Companys products spans various sectors. Thats what makes it so interesting. The ceo will join us exclusively ahead, but we begin with todays market and bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. Bob . Hello, jon. Good to see you. We have been chopping around in a fairly narrow range and the trend is up and certainly since the pc report and the s p 500 and the trends been up here were trying to get to the 200day moving average and were at 5114 now, slowly, but surely. A lot of strength in boeing, thats great news. Apple. Caterpillars been strong. Goldman sachs has been strong and thats at a 52week high and a number of big movers nasdaq, the bigcap tech is mixed and lets take a look at the midcap tech stock and meta and alphabet is down 2 and amazon will close tomorrow and it is up fractionally here global industrials have been having a great little run in the last couple of days and thats good to see. Boeing, lets get out of this month and one of the worst month ever and boeing was nea
The standout story is what is happening in catalonia this morning. What else are we watching . Manus how a Civil Servants going to react to that declaration . The European Growth story is a story of amazing growth. An amazing growth. Growth. Azing a 14 premium. Out with exalted. Axalta. After axalta to cr to million beast. Italian news the on friday, that is adding to that sentiment. This is sterling. Is will mark carney deliver in terms of a rate hike . We have a guest say he was a major surprise if the bank did not hike this week given the recent signals. If there is one central bank that is not bothered about the concern, it is the bank of england. What kind of rate hike is priced and seems to be one and done. We can calculate the battery that sterling has taken. The brexit secretary, the complexion of the cabinets, what is going to happen in terms of the political benches in parliament. These are december futures. Pretty much unchanged. It will be down to what the bank of england d
Unveils the conservative Party Election platform this morning. Should businesses be perturbed by some of her policies . This is bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Check out what is happening to equities. Yesterday we saw the biggest drop on the stoxx 600 since september. Today the decline continues. Biggest twoday drop since november. We are down of further 0. 5 . Index is rising today. The first day of gains and seven after falling to a november low yesterday. The u. S. 10year yield unchanged at 2. 2 , dropping 10 basis points on wednesday to 2. 3 , the lowest since april 19. Ing. Is fall there is less of a flight to safety haven assets today. Its biggest gain yesterday since june 24. Lets get to first word news. Starting with the u. K. , Prime Minister theresa mays conservatives are expected to unveil their Party Manifesto today ahead of the u. K. s general election which takes place in three weeks. May will tell wealthier, elderly voters they will have to pay for prom
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london, tom keene in new york. The banks are the biggest industry losing ground in europe and you have Credit Suisse, ubs and commerzbank down between 7 and 8 . Tom i would note when i walked in the door american oil was below 40 a barrel. Francisco blanch is going to join us in a bit, but it is a deceptive tuesday. There is a lot going on. Francine lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Japans economic stimulus plan will increase spending by 45 billion this year according to a draft being discussed by the ruling party today. It includes lowcost loans and money for infrastructure and disaster relief. They have been hurt by a stronger yen and week consumer spending. Australias central bank has cut Interest Rates to a record low. They lower the cash rate by a quarter percent to 1. 5 . Inflation and wage growth are at record lows. Warren buffett is challenging donald trump to meet him anytime and anyplace to reveal their tax returns. While campaig
With first word news. Vonnie we are following breaking news out of mali this morning. None man attacking the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital of bamako. Rumor is that there are 170 hostages. The Army Commander tells the ap that 20 of the captives have been freed. Until bloomberg there are u. S. , french, and the hotel. Ps in two malian citizens and one french citizen are dead. Here are the latest of elements from paris. Nearly one week after the attacks there, a third body found in a department that was rated two days ago. The body of an unidentified woman. The suspected ringleader of last weeks attacks was killed in the raid. The European Union is being urged to implement security measures that were passed earlier this year. ,nd the oldest mosque in France Services are canceled because of security worries. We are also hearing this morning from the german interior ministry, a spokesman commenting in berlin, saying one of the attack suspects came through germany. The senate has not ind