Good afternoon if youre watching from asia. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. We are looking to what is to come. We do not have cash treasuries, of course in the u. K. , we call it remembrance. If you look at stocks, cyclical industries, at the expense of technology shares. Crude oil is rising, textures are under preparing, including a dutch provider. You see some of the futures edging higher along with the contracts from the s p 500. We will have tons more of course on the market. Coming up, we speak with the former u. K. Prime minister tony blair, talking about the future of the relations, the countrys asdling of the pandemic, well. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Joe biden is warning not to put peace with u. K. And northern brexit. In jeopardy with. It is the latest sign that biden will not be the unequivocal supporter of brexit that joe biden has been.
Eu Commission President calls for an end to the use of arms in the middle east as she arrives in london to discuss iran with british Prime Minister the use of weapons must stop now to give space to dialogue. We all are called upon to do Everything Possible to rekindle talks. There cannot be enough of that a fatal Ukraine International airline crash. Authorities invest gate the cause and the initial report suggests engine failure. Flush. Welcome to the program iran has launched more than a dozen miceles in iraq in retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani the u. S. Says iran is enemy calling last nights attack on the troops a slap in the face. He has insisted the u. S. Military forces should leave the region ashe called their presence, quote, a source of corruption he insisted if iran were to resume talks, it would pave the way for u. S. Dominance but all is well according to a twitter message from President Trump after the a attacks. The u. S. Department of defense says the strik
Wall street. Thats clear. The dow clod at a fresh record today. The s p eeked out an alltime p high,ting it on track for the best year in two dades. Today the d gained another 23 points. Now at 28645. The nasdaq slipped a bit its peak but still above 9,000. And the s p rose byce 11 s. And it nachd its fifth straight week of gainsow much of the focus this ek has been on the Technology Sector with the nasdaq breaking through 9,000fare the first tim yesterday. We told you which stocks helped power to that level. Tonight dominic chu looks at the stocks that could take it high sfleer stocks like microsof facebook, apple and n individually have pushed the ds nasdaq to outperform over the major indices. If the bullish trends in markets continuing into 202 which nasdaq stocks are expected to do the heavy lifting . Since the nasdaq is a market valt weightedde the Biggest Companies have most influence over performance. Among t biggest names with market values of at least 100 billion, a handful a
Markets trying to figure out the fallout from the u. S. Strike meansilled the general for their portfolios. And what it means for the price of brent. Is at theere bryant moment. Gold at the highest in six years. Data. Also getting some Euro Area Services pmi coming into 52. 8 just a touch better than expected. We are at the eurasia summit talking 2020 risk. We will talk to the italian Prime Minister. In the International Rescue committee chief executive David Miliband. Those are coming up on bloomberg surveillance. Lets get to the first word news in new york city. We begin with Australian Authorities counting the cross of newowns on the south south wales in neighboring victoria. Blazes are the generated drive thunderstorms, thousands have been evacuated to Recreation Grounds, converted into makeshift camps. A new top man from china and hong kong, a communist party of thel who is now part anticorruption campaign. After nearly seven months of political unrest. Shows beijings intention to
The future that we want to build, but at the moment weve got this roadblock, this logjam, and we need to get through it. And as the early election bill receives royal assent well have the latest as the campaign gets the other main stories on bbc news at 5. The us house of representatives passes a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry, against President Trump. The body of missing british backpacker, amelia bambridge, is found in cambodia. More than 70 passengers are killed, as their train catches fire in pakistan. Order order. Very rude for members. Order and coming up well take a look atjohn bercows most memorable moments as he stands down as house of commons speaker. Its five oclock our top story. On the day the Prime Minister promised we would leave the eu, the battle lines for the december election are being drawn. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn launched his pa rtys campaign in south london, condemning what he called tax dodgers, dodgy landlords, bad bosses and