Moment. It is moving markets, but theres a lot of stuff percolating. The Dollar Strength really has my attention. I would go to the news released in the 5 00 hour of the reports that mr. Netanyahu met with the crown prince of saudi arabia. These really havent been vetted out by the israeli or saudi government yet, but i wonder if that helped a little bit as well. Jonathan i dont know about that, tom. News, dollaraccine weakness, can we touch about that a little bit more . The dollar taking out the lows on dxy. Es, we will see how bbdx do and the others. What i would note is the mexican peso. Comes through, hits 20 this morning. That is just one little snapshot of the complexity of e. M. Pairs doing well. Dm,than from e. M. To everything stronger against the u. S. Dollar. Yields up a couple of basis points. Lisa, good morning to you. Supply coming through the week. Lisa we will be getting 190 billion of debt, fiveyear notes. I dont know if you did this reading over the weekend about the
Does october start most interesting. As you well know, the president of the United States at walter reed hospital. He has been tweeting actively this morning, almost as much as jon ferro. In the markets, i would say weve got a bit of a celebration. Futures up 21, dow futures up 184. What do you make of the markets this morning . Jonathan a strong correlation between the president s health, his tweeting activity, and equity markets. We hope we avoided the local crisis, the chaos that many people were thinking about last friday. Up 0. 6 on the s p. In the bond market, this is where things get interesting for treasuries headed into election day. If the polling remains the way the polling looks right now, at a national level, the 14 point lead joe biden at the moment, at some point you do start to think about prices in the fiscal stuff. The key risk at the moment, i am catching up with Henry Peabody a little later tom on one of your other properties. Jonathan his view is that the risk the
A zoo in the us got a special Christmas Present this year , when a critically endangered black rhino was born on christmas eve. The male calf arrived at the Potter Park Zoo in michigan, to 12 year old mother, doppsee. It is the first time a black rhino has been born there in the zoos 100 year history. They have yet to give the calf a name, but have said he is nursing well and the public will be able to see him in the new year. Now its time for a look at the weather with matt. Dry and mild conditions set to develop across the uk and experience. Wettest and windiest across scotland and Northern Ireland. Bursts of heavy rain continue east, a wet afternoon for orkney and shetland, drive across the rest of scotland and Northern Ireland but they will never be too following from rain and drizzle. Some patchy rain across england and wales, lots of cloud around, coolest in the east where winds are lightest, temperatures up to 12 degrees in the west. Gales in the western pa rt of degrees in the
Dancing on ice, is to feature a same sex couple as contestants when it starts its latest series this evening. The steps singer Ian H Watkins is teaming up with professional dancer matt evers. Our correspondent lizo mzimba reports. Dancing on ice is one of tvs most popular shows, often producing memorable moments of all different kinds. Ian h watkins and matt evers have been rehearsing for weeks and when the programme returns tomorrow night, theyll be the first same sex couple seen competing on a prime time british show like this. Its about time. If we had Something Like this when we were children, maybe i wouldnt have felt so isolated. I wouldnt have run away from home. You know, in everyday life we see gay couples and we see same sex couples. So it should be no different with what we are trying to do. It something that has already been embraced in other countries on similar shows. Israels dancing with the stars featured a same sex celebrity couple back in 2009. Last months strictly he
Very mild. Whatever you are doing, you can find our forecast at the website. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The duke of edinburgh has left hospital in time to spend christmas with the queen at sandringham. The queen will use her Christmas Day message to say the past year has been quite bumpy adding that small steps can heal divisions. Thousands of volunteer firefighters will spend Christmas Day battling wildfires that are still ravaging australia. A warning from nhs england to parents keep button batteries the type found in toys, festive lights, and musical christmas cards away from children. Now on bbc news, a special programme featuring five women photographers who have offered glimpses into rarely seen lives in through the Lens Photography has the ability to shine a spotlight, giving us an insight into people and places we would never otherwise have seen. In this programme im going to introduce you to five remarkable female photographers working today who have captured worl