist Hayley Lapoint. Hayley particularly in the western part of the state and the Higher Elevations. Let me take you to the satellite and radar. You can see this twisting and turning in the atmosphere. There is a lowpressure system on top of us. With cold air coming down out of the northwest and west, that is transitioning any leftover rain showers to snow showers. Even in southern locations like been reports of snow mixing in with the drizzle and showers. In the monadnock region, that has been ongoing for hours. In northern New Hampshire in the Higher Elevations. You can see the spin and l
Tell us if you would or would not and why. There are the lines. You can tell us if you would reelect your members of congress on our social media pages. Focused post on our facebook page. The headline of the Washington Post. The headline says mccain walks tightrope in tough reelection race. Alex bolton is with us to talk about that race and others. Guest good morning. Host tell us about senator mccains race. Guest he is running against kelly ward. It is a very tight race. Actually, no, it is not a tight race. He is up by 26 points over ward according to the cnn poll, but it is a very nasty race. Ward went on television recently and said mccain is too old to be reelected and she also made the point, as a former position, she said, i know the average is notn males lifespan 86 years old, which is how old mccain would be at the end of his next term if reelected. She is saying, it is time for a change, he has been in washington way too long. As i mentioned, the cnn poll showed him up by 26
Good morning. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you. Good morning. Great to have you with us. Lets check on Global Market action. Yesterday a little bit soft around about a third of 1 . But we were off the lows of the day by the close finding a little bit of impetus in the second half of the day. Were higher by sort of similar amount to what we decline yesterday, 35 points for the dow, 3. 4 for the s p and nasdaq 16 points higher. Lets have a look at the pound sterling dropping to the weakest level against the dollar since june 1985, the plunge in the currency coming off the uk Prime Minister teresa may said she would trigger brexit at the start, the brexit discussions by the end of march. Were down half a percent. We were down the best part of 1 earlier but half an hour ago we got uk Construction Data which was showing positive growth for the first time in quite a few months. So that was unexpect pandemic come off the lows of the day but still down as we were yesterday as we were over