Second on what would have been her 98th birthday. In the company of my mark meets guest, the queens favourite royal photographer, ian lloyd. Looking photographer, ian lloyd. Looking forward to this. Following his lure and confessions of drug use, the duke of sussex is praying that joe biden will be re elected in november because if donald trump returns to the white house, prince harry could be deported to britain. Thats be deported to britain. Thats right, folks, this is not a drill. Prince harry could be deported to britain in the next year or two. Well cover that at ten. So two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. Lots to get through. Dont miss a second of the action. First, the news headunes the action. First, the News Headlines and sophia wenzler. Thanks, mark. Good evening. Im sofia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. Newsroom. Your top story this hour. Mark newsroom. Your top story this hour. Mark menzies has announced his resignation from the
Sure it helped but we were roaring long before that, thanks in large part to efforts of two brilliant chief executive officers stocks were high dow and nasdaq and much comes to the performance of two stocks, cisco and walmart. Which pleasantly surprised us with their numbers these are both turnaround stories people nothing proves worth of a ceo like executing a turnaround. Doug mcmillon, took over three careers ago and led remarkable revolution at retail giant where 100 Million People shop each week, monster company. First thing he did, drop a bomb. Told us would spend as much as possible to take on amazon, seemed fanciful at the time but said do with service and better paid work force. Understood the weakness was keeping good people. Training new people is dead weight raised price they paid people. At the time viewed as heresy now seen as brilliant. Walmart still run with input of the walton family. They want to win phenomenal 50 online growth this company runs like walmart of old, th
In saudi arabia, the the msci index. Bloomberg markets medela spirit we have an asian equity session firming up. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. We have an asian equity session firming up. The new year holiday and preparing for president s day in the United States. Singapore up 1 . The uighur yen is feeding into that trade. Purchasesee equities by individual investors. Exchange market, the aussie dollar up. 3 . I want to tell you what is happening in the sovereign bonds and commodities space. Summary pricing in the bond space. But in commodities, you wti and brent crude up. 3 . We did have the u. S. Rigs data from the United States, but its the confidence on the demand story that is driving with the weaker dollar. Chatter,is the tariff possible escalation from the United States. I want to show you what is happening in some of the other key indexes. Inflation and the minutes will be in focus. Old, gains dollaryoud still up. Are quitetures, calls a bit higher. Lets check in on the
A warm welcome to daybreak. It is 7 00 in europe. If you are in the United States, happy president s day. Balance herece with the cash markets closed and you have the equity futures trading lighter than normal with the best run in equities within pushing awayd against volatility and rising yields. Survey with the market drop to reenter and it is all about the United States this week and the fed minutes and what you get on wednesday. Andill begin to understand builds to the testimony with the actual power of powell. We have some numbers coming across your bloomberg terminal. We have breaking news on a dividend coming back and platinum declares a dividend. It is an interesting time in the market with donald trump raising and theter of tariffs dollar has trade tensions and the possibility of tariffs in the United States and the dollar manages to eat out this. I mentioned to you that the paperates are opening and will come over the next few days. Who keeps purchasing it . The chinese canno
We are without the United States. President s day in the u. S. That means a lot of participants stateside but we also see reduced trading over the Asian Session as well. We saw the asian equities session with the nikkei moving higher, 1. 8 . A little higher a little harder to make any headway. More will get to more that. Our focus on what we are doing in europe because without the United States and the chinese and hong kong markets are closed. Thats get the first word news update. President trump spent the weekend criticizing everyone but russia for meddling. He tweeted 14 times over 24 hours criticizing the fbi, democrats and special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. They came after his sweeping indictment of 13 russians for allegedly leading social media efforts to attack trump rival, hillary clinton. In florida, students at the high school where 17 people were shot and killed are speaking out or gun control. They plan to organize antigun violence marches for next month. In the