National Regional Parliament needs to approve a trade deal with singapore. Will it make brexit harder or easier . Easyjet firstquarter numbers , worse than expected. Is this as bad as it gets . This is the question we will put to the ceo, Carolyn Mccall. She joins us at 8 30. Matt less than a half hour away from the open. Take a look at where futures are pointing for European Equity indexes. We have a next trade, but almost no movement on futures. It almost feels like we have crested and are just hanging at the top. Global stocks yesterday rose to a record high on the promise of more spending out of china to boost global infrastructure. We saw at one point s p rising to its highest level. We saw at one point asian stocks, the nikkei touching 20,000. Things are coming off from their, but still relatively high levels, and we see futures hanging right now in the air. Take a look at the bund trade. Let me zoom in so you can get a sense of whats happened just in the past 10 minutes. Investo
Pfizer is a to be close to buying a rival for around 14 million. Caroline manus, we are looking ahead to the market open. A bit of profit this monday, similar to what we saw on friday, the futures market signaling a down day in europe. All eyes are on central banks, on jackson hole, as we see that it is a day of dollar strength. Today we could see 2 10 of 1 being wiped off the euro stocks 60. Manus caroline, yes indeed. Lets have a look at that risk radar. Betterlar is bid, yen offered. Fischer signaling a 2016 rate hike is on the cards, less than a week to go until jackson hole. Dollaryen, you have movement. Very much this divergent policy, kuroda also indicating that the bank of japan wont hesitate. This is in a newspaper article over the weekend. Bloomberg, a 51 probability of a rate hike, up from last week. Keep an eye on your government notes. They get a twomonth high, oil indicates that it adds to the rhetoric of the bond market. Hedge funds cut their bullish bets by the most in
Investigated by the u. S. Department of justice. U. S. Stocks are mixed. Disappointing earnings from some of the biggest check giants. Biggest tech giants. And the revival of a classic, the Indian Motorcycle brand. How it hopes to take on the american classic Harley Davidson. Desk head to the markets where julie hyman has the latest on how markets are trying to climb up today. Lots of earnings. Julie it would be a surprise if we got any gain at all. We are seeing some gains in the dow and s p in particular. The nasdaq is being dragged down by some of those numbers. I want to hit some of those big stories. It seems like the focus is not macro, it is on these individual companies. Lets get to some of them in. Echnology thirdquarter earnings sell short because of a higher tax rate. Kind of mirroring the situation with ibm, both of these are legacy tech giants that are trying to push forward to the corrupt to the cloud, to other businesses . Way still do things the old , in the case of mic
And flights between michigan and the slaughter of be suspended. Ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, thailands primers a player sonata, and 10 of his ministers are survived and no confidence vote. Opposition parties claim the government has mismanaged the economy and say its violated rules and ethics. Tony chain has more from bangkok. I think the suggestion is now amongst the voting public or that theyre really not very happy with the general private and his government at the they seen mismanagement of the cove with crisis. They feel were also seeing in increasing the cost of living crisis, which is biting very hard here in thailand. And i think we, weve also seen sort of cracks emerging in the Ruling Coalition ahead of this vote of no confidence. Not that theyve actually come through because he won by a considerable margin of 50 votes, but i think the feeling is a lot of the smaller parties within the rolling coalition will be jockeying for power. So the challenge facing
Are burning as the continents welters in a fierce heat wave firefighters in western spain, attacking forest fires to the threatening lives and homes. Planes and helicopters are being used in the Fire Fighting effort in northwestern them or a province dozens of villages have been evacuated and at least 2 people have died. Theyve also been reco temperatures experienced across france, and has been a string of fires across london as the u. K recorded its highest temperature breaking at 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time. London mass, a deacon said the cities fire brigade was under immense pressure dealing with outbreaks and had received an extraordinary number of emergency calls. Russias president has made a rash if abroad visiting terror on for summit on syria. Let me putin ad talks with rons president abraham racy and turkish lead a rich up tie up at one point and also discussed a un batch proposal to resume exports of ukrainian grain in the black sea to help ease the label for crisis.