Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am anna edwards in the city of london. Lets start with a check on the markets. This is how we are doing on the stoxx 600. We did either side of the flat line trading and we are losing around. 1 . A little of performance coming through in the london market as you might expect when you have Oil Prices Going higher by 2. 2 because of the tensions between the u. K. And around in the strait of hormuz. That is the focus for oil traders and they are pushing out some of the oil related businesses listed in london. S p futures point higher. We are a little range bound on these Global Equity markets looking for guidance, looking for the continuation of the equity story. That will come later on this week. Earnings reports from the baking sector. Going to be a lot to talk about. We will be looking for the ecb and the Interest Rate decisions have to make. A little bit later on, mervyn king is going to be joining the bloomberg team. Dont miss that conversation. A
Losing month for 2019, first may decline for 2012 this morning you see modest green arrows s p futures up by 2 points and the nasdaq up by about 9 points. Overnight in asia markets slightly stronger. President trump coming back from japan. You see the nikkei closed up by a third of a percentage point. Similar gains for the hang seng and the shanghai deposit up about 0. 6 in europe its a mixed picture. The ftse up by about a tenth of a percent. Stocks are weaker in it will i and in spain as well if you talk a look at whats been happening in the treasury market in the United States, youll see the tenyear is yeeling, wow, 2. 89 , so below 3 . This morning alibaba deba debating whether to offer new public shares in a second offering, this time to hong kong reported will i they could raise up to 20 billion. Theyre currently working with financial vuzers to offer the listing as early as this year. The Company Initially listed in new york in 2014 raising a record 25 billion shares of alibaba
Happening now in the newsroom, a heartbreaking loss for u. S. Womens soccer. Off the post sweden can win on this kick. Plus one on one with Donald Trumps lawyer who claims trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election were aspirational, not criminal. And lost at sea for two days in a boat only 12 feet long. Well show you the incredible rescue. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday, im fredricka whitfield. Donald trumps lawyer doubling down that trump was within his First Amendment rights when he told former Vice President mike pence not to certify the election results. The Attorney Says it all boils down to the way he asked. And all of this played out in the open. Its all free speech. There was a Supreme Court decision that says when youre exercising free speech, youre not engaging in a fraud on the government. Unfortunately most people dont understand thats just one example of the actions. Its very political. Thats just one
Even more on the way. In texas, new wildfire dangers fueling more evacuations overnight. And all of it as the northeast enjoys springlike temperatures. But a major cooldown on the way. Were tracking it all. Breaking overnight. Nikki haley wins her first republican primary. America is better than what we see right now. Ahead of tomorrows allimportant super tuesday contest with 15 states up for grabs and trump heavily favored. Will it be haleys last stand . Direct message. There must be an immediate ceasefire. Vice president Kamala Harris escalates the biden administrations push for a truce in the middle east as the first u. S. Air drop of emergency aid arrives in the region. A live report ahead. New push. An American Company asking to renew the search for Malaysia Flight 370 ten years after its shocking disappearance. New plans into solving one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. Those stories, plus crowd control. The popular hot spot now breaking up with spring break. The c
To know about what came before that in the courtroom today. Where donald trump was called the orange turd repeatedly by Stormy Daniels and by his own lawyer. Thats right. That is how Donald Trumps day went today. The woman he has paid more money to than any woman he hasnt married, criminal Defense Attorney Susan Necklace repeatedly called her client donald trump the orange turd. On what she thought was an effective crossexamination of Stormy Daniels. So imagine donald trump sitting in that courtroom today slumped in his chair, leaving hissies closed for long stretches being forced to listen with eyes closed or eyes open to one of his Criminal Defense Lawyers on whom he has lavished money. Listen to her repeatedly call him the orange turd. And donald trump is of course the most Vain Human Being who has ever entered that courthouse. But his colossal vanity combined with his more colossal stupidity leaves us unable to tell what he was experiencing. A normal person couldnt be more humiliat