Market is expecting . President trump delays his latest tariff hike on china by two weeks, and bloomberg learns that asian could allow companies goods. Importing farm and come a ab inbev is said to be looking to raise 5 billion for its unit in hong kong. Less than half an hour to go until the start of a european trade. Good morning and welcome. Lets look at futures and where they are heading this morning. Riskon seems to be the scene this morning. No surprise when he see what is happening in asia when you coider the symbol losing from what we are seeing on trade right now between the u. S. And china. No surprise are seeing some moves higher indoeuropean features. The screen shows us the moves that are outside our normal trading standards. We the equity story on the left side. Looks a little mixed, but positive for the markets in the asian session. Chinese markets of the more than 1 . We have seen it in the two tariffs by the u. S. , our colleagues have also brought up a move that china
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Comes to the opec meeting on thursday. Spread coming in at 57 basis points. And bitcoin. Is it going to be 10,000 today . Time for the morning brief. At 8 00 this morning eastern steven mnuchin, William Dudley on the hill of the sec will all be speaking in new york at a conference on the structure of the u. S. Treasury market. At 10 00 all eyes will be on capitol hill as Senate Begins confirmation hearings for Jerome Powell. And President Trump continues to campaign for a tax overhaul. He will be going back to the white house for a meeting with congressional leadership on how to avoid a government shutdown. Thats all coming up today. The big story into ec is Federal Reserve nominee for the chair, Jerome Powell. The gap appears to be narrowing between short and longterm Interest Rate raising concerns on the future of the u. S. Economy. Joining us now is drew matus, metlife and that achievement metlife management chief market manager. Are we expecting to see anything different from the c
Points s p turned negative. Down by lows to 3 points the nasdaq down by 72 points this morning a mixed bag again dow futures indicated up by 43 points s p down by 3 points the nasdaq down by 27. Overnight in asia, the nikkei ended down by 0. 3 the hang seng down by 1 shanghai down by 0. 20 in european trading, ret arroir across the board, though the ftse is at the flat line lets check out currencies yesterday cruel oil prices were down 1. 5 . This morning the dollar is up against the euro at 1. 1862 dollar yen at 112. 45 Republican Leaders in the house and senate are racing to merge the tax plans and send the bill to President Trump before the end of the year. A Conference Committee plans to reconcile the two pieces of legislation starting this week among the differences the house has four individual rates, the senate seven the house cuts the corporate rate to 20 right away the senate waits until 2019. The senate repeals the individual mandate while the house doesnt. Another point of p
Teleconference releasing results of the Fourth Quarter ceo outlook survey. Finally today, the International Olympic committee will meet in switzerland to decide on russias per dissipation in the 2018 games and south korea. Their decision is expected at 1 30 p. M. Alix that will be interesting. David there is a drug thing going on. Alix i would like to be a fly on that wall. Top stories this morning with first take, Deutsche Bank, tax reform and brexit. Joining us is the editor in chief of Bloomberg News and our chief content officer. Marty, what is Robert Mueller trying to ascertain with a subpoena . We do not at the question of the relationship between Donald Trumps businesses and Deutsche Bank has been subject of inquiry ever since he became a president ial candidate. Totsche bank has refused comment on the relationship, but now he has turned over documents to Robert Mueller and the thought is it is the relationship between donald trump and russia and whether those loans had any conn