Been interesting. Not just value but also small caps. Also industrials, also cyclicals. They wound up beating estimates, coming in at over 600,000. The earnings went up slightly as well. If you have a miss, you get punished. For global exchange. We will bring you todays market news from around the world, from hong kong to brussels to london. First, we start off in asia where china is firing back at the u. S. Mike pences criticism of his actions against protesters in hong kong. He said chinas actions in hong kong curtail liberty rights. The Foreign Ministry blasted the remotes remarks and said we hope they can get their own house in order. I was quite surprised by their response today. Their response yesterday was much more consolatory consolatory from chinese news outlets. They accused Vice President pence of line. They accused him of arrogance. Y said his speech was and the like. As you mentioned, they said the u. S. Has to look itself in the mirror. To your point about consolatory to
Declines. Thats the first backtoback losses youve seen for the dow and s p 500 since late january. Futured are muted this morning. Dow up by 2 points. Nasdaq up by less than a point. A lot of things happening, were waiting on adp numbers this morning. That may give us insight on what to expect friday from the jobs market. That can het let us figure out the Federal Reserve will do. In asia, the nikkei down by a half percent. The hang seng up, and in europe, a similar story to what were seeing here. Muted moves one direction ortd othe or the other. The dax up by . And a look at currencies. The dollar is up across the board. Euro at 1. 056. Dollar yen at 114. 05. Here are the storying were watching. China posting a trade deficit of 60 yuan. Exports dominated in yuan, they rose 4. 2 in february, imports jumped more than 44 . That import growth driven by a construction boom. Analysts say the data may have been distorted eby the long lunr new year sell breaks. During the sell breaks,celebrat
We hear from both ceos. Man group exclusive. We speak to the man taking charge of the worlds biggest publicly traded hedge fund. Dont miss the conversation with incoming ceo luke ellis. Caroline less than half an hour to go until the market open and great sense of earnings interviews. Futures currently a little bit lackluster, but we are trading higher. We are seeking overall were seeing overall an increase on the board. Apologies, i just got to scroll through to get you to the right screen. Were having if you technical glitches. Having a look at some of the asset, it is all about the bank of japan, the affect on the yen. Were seeing the yen. Dollar falling, yen trading higher. 1. 2 , but i want to focus on commodities as well. Worst month in a year for wti crude. Were seeing inventories pick up. Lets have a look at the key news. David ingles. David thanks, caroline. Hillary clinton says america is at a moment of reckoning and has belittled Donald Trumps claims that he alone can solve
Hello and welcome to countdown. Manus also coming up barclays reports whether the ceo will cut costs. How will the Investment Bank performed . What will the return on equity be . And vw releases its earnings this week. The family feud at the top ending with the departure of the chairman. We break the numbers and introduce you to new driverless cars. Mark twitter shares plummeted last night. Caroline, you have more. Caroline twitter tanked. It was trending for all the wrong reason. Reasons. Down 18 . We saw that eradicate 6 billion of its market capitalization. That was at the end of trading 3 00 p. M. U. S. Time. The reasoning is that the numbers got leaked early and they were not in line with estimates. 6 billion wiped off. They still grew some 74 but if we dig into the numbers, you can see that firstQuarter Sales did miss the estimation. Meanwhile, secondquarter forecast they too missed out on estimates. They are expected now to rise 55 were analysts wanted to see 72 . They say they
Europe very good evening to our viewers in asia and good morning to those just waking up in the United States. Im guy johnson. And im francine lacqua. Coming up, how do you revitalize a centuryold brand . Francine has gone inside fendi. We have another exclusive interview for viewers in europe. The American Ambassador to the u. K. Joins us to talk about the crisis in the ukraine. Russia says it is are paring retaliatory sanctions against the west after the eu and United States rod and their list of targets. We have all the angles covered on this story. Jonathan ferro is on the market reaction. Ryan, lets kick it off with you. Russian lawmakers are in the final stages of pushing ahead with annexing crimea. That is exactly right. Ive been looking at some of the sanctions which target individuals. Going through some of the personalities affected by the e eu and u. S. List. Starting with the billionaire brothers are tidy arkady. His companies alone were worth about sixere rewarded billion