Haidi welcome to daybreak australia. Im haidi stroudwatts in sydney. Paul we are counting down to Major Trading opens this hour with u. S. Stocks at alltime highs in the runup to fridays drop support with jay powell saying the fed is not far from the confidence needed to cut rates. Dovish signals too from the ecb with Christine Lagarde suggesting lowering borrowing costs us soon as june. Paul President Biden to deliver his state if the Union Election pitch making the case for his second term and a likely rematch with donald trump yet haidi a right decision crossing the bloomberg now with perot central bank leaving the reference rate on hold at 6. 25 . The forecast from Bloomberg Economics was a cut. Nearly all analysts in the survey saw the key rate falling to 6 . We saw inflation speeding to 3. 29 in february still above target. That expectation still that they would cut to the lowest level, more than 1. 5 years, that has not been carried through from the peru central bank. They left
On the russia channel time of the main news of the day on the air big things in the studio hello and todays footage from the svo zone after the ukrainian attempt to attack with an unmanned boat, new strikes from the Russian Armed forces on Airborne Forces day were detected and destroyed Mikhail Androniks report from under artyomovsk the most the best weather to call in artyomovsk is pouring rain in the belgorod region, the fighters began to issue weapons. Ukraine did not justify. The hope of the west is the soldiers loss of money is huge, the money destined for ukraine is transferred to taiwan the other day i saw a burning cleopard tank. I mean, leopard two modern german tanks, cant do anything for bidens victory donald trump is accused of conspiring to deceive the us the pursuit of trump follows its own logic on march 17, hunterbiden admitted that the scandalous his laptop the next day trump is charged by the polish Prime Minister explained to zelensky that it was not in his position
Abnormal economic and trade exchanges with all countries in the world, including russia on the basis of equality and mutual benefits allows no destruction or sabotage and made room as washington may be binding the wheels as long all of sanctions of a china is tides with russia to nations. Foreign minister says nothing can interfere with its suffering district. The live on worldwide, just off the midnight here with the russian capital. This is not the incident. So in just the last 24 hours alone, ukraine has lost more than a 1000 troops. That is, according to russias ministry of defense, to he is into the costs like a power. The key of loss is now amounts to about half a 1000000. That is something ukraines west and responses will never tell you that was installed to prevent the collapse of the Ukrainian Armed forces. Washington intends to send almost 61000000000. 00 to the key of regime board. Most of that will be used to finance the us Defense Industry, across american authorities, cyn
A bitter pill. Also coming up pope francis breaks his silence on the plight of the ropin job calling for decisive International Action on the refugee crisis has been a celebrating an outdoor mass in bangladesh for more than six hundred thousand warheads are now living after fleeing from violence in myanmar. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us today sees a key meeting of germanys social democrats as they edge towards joining talks for a new Coalition Government germanys president has been pushing to get a chance long americal and social democrat leader martin shields to break the deadlock over forming a new government and they met last night at the president ial palace in berlin with discussions lasting more than two hours chancellor merkel has been trying to. Put together a government since i mean election on september twenty fourth the social democrat leader Martin Charles had earlier ruled out forming another coalition with merkels party but pressure is building on him
Seeking 1 billion to get out of its iron ore joint venture in brazil. Betty a billion dollar headache for bhp, a 7 billion windfall for jpmorganwells fargo, that really propelled the market higher on friday. Along with that inflation data. In record territory in the u. S. , what a month it has been. Lets quickly pull up the boards to see how much we gain, the s p closing at a record, the dow adding over 200 points, the nasdaq also higher. I get the feeling a lot of this will be as the markets are so high, a lot of it will depend on the news we get this week, including earnings, the higher the markets go, the more vulnerable it might be to pullbacks. And many of us have wouldhe first of 2018, we see a pullback, it has been dead wrong so far. Saying thech, biggest on record. Find the bears are throwing in the towel. Looking to see some gains with the u. S. Markets closed for the holiday monday. This is how we are faring in new zealand, about 1 5 of 1 . 72. 47 for the qb right now. Thedol