Lets get you up to speed on these markets. European stocks. The dollar has dipped. It has transferred to a mild complexion of a dying day this thursday morning in europe. European equity markets are the lead protagonists. Pessimist guide on bloomberg for 2018 is about technology, facebook and disinformation. You can still make money as bitcoin drops. The bloomberg dollar index down. The bloomberg dollar index is looking at a fairly tortured year. Do you buy that story that it is all about adjustments . Im not so sure. Yields drop. Were down to a threeweek low. You are looking at the bloomberg dollar index. The worst year since we started collecting data in 2004. Copper is rising to a fairly big level. Fouryear high. China has halted production. We know that. Youre looking at the eighth straight quarter of gains. You could see copper trade up to 10,000. U. B. S. A little more sedate. The swriss known for their sedate approach. It has outperformed pretty much every other commodity this y
Manus europe rallied. You are welcome. It is surveillance and i am manus cranny. Rallied. Ment, europe where up on the stoxx 600. It was text and telecoms that to the heavy lifting, nothing compared to your performance in asia. Record highs in asia. You are looking at levels that you havent seen since the 1990s in japan. Technology up 50 in asia. Europe, you are seeing this growth story. It is absolutely intact. The next question are you, European Equity markets, can you sustain the growth gains that we have had the euro at around 120 . Could the euro valuation unseat the story we see here . Week,llar index, what a what a year. This is the first yearly loss since 2012 for the dollar. You are seeing another push low. You get a 3 growth rate, you get a tax reform deal, you get three hikes from the Federal Reserve and still the dollar is lower. 2 lower from here at end of 2018. The most bearish view is the dollar will be down by another 5. 5 , not everybody is so pessimistic. On the upsid
Wage growth at. 3 that is just not good enough. Shery its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Shery hello and welcome. Im shery ahn. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News, analysis, and interviews around the world. On tuesday, Eurasia Group released its top 10 global risks for 2018. In a bloomberg surveillance special, a distinguished panel of guests discussed it in detail. Tom keene began the conversation by asking why the prevailing talent is so gloomy. Because when the Global Economy feels the way geopolitics do today, people respond. They see it is a crisis. They know they need to do something. Theyve got to bail things out, do infrastructure projects, get the banks ready. We had that back in 2008, and everyone knew we talked about this we all knew it was a crisis and we had to respond. Geopolitics are easily as bad today as the economics were in 2008. They might be worse, and yet, there is no crisis, no sense of we have to respond. In fac
Attempting a direct listing, and is there really investor demand . Intel discloses this week that most of the processes running the World Computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them vulnerable to attacks. As the largest chipmaker in the world, the impact is farreaching. Fixes are coming over the next few weeks and it sees no Material Impact to its business. Google, which discovered the flaw, says the issue affects other Semi Conductor firms. Microsoft, apple, and google say they secured their systems. Google researchers found out that this might be a problem going back to the middle of last year. The idea was we get together, find a fix for this, then we put that fix in place, then we go and say, look, this is what happened. We sorted it out. Dont worry. Unfortunately, news intervened. People found out. They are now in scramble mode. Intel was forced to come out and we dont have all of the fixes in place, we dont know the impact it will have on computers. There is a lot of
Plus conversations with heavy , hitters in health care and technology. We need more room for experimentation. We need to make sure we have a strong lineup in our Motion Picture releases. Abigail it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Abigail hello and welcome. I am abigail doolittle. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important Business News analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. The week began with a strategic signal from theresa may, who promised to inject new blood into her cabinet at the start of a critical year for her government. The reboot went underway monday. New year, new cabinet. After losing three ministers last year, Prime Minister theresa may beginning 2018 with a cabinet reshuffle. It seems to be about bringing in new blood, more dynamic, more him youthful slate of mps. This is all part of theresa may trying to grab turf in the party, saying we can do diversity, reach out to the youth, recapture some of those votes. T