But first, its with heavy heart that we report that france 24 has lost one of its own. He has passed away at the age of 59. His sudden death a shock to all of us here in the newsroom. He worked at Radio France International from 1984 as a correspondent in ivory coast and later gabon before becoming chief editor of african coverage. He joined france 24 in 2012. Calm, composed, and warm, an excellent colleague with profound insight, a loving man with a big heart. He was a journalist, a husband, and a father. His passing leaves a hole not just in our company but in the lives of so many people who knew him. Our condolences to his family and his friends. Now, these words from the president of the European Council. Donald tusk said no doubt this will be the most challenging g7 summit in years. The sicily town hosting the summit, which is a first for donald trump, u. S. President , on his maiden trip abroad. A whirlwind tour of five stops in eight days. Fresh off riling allies at a nato summi
Guy our flagship morning show right here in the city of london. Matt matt miller berlin. Great to see you. Manus much safer in here. Propensity for the wind and guests me off the roof. We are back in the bond market, friday morning standing on a new stop when the rooftop with the news came through. The bond yield dropped below 230. We made it back through this trade friday. Back down below 2. 30. 74. 87 for the band bond analytic guys up there. Prisons has been with bloomberg this morning. More of that. He seemed more confident, besides of the Balance Sheet that he wants to get it to. Yields have risen again. Wondering what he is going to say to the russians this week. Today. Collectors theres a whole other world out there that has become more positive. French Government Bond yields are up tenfold. German indie positive territory. A number of risks to this market and the foreign bond get that could add more pressure. One of we take a look at the risk radar . Not looking so risky except
Management urges bhp billiton to unify in australia. And slashing staleys salary. The barclays board decides on an very significant pay cut for the ceo following a whistleblowing probe. Will regulators go further, matt . Matt interesting breaking story that we will continue to follow. I want to take a look at the half hour to go until european open, at what futures are doing, at what the other risk assets are showing us. It looks like a risk on day to some extent. We see futures rising, although not huge gains. The euro stocks 50 futures up, more significant gains in london and frankfurt, not so much in paris. But if you take a look at bunds, it looks like investors they had been selling off german debt, and that push the yield up at the beginning of session. They have been buying at the route the first half hour of trade. You can see the trend here is risk off. If you look at the other asset classes, you see a risk off signal from the asian trade going into european trade as well. Guy
Good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. Show, we on todays speak to the head of g10 fx strategy at Merrill Lynch international, and the ceo and coast cio at shen of our financial group. At a financial group. Function and a message will come to me. It is monday morning, 9 00 in london. We are seeing a little bit of volatility, but nothing huge. Oil gaining. One i would like to keep an eye kospifter the costly slid this has to do with geopolitical concern lingering in korea. Weis extremely important keep an eye on what happens at the g7, where Foreign Ministers are showing up, and Rex Tillerson on wednesday heads to russia. It seems the world may be a little more uncertain than it was seven days ago. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra barclays said its board will issue a formal written reprimand and make mythic and cuts to the ceos pay after he tried to identify a whistleblower in 2016. They say he made an error in not applying
Charity, nick, and gayle breaking down the best on the web including taking a singing challenge by the backwards guy. Weve got trap queen backwards while getting his chest waxed. Lets see if he can pull it off. Living on the water means youve got great access to good fun recreation. Here you see three kids messing around by the water in new orleans, louisiana. Theyre jumping back and forth. The trouble with this video is these three kids are unsupervised. Oh, gosh. They hopped over into the neighbors yard. This is the neighbors property. And so they are out of sight and unsupervised as they bounce back and forth from this floating dock. The parent in me is freaking out. Because they look like 4, 5 years old. They look pretty young and start to get a little bit more bold as now theyre trying to dip themselves in. Now this one kid in the green no, no, no. Finally his buddy in the red shirt pulls him back up on the dock. Thats a sign that oh, no. But now the kid in red is in. Oh, no. Now