His cabinet. Caroline. Us bring in about psa. T ask you what do we expect to hear from the board . How quickly will the acquisition happen . Groupne we have the psa Board Meeting this afternoon. Signing and mo you by the end of the day. Sources, to bloomberg one big obstacle has already been removed. A stake owner is backing the mou and this is key. Remember in june, the state backer was responsible for making the merger between fiat and. The future governance of the new entity and the synergies between them and the psa group. To remainthe chairman chairman of the new entity. Expect also the psa group to have six seats on the board. We expect the entity to be based in the netherlands. It will have offices in new york, paris, and milan. To access the u. S. Market with chrysler and jeep. However, two legal obstacles remaining. One with italian authorities and the other with chrysler being accused by General Motors of bribery. The company has denied wrongdoing. Anna thank you very much. M
Journal there close to raising rates next month. Chinas push to join the elite as a currency takes a hit. More work is needed on the yuan. Welcome to countdown. This is Bloomberg Live from london. 6 00 a. M. Numbers are coming through from moments ago. Lets get to carolyn conan. She is in paris. Yes. It is the highest quarterly earning in eight years since the financial crisis. Societe generale benefited from three things. They had a good performance and equity ending. It jumped 61 . They also had a gain of 312 Million Euros. Recovery of the economy in europe, especially in france. They had 45 Million Euros in russia. This is smaller than it was in the First Quarter you also told me in the Second Quarter. We spoke exclusively on second order earning. We have a strong set of results. Good performances across the board. Also good monitoring of costs. A really strong performance. And very happy. Couldnt talk generally about the economy, france and europe. Would you say the economy is stil
The monday session could stocks are rising after falling. These currencies are falling against the dollar with yields rising in greece and portugal, and switzerland. Manufacturing expanded the strongest pace in over six years. Factories across the region taking on more workers to deal with surging orders. Growth rates improving in most of countries including france and italy. Signaling expansion since the last time in 2015. Signaling that the recovery in the eurozone a strengthening after years of subdued activity and muted inflation. Bring on the next ecb meeting. German 10 years inching higher, up 48 basis points, levels we have not seen since march yieldsng the big in from those hawkish comments from draghi. All the volatility, that included what is being called a for sigma move four do sigma being called a four sigma move. Some traders are getting excited about bonds. Star beforeft their inflation between the 2 target. Mark says went 10 year yields did break higher, the moves were
Clues for President Trumps fiscal policy and tax cuts. We are 30 minutes into the trading day. Abigail doolittle has what is going on beneath the surface. The dow s p 500 and the nasdaq trading down ever so slightly around the open. This does follow weekly declines for the major averages. Two weeks of decline. On pace for a third week down. Worth noting that was the most since the middle of october. A little bit of bearishness. Arequestion is whether we going to see a burst of intraday volatility. Be seeing these bursts of volatility, but when we take a look at the we are looking at a very tight range of the s p 500. It has been 30 days since the s p 500 has made a 1 move up or more. And it has been a record since 2006, a record of 70 days. We are seeing more volatility on the day, but on a closing basis not so much. It will be interesting to see if it does catch up. Aroundthe movers here the open, we are looking at qualcomm. Its worst drop since november 2015 since apple put out a law
Programs with coxe cuts. Slashing costson be enough to keep investors on board . Matt less than one half or now or wait till the open. European stocks futures pointing down after a down finish yesterday for both the u. S. And europe. The narrative here is that investors are concerned about political uncertainty, political terminal. As a result, fleeing for the safety of safe even assets. Are you seeing that on your gmm screen . Is lets see what happening. Mario draghi saying the euro is irreversible. Certain people in france may disagree with that. The markets on the equity front got smacked around yesterday. Italy down 2. 21 percent. The euro is weak for this morning, down by 6 10 of 1 . Trading at 106. 84. On the markets getting into gear now. Bond markets getting into gear. France tighten their tightened. Italy and greece both whiter. Wider. The focus on the periphery. It blair yesterday. That story looks like it may have traction. Thatep talking about throughout the program. Lets g