Trump says he and janet yellen are doing well together. This is bloomberg. Im mark barton in london. Stocks marginally higher today, up by a 20th 1 . Overis up a smidgen dollar. Long andng to talk hard about barclays. Look at barclays shares. Down 5. 7 . Deutsche bank down 2 . Getting some details from the norwegian central bank. Rates will be kept unchanged today. Riskslance of economic unchanged since september. Unchanged at 0. 5 . Heres the news with sebastian. Donald trump says hes thinking about getting janet yellen another term as fed chair. Terrific and they are doing very well together. Familiar to people the matter, gary cohn is not open to the fed. Mindel holly faye was speaking asked lucidly to bloomberg. I have a meeting with two banks. They will come and apply for licenses to operate in saudi arabia. Were open. The u. S. House has in responseanctions to irans support for hezbollah. The two bills market first action against iran since President Trump refused to continue the
From three women about their experiences Running Companies and working to promeet increase ownership and nvrsment roles for women in American Business and industry. This is just under an hour. I know everybody is having a good time. And net working and moving the enterprise forward. We have two votes at noon. Well be on a short string here. That shouldnt in any way dent grate the importance of this hearing. Of the Small Business committee. And what were going to do today is explore ways to help women owned businesses reach their full potential and grow the american economy. I want to thank my colleague senator shaheen for working together on this. A matter of great importance to all of us. And to all america. Even though all america sometimes doesnt know it. Fair statement. As you know october is National Women Small Business month. Which sefbs as a great reminder that female entrepreneurs own more than 11 million businesses in the country. And employ more than 9 million workers. They
I know everybody is having a good time. And net working and moving the enterprise forward. We have two votes at noon. Well be on a short string here. That shouldnt in any way dent grate the importance of this hearing. Of the Small Business committee. And what were going to do today is explore ways to help women owned businesses reach their full potential and grow the american economy. I want to thank my colleague senator shaheen for working together on this. A matter of great importance to all of us. And to all america. Even though all america sometimes doesnt know it. Fair statement. As you know october is National Women Small Business month. Which sefbs as a great reminder that female entrepreneurs own more than 11 million businesses in the country. And employ more than 9 million workers. They contribute 1. 6 trillion in sales to the National Economy and capable of more as its Fastest Growing sector. Administrator linda mcman joined me in idaho. And we visited a number of Small Busin
The dow up nearly 100 points. The s p closing at a record high above 2400 for the first time ever. The nasdaq hitting a record and the russell 2000 soaring. Amazon, 20 years after its initi initial market cap taking off a whopping 450 billion leaving traditional retailers in the dust as they struggle to stay afloat. The two names have been somewhat immune to amazons demolition. The two best performing dow stocks this year. They are getting ready to report this week. What do they tell us about the story of the consumer, guy. I think home depot absolutely is. Lowes is cheaper. We can make an argument it should be, shouldnt be. Home depot absolutely stands on its own. Reports tomorrow before the bell. 14 eps growth. I think it is immune. Walmart, different story. But i think the beauty of walmart is the downfall of target. 2015 was an awful year for walmart. 90 to 45. I think it got its footing back because target lost theirs. I think they got the footing back because they got back to wha
Is set to widen, looking into whether the president s limited attempted to slow the Michael Flynn probe. Anna a very warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Our flagship morning show here in the city of london. Us she finds the story the fed told us what theyre going to do incrementally about the Balance Sheet but what is the dollar more focused on . Its down 6 this year. Its focused on this, the economic surprise index in the United States of america is careering towards zero. We have not seen that since the president of the United States was elected, and there is your dollar index, giving it all back. What is the dollar really focused on . Anna focused in the longer term around this. The dollara boost of around what the fed did but that was only after it sold off inflation earlier in the day. That astalk more about we go through the program. There are stony some another stories we want to get to as well. The msci hes in the red, down. 8 . A lot of that has to do with what were see