Testimony of facebook, twitter, and google execs before congress russias use of social media in the election. Watch washington journal, live 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. During the discussion. U. S. Ambassador to canada, kelly knight and canadian ambassador to the u. S. Talked about u. S. Canada relations. This is about 25 minutes. Does fall to me to be the guy that interrupts your dinner. We know this is the canadianamerican business council, that is excellent. I like to intrude on your sunday mornings but tonight i will intrude on your dinner but its worth it because i have an extraordinary moment. Tonight for the first time to people at the center of the most important issue for economy, the trade between canada and United States, some might say the weight of the world is on the shoulder. Security issues weve talked about resilience of our friends in new york. Please give a warm welcome, we could be very warm the capital of canada to the u. S. Ambassador of canada, kelly
Anna a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Were here in the city of london. Manus well get straight into breaking news. Anna merck numbers coming through, First Quarter numbers from the German Health care business, matching estimates. Billion, 3. 83. 8 6 had been estimated. , interestingbitda to see what they say about the outlook. This is been a year that has been pivotal for merck. The Health Care Unit has made steps forward with its first new drug in more than a decade. It was clear tos sale in the u. S. Or quickly than expected. Thats where the focus will be. May put itssaid it three divisions into subsidiaries. We will keep and ill these numbers coming through and will be speaking to the management of this company a little bit later on coming up today in programming on bloomberg. They see fullyear net sales of 50. 5 going to 16 billion. Their are sticking to gut. Lets look at the list that we run here in bloomberg. The risk off sentiment grip the market yesterday. Wall stre
Interest rates to 7 . Thats at that 25 basis point increase. There was one member of the policy making committee who voted to leave the rate unchanged. So not a unanimous decision but nevertheless mexico lifting its Interest Rate, benchmark Interest Rate for a seventh straight time to kesh some of that rising inflation. And also to anchor inflation expectationings. We do know that additional rate increases had been expected from economists as well. Julia and in a ties to what were seeing in the markets. The mexico peso stronger by. 8 going into this decision. Actually it is slightly softer as a result of that. But im talking marginal. Right now dollar in mexico down by some. 7 as scarlet said. This decision was expected. The question of course is whether or not they decide to hike once more this year. Because thats what the market is anticipating that they see rates go to 7. 25 terminal rate by the end of this year. Scarlet so were definitely near the end of this tightening cycle. But
Interest rates to 7 . Thats at that 25 basis point increase. There was one member of the policy making committee who voted to leave the rate unchanged. So not a unanimous decision but nevertheless mexico lifting its Interest Rate, benchmark Interest Rate for a seventh straight time to kesh some of that rising inflation. And also to anchor inflation expectationings. We do know that additional rate increases had been expected from economists as well. Julia and in a ties to what were seeing in the markets. The mexico peso stronger by. 8 going into this decision. Actually it is slightly softer as a result of that. But im talking marginal. Right now dollar in mexico down by some. 7 as scarlet said. This decision was expected. The question of course is whether or not they decide to hike once more this year. Because thats what the market is anticipating that they see rates go to 7. 25 terminal rate by the end of this year. Scarlet so were definitely near the end of this tightening cycle. But
Interest rates to 7 . Thats at that 25 basis point increase. There was one member of the policy making committee who voted to leave the rate unchanged. So not a unanimous decision but nevertheless mexico lifting its Interest Rate, benchmark Interest Rate for a seventh straight time to kesh some of that rising inflation. And also to anchor inflation expectationings. We do know that additional rate increases had been expected from economists as well. Julia and in a ties to what were seeing in the markets. The mexico peso stronger by. 8 going into this decision. Actually it is slightly softer as a result of that. But im talking marginal. Right now dollar in mexico down by some. 7 as scarlet said. This decision was expected. The question of course is whether or not they decide to hike once more this year. Because thats what the market is anticipating that they see rates go to 7. 25 terminal rate by the end of this year. Scarlet so were definitely near the end of this tightening cycle. But