The world for the victims of the attack call for change. I have come here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the americas president obama addresses the cuban people and promises a new beginning, and president ial primaries the campaign for the white house heads west, with voters going to the polls in arizona, utah and idaho good evening, im antonio mora, this is al jazeera Americas International news hour. We begin in brussels, where a series of explosions claim 34 lives. Police believe two suicide bombers targeted a terminal at an airport this morning. A third survived. And is now the subject of an intense manhunt across belgium. The subway was attacked. As many as 20 died when a bomb went off in the center of the city in the maelbeck station. Relatives soon began to gather mourning the dead. Isil posted a statement online in which it claimed responsibility for the carnage. The group promised to attack other countries belonging to the u. S. Led isil coalition. For more here i
Donald trump calling for an investigation into chinas import taxes just moments ago on cnbc. Also, Bernie Sanders saying hes proud Goldman Sachs thinks hes dangerous for wall street. And what jack dorsey says about investors lack of confidence in squares stock right now and why hes not worried about the short sellers. But well start with the markets. We mentioned draghi expanding their qe program to 80 billion euros a month, consulting the refi rate, cutting the marginal lending rate, the deposit rate, adding, jim that risks to growth remain on the down side and trimming their gdp forecast. What can i say, hes got the Bank Stocks Going i mean, if they wanted to, they could issue equity. We all know that worked here. The liquidity hes throwing at this is amazing. This guy, sum total, dollar going higher. So, i know everyones very excited. I know our futures are up big. When will people realize that these are not necessarily positive for us . Now, i had a ceo on last night, europe was ve
U. S. Equity strategy at jpmorgan to talk about where the market goes. The coolest on wall street. Reminds me of dubrovnik. Melissa ran through the two month charts which look very impressive. You look at the dow over the last year and the s p over the last year, it feels like we have careened higher and now were back to this level that we keep fighting up against, whether it is the 21,000 leave, the 18,000 level or 2100 level. Where do we go to from here . So market had impressive rallies since february lows. Up 13 , 14 . I would say probably most of this has been driven by short covering. Technicals i think for most part at this point have run their course. Investor positioning adjusted, equity multiple is pretty much at the highs around 72. 5, so i think in order to turn more constructive from these levels on, you need some form of fundamental catalyst and some form of earnings and reacceleration. To me that pretty much means we need more dollar weakness. If we dont get that, i just
Putting Jeremy Corban in as their leader. Looking forft and radical economic changes there. The dax in germany is 15 points lower now, just under. 2 . Everybody watching the dollar. The dollar index is lower this morning by just. 1 . The u. S. Trade weighted dollar is something we need to teac kep an eye on. The fiveyear going for 1. 5 percent once you rounded off. The twoyear is at 71 basis points. Topping the list of things were watching today, volatility. The vix fell. Volatility lower this morning despite the fed ahead. Congress is back trying to find a way not to shut down the government in two weeks. Last shutdown hit the economy hard. China, more weak economic data. Credit is growing there. Tom sees may be tiny green shoot out there . Tom yes. A little bit of a green shoot. What an ugly win for the Denver Broncos. That was terrible. We enjoyed the mets, and still managed to pull things out. Wonderful worda for our sponsors and then i will pull up a chart. Bloomberg surveillance
During a referendum meant to bring stability bad habits have to be broken, those are the words of the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry as his country and other world powers were in rome to push factions to form a unity government. They are expected to meet in morocco on wednesday. The country had two parliament when armed fighters overran the capital, forcing the internationally recognised government to take refuge in the east. Diplomacy reflects fears, that instability in libya will allow i. S. I. L. Led groups to expand around the si of cert. Zeina khodr reports from rome. Rome is where a united voice was expressed to bring about a government of National Accord in libya, it was in rome where some of libyas rival factions showed support for the International Communitys plan. They are expected to sign the deal an wednesday, but there is opposition to the plan. Theres some inside and outside of libya. For their own selfish purposes, who are uninterested in reconciliation, unwilling t