Conversations in europe to some level of success. Of course, the stimulus discussion in washington, all of this wrapped around a market that will never, ever go down. Futures up 25, dow futures up 186. We have a 23 print on the vix now. Just to go to the equity market for one second, come on, jon. 32 to 23 on the vix is really something. Jonathan it is an equity market that has got away from so many, particularly on the tech side. Amazon up 70 . Microsoft, apple up 30 . We have had monster moves. Tom your thoughts on europe, you spent eight tour of duty in you spent a tour of duty in fractured, germany in frankfurt, germany. Jonathan europe is demonstrating that they can borrow at the Commission Level and distribute to places like italy. That was unthinkable in the depths of the crisis. I dont think it is that goal bullet, the. This is part of the journey. Thats how you should view it. It will take a while for the story to build. The keyword is crisis. It took a crisis to take this ste
Im mark barton in london. Check out whats happening to your european stocks. Near the highest level since december 2015. The stoxx 600 lower today after seeing the highest levels yesterday. In over 13 months. Big day in japan today. The yen weakening. The b. O. J. Boosting purchases of medium maturity bonds underscoring its commitment to maintaining its yield curve target. Sterile down against the dollar ahead of the big maytrump showdown. Well call it a meeting. Gold is lower today. Falling for a fourth day. That is the worst run since november heading for its first weekly drop. Investors favoring riskier assets, still gold up 5 in 2017. Lets get to the news. U. B. S. Profit more than tripled in the Fourth Quarter. Profit 848 million franks exceeding analyst stims. Shares are falling at the moment. The c. E. O. Ermotti said investors are confident but waiting for reaction from the Trump Administration. The most important thing for me is to see the clients are ptimistic. It is very imp
Is the hurricane. Taylor riggs will get to that in a moment but also we have got the basic idea of sorry, i lost my train of thought. Francine we are getting breaking news on the Nobel Peace Prize. It is the first time i remember they have not awarded it to one person, but to the Colombian Peace accord. The peacet because accord was in jeopardy when i had a referendum and it was rejected. We did catch up with the finance minister of columbia, unclear exactly what will come from here. We are getting that live announcement from the nobel peas committee in oslo. The winner is the Colombian Peace accord. That is after the referendum on sunday. Tom it really changes things and the interesting thing is the duration of a peace accord. It is supposed to be a year or two and this has been a generational struggle. Francine i correct myself, because the prize was awarded to colombias president , mr. Santos. It is not to the peace accord itself, it is to the president. The reason colombians reject