Fed, if you will. Have got to because the Federal Reserve. This is Janet Yellens last policy decision. A wideranging set of views including those on bitcoin. A speculative situation. When it comes to Monetary Policy, three hikes expected for next year. It seems to Economic Growth, but inflation, the mark. Question we are about 30 minutes out from the open in china and in hong kong. David, a bit of a mixed picture when it comes to the equity side. We are seeing the dollar maintaining those losses. David we welcome to a substantially weaker u. S. Dollar. That actually showed up. Im going to tie it together with the aussie number you mentioned at the top of the show. Have a look at the move down in the 10 year yield in australia. Here is the pop we got 30 minutes back because of the swell and jobs data that came out. The haidis point, we are looking at a mixed picture. Currencies are counter productive. Corelation is quite clear. Back to the jobs number in australia and just to show you h
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Festival of Central Banks, we have the ecb to come, the bank of england, the fed here. Down 1 5 of 1 . Uro, little change unchanged since the last ecb season, october 26. Hasnt fallen to one dollar 1587 on November November 7. Sterling up by 1 10 of 1 today. Today, but its politics thats affecting sterling today, having risen since fps last night. Theyre changing their governments planned legislation, so they guarantee they will get a meaningful vote on the final deal to leave the eu in negotiations for 2019. Coming up today on bloomberg surveillance, we will discuss markets with paul donovan, hear from the s p governor thomas jordan. But get to bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek sebastian the fed has raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected. We also have a growth forecast next year, but maintaining projection of hikes 3 hikes in 2018. Saiding chair janet yellen this underlines tha
And in company news, the situation is getting dire for a retailer, seeing credit withdrawn as an accounting scandal threatens to doom the business. That is all ahead. Julie hyman is here. It sounds like the rally is taking a pause. Julie it definitely looks like a pause. Ulie we have seen stocks bounced between gains and losses since the open of trading, and see all three major averages into the red. We have some of the interestrate sensitive sectors like utilities and Real Estate Investment trusts lower along with technology, which you can see by the decline we are seeing. We have some analyst calls from largecap stocks, apple among them. Apple getting a rare downgrade from nomura. The analyst says positives are already priced into the stock, lowering the rating to neutral. Le shares up just 0. 8 apple shares off just zero point percent. Walmart, an analyst getting ready, saying ecommerce can be a competitor to amazon. Finally, General Motors are the third in our trio of largecap stoc
We are looking at industrial metals, the first down day in nine sessions. The emerging markets index climbed for the highest and about three weeks. Euro strengthening against the u. S. Dollar despite the likely passage of the tax reform plan. Gold gaining. 1 . David lets find out whats going on outside the Business World and for that we turn to emma chandra. Emma today, Congress Begins the final step toward the biggest inrite of u. S. Tax laws three decades. House republicans are expected to easily pass the tax bill and the senate is likely to follow later today or tomorrow. The measure permanently slashes the top rate of tax for business to 20 1 . O 31 35 in washington state, federal investigators say an amtrak train was speeding before a fatal the realm and. According to the data, it was going 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. At least 30 people three people were killed and several others treated at the hospital. The train was making its first run along a new route. A tou
In a much more muted fashion a techinspired rally. We also had the russell, mid caps, transports all nicely higher slightly higher this morning, but only slightly. The one question mark yesterday given the rally was that the bank stocks did not take part, particularly on a day where yields rose as well. Lets look at yields they rose nicely yesterday so it was a proper riie risk ony the tenyear, 2. 46 this morning. Markets around the world asia was nicely stronger yesterday. Today stronger again not quite as resoundingly. We have a holiday in japan today. European boards were down yesterday, about 0. 3 , 0. 5 . Up today the ftse is flat germany and france are up a bit. Lets look at the broader markets. Oil prices gained a bit yesterday were flat yesterday, flat again today. Still nicely above 60 for wti 60. 5 the price this morning. Moving on to the gold price, which was up about half a percent yesterday. Flat today 1316 is the price of gold. Dollar the big question mark over the last c