Companies will meet today to thrash out a rail deal nestle says it will speed up share buybacks and pursue external Growth Opportunities as the Swiss Company pledges to improve margins and cut costs. Good morning, everyone its tuesday glad youre with us once again we have another jam packed show. Lets kick things off with a look at the equity markets youre onehour into the trading session. Were fairly even steven at this point. The latest escalation in the war of words between north korea and the u. S. Is not helping. We are largely brushing that off. Stoxx 600 is close to session highs. Safe havens are seeing inflows are gold, the yen and the swiss. Markets one by one, the xetra dax is just clinging on to the flat line, off by 5 points ftse 100 off by 0. 2. Cac 40 up by 0. 1 . When it comes to sectors, a couple interesting things to tell you about oil is not doing too badly up 0. 3 this as brent is moving closer to the 60 a barrel mark. Tech seeing underperformance. You have it down b
U. S. Cpi is due out today. Can the fed raise rates again this year if that measure remains subdued . s head start. She is holding a 15 point lead, but will still need a coalition partner. Who will it be, matt . Matt that is the question we are all discussing in germany. We will be discussing that over the next six weeks, for sure. Right now, a more immediate threat. We are less than 30 minutes from the european open. Futures are down across the board after the big drop in tehe u. S. Yesterday. As guy mentioned, people fleeing into haven assets. Bitcoin is trading at an all intraday high. The bunds, coming down. This trend is interesting. Over the last month we have come down from 0. 6 to 0. 5 . Trendmove in a downward as investors prepare for more risk. If i look at it one day look at the bund trade, we have come down in yields, meaning investors are buying debt, se eking safety and pushing the yield down to 0. 4 . Guy gmm is a fantastic function because it creates a score card and ra
In for a big surprise. We are on wilders watch. The great man is going to come down those stairs, through here, into the chamber and that is our one chance to have a natter with him. Mr wilders, bbc newsnight. Are you going to do to holland what mr trump is doing to america . I am not mr trump, i am my own man, in my own party, in my own country. But indeed, there is what i call a patriotic spring going on. We saw the beginning of it with brexit, that even though the political elite was making sure the people were afraid to vote in favour of leaving the European Union, the people did, the majority. We saw in the United States that despite all the rhetoric of the elite, mr trump won the election. I hope i can repeat the same thing, because once again the people want to be in charge again. Its not only america first, its also holland first, and thats what i will try to accomplish. Some people say you are a bit of a fascist though . Some people say that. Dont listen to those people. Some
York, boston and philadelphia. Were here at the nasdaq. Things are moving just as expected. The New York Stock Exchange is expected to operate normally. Take a look at the u. S. Equity futures. They are indicated slightly lower after a mixed day yesterday for the markets. The dow futures are down by 13 points. S p futures down by less than a point. The nasdaq down by 1. 7. Overnight, in asia, there were some red arrows when it came to the nikkei, which was down by 0. 10 . The hang seng was flat, the shanghai was too. In some early trading in europe, youll see that tlinhings are relatively flat there as well. German chancellor Angela Merkel meeting with President Trump, its been postponed. I said we would give you headlines nothing to do with the snow, but this is because of the snowstorm. Merkel was on the way to the airport when she received a call from President Trump to delay the visit. She continued on to the airport and told reporters on the plane the trip was canceled. That is no
Dynamics between the region of government of baghdad as well as shifting relations between the groups including the syrian and iraqi satisfactions and implications. I am pleased to have with me an Extremist Group this morning. They include our own associates at the carnegie little east foundation. I cant see him from there. The Research Focused on the dynamics of the syrian conflict and the political role and Security Transformation in the arab world. We are also joined by our associate. He is formerly a researcher at the academy. His research has focused on iraq and authority in islam and middle eastern history and politics. Natalie is the senior fellow of the National University here in washington. Denise was formally a researcher working in the turkish regions of iraq. Turkey, iran, and syria. She specializes on the Regional Energy security and conflict state building. Finally to my immediate left is joseph who has just joined us here in d. C. As a visiting scholar at the carnegie e