Companies that do business with north korea. Is daybreak asia live from bloombeergs u. S. And asia headquarters. Man. Am yvonne taking a look at how things are ,oing, we saw this slow churn Apple Earnings the big thing after the bell and what it will mean for suppliers. Thats right. President ok at why trumps pick for ambassador to china. We are at the milken conference in Beverly Hills. Hour. Eat guest this that, the austrian trade downter will be sitting with bloomberg on this tpp campaign after the u. S. Dropped out. It seems like he is turning the tide to their. We will see if he can continue to spread his message in Beverly Hills. Markets in the region, a slow churn higher come the fed come the jobs report friday, the second round of the French Elections over the weekend, but the kiwi dollar goting after we unemployment numbers dipping more than 4. 9 . Noteems like there will be be much resistance. Stocks flat. Australia snapped at days of gains on tuesday. Lets see how futures ar
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Tillerson calls the u. S. Military strikes a message to nations including north korea, as he touches down for the g7 meeting. Shares of stada soars. And the urt gets a boost after the adviser sends a letter to investors calling for the miners to stop the Core Drilling structure and spin off of the business. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to street signs. I thought i was being smart is this morning. I looked at the markets when they initially opened. Completely flat, a bit of red, a bit of green. And now theres more red. More red . It there is, yeah. A bit more red. Smaller markets just hanging on it to that spot of optimism, by and large, more negative within the last hour of trade. And european markets reflecting exactly that. Keeping in mind we have the much anticipated payroll figure on friday. Maybe its a wait and see scenario on this mornings Early Morning trade. When it comes to the sectors, reflecting what weve seen on screen, the oil and fuel and beverages, basically higher b
Time. We are largely positive if only fractionally so. The ftse is slightly in the red. Remember, that has had quite the gains over the last four months or so, since the brexit vote, up about 15 . Crude prices retreating this morning from yesterdays 15month high. We saw a bigger draw down in inventories. Wti pierced 52 bucks a barrel. It came off down about 1 . The market will be watching that. Maybe not as correlated as it was before. No. The market picks and chooses. One day it looks oil. One day it likes the pound. Or we in hindsight say what did oil do and see how it affects the market. The banks had earnings, not bad. No one died. Not awful. Not awful. Not the money they used to make, but with doddfrank and Everything Else, we decided not awful. Goldman sachs had double digit return. Not awful. Our economy, 2 , rest of the world, 2 . Not awful. David faber being told by blankfein that this is not permanent, we will be growing 1. 3 forever. Not awful. Hes like its not awful, but it
Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. We have the rain coming down in the metro area and our temperatures are cold, above freezing, so you need to layer up if youre heading out. Need an umbrella. Getting light to moderate rain, this dark green zone, northwest washington into montgomery county, northernin county and moderate rain here just about to come into Fairfax County, into loudoun county, out of Prince William and in southern maryland, too, getting moderate rain. All of this advancing to the north. Heavy rain, this one band of yellow this is just right now near charlottesville on a track to get closer to the metro area later on this afternoon. Ive got new hourbyhour timing on when the heaviest rain will be arriving and when its going for the weekend in just a you few minutes. You thank you, tom. Right now d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is inside trump tower meeting with the president elect. Mark segraves is live. Good morning, mark. Reporter good morning, barbara. Mayor bowser asked