Become in one week, the target of a leftwing, lameduck president and a highly political and highly popular pope. A person who thinks only about building walls wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not christian. The pope said something to the effect that maybe donald trump isnt christian, okay . And hes questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But i am a christian and proud of it. Lou its safe to say that donald trump is a oneman rhetorical hurricane, and there is no question he will draw further strength and draw political advantage from this latest attack from on high in the Catholic Church. No sign of weakness in the brand new fox news poll out tonight. This poll shows trump dominating the race for the republican president ial nomination, 36 support nationally. Nearly double the 19 backing senator ted cruz. Well have political analysis tonight by the National Reviews rich lowry, daily beast Betsy Woodruff and van hip, and the commander in chief is roundly cr
We are checking markets in the asiapacific. Stocks gaining a 10th of 1 . New Zealand Dollar continues to strengthen on the weaker u. S. Dollar. Counting down to openings. Futures and sydney pointing to a lower open, but flat on the session. , but wee how it goes did see a selloff in australia on friday. Onck out that aussie dollar the back of u. S. Dollar weakness. When we talk about strength, lets take a look at japan. This is the level right now. At the 18 month high, and worrying exporters and the boj. Futures in chicago pointing to a higher open as oil climbs as well. Yen, searching last week to the highest level since 2014. This is a rally that has confounded most currency strategist. Were taking a look into this. Theres one to you that says we should be looking at the yen through the prism of the bond market. , traders,estors everyone scrambling to explain this meteor ascent for the japanese currency. Through at make sense lot of metrics. Theres no indications that abenomics is t
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost joined today by seema mody. Good morning, seema, sitting in for sara eisen. Lets go to action, u. S. Futures have taken a positive turn in the last hour or so, following european markets making a similar turn. Higher by about 50 points to the dow. 53 to be precise. S p by 6. 4. Nasdaq by 20 points. It follows a 1. 25 decline last week for u. S. Equity indices. Lets look at the u. S. Tenyear, were seeing buying over the last week or so that did actually take the yield below 1. 7 briefly on thursday. Were just above that level right now. But as you can see, the move in general over last week has been one of yield compression. 1. 718 on the tenyear note this morning. Breaking overnight, bank of japan governor kuroda says the boj is closely watching how unstable Global Market moves could affect his countrys economy and prices. Speaking at an animal meeting of trust banks today, kuroda said, quote, the boj wont hesitate to take additional easing steps need
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