Hello from sydney where it is past 8 00 a. M. We are two hours away from the open of asias first major market, reacting with the remarkable developments in the French Elections. Betty that is right, setting up the Runoff Election in a few weeks. It is just after 6 00 p. M. In new york. We will be looking at how all the action on wall street is going to play into the asiapacific trading day. The top story today, we mentioned and time zero, immigrant Leader Marine Le Pen is against the untested Emmanuel Macron for the presidency of france. Earning20 with macron 22 . Withois fillon came third another up forth. The markets, quite a dramatic day. Gaininghere was lots of out of different scenarios, what would be worst to the market, manageable. How would you describe this result . I would say it is manageable for the market, especially the reaction from the euro, reaching a fivemonth high against the u. S. Dollar. Remember results are still being counted, so we could see Emmanuel Macron taki
Seven state losing streak. Bernie sanders needs to make up ground for delegates. Global news, 24hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists, in 150 news bureaus around the world. Bloomberg west is next. Emily this is bloomberg west. Forng up, the stage is set another highprofile showdown between the Tech Industry and the government. Microsoft is in the spotlight, a law that stops the company from telling customers when the government wants to access their data. Elondo you spot the next musk . An entrepreneur capable of starting several companies . Looking for those people in china. Redstone will not be testifying in a case over his competency. All of bring you up to the twists and turns in the highstakes saga. Microsoft sets the stage for highprofile confrontation between the government and Silicon Valley over consumer privacy. A lawsuit in seattle was filed against the Justice Department attempting to change a law that bars Tech Companies from telling consumers when the Government As
A conservative leader in the house warns Publican Party leaders not to change the rules to allow somebody other than donald trump or ted cruz to win the party nomination. , jim jordanm caucus told cspan, primary results show Republican Voters went and antiestablishment candidate. The debate tonight between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton comes days before next weeks new york primary. Hillary clinton is trying to snap a seven state losing streak. Senator sanders needs to make up ground in the race for delegates. The latest polls show Hillary Clinton ahead by 10 points. Powered by our 2400 journalist and more than 150 nerves euros, im mark crumpton, bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, the stage is set between the Tech Industry and the government. This time it is microsoft in the spotlight, doing the suing the doj over a law that stops the company from telling customers when the government wants to access their data. How do you spot the
Brent lower by a dollar, back below 40, decline of 2. 6 . More on the markets in a moment. First we kick things off with tensions running high on the campaign trail politics turning violent. This weekend, the fists come at a trump rally in illinois. The gop frontrunner blaming Bernie Sanders backers. Look at that person, that foolish person. All right, get them out of here. Get them out. Send them back to bernie. Send them back. This isnt the first time violence has erupted at a trump event. Watch this attack from just last week. Secret Service Agents had to make their move to protect trump after someone tried to get on the stage. If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you, seriously. Just knock the i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees, i promise. I promise. Hot rhetoric on the campaign trail. Tensions rising there. And meantime we have exclusive new data on who wall street wants to see win the white house this november. Steve lie
Climate is impacting the outlook for the american economy, which includes everything from taxes to jobs to foreign trade. And these forecasts are something investors are watching closely since the economy only grew at 1 in the final three months of last year. Steve liesman breaks down the results of the survey. Interesting results from the cnbc fed survey. We asked a bunch of political questions and what you see is of our 42 respondents, 56 say the campaign is negative for the economic outlook. 5 say its positive and 39 say it has no effect. As for party choice, which party would be better for the economy, 18 say democrats and 40 say republicans but a large percentage says it doesnt matter or they are not sure, which is higher than weve seen in other surveys. How about the candidate who will be best for the economy here. Zero percent say sanders, 13 trump, 16 clinton and 42 Governor John Kasich is seen as being best for the economy. How about best for wall street . Similar results here