Equities climb as President Trump delivers a measured response to iranian strikes on u. S. Bases. He does, however, promise new sanctions on tehran. Fighting back, japan calls of itsghosns criticism legal system absolutely intolerable. This after he blasted tokyo for hostage justice. Plus, not so fast. Hard. In hong kong hits u. K. Retailers post sales britishafter what the Retail Consortium called the worst year on record. Speaking of that m s Third Quarter, looks like u. K. Sales theout, gaining 0. 2 , and fullyear guidance has been ishanged, but mark spencer out with like for like u. K. Sales. We are also getting german trade balance and current account data right now as well as industrial , the Industrial Production yearoveryear figure, a drop of 2. 6 . The survey was for a drop of 3. 7 . It is a bad number but not as bad as had been anticipated in terms of the current account balance. We are looking at 24. 9 billion, we were looking for 23 point 8 billion. German Industrial Produc
Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a ron striking back with iran striking back after the u. S. Air strike that killed top iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. For more, simon foxman joins us from doha. What is the latest on the retaliatory attacks on the part of iran . Big question has been whether or not there are any casualties caused by this attack. We just saw, as i was sitting down, it appears u. S. Officials are saying no casualties. That they were informed of this before it happened. If there were casualties, it would have caused a much stronger u. S. Response, the thinking goes. If not, perhaps we could see ourselves moving towards some type of negotiation, some sort of diplomatic resolution. The ayatollah, and he the Ayatollah Khomeini saying this is a slap in the face to the United States. The foreign minister, though, taking a bit more of a co
That news taking 50 points a off of the dow industrials, mornings with maria begins right now. Maria top story iran striking back overnight, iran fired over a dozen missiles at two bases in iraq housing american soldiers, so far no american casualties have been reported in attacks, the president tweeted overnight about the attack, he writes this, all is well, missiles launched from iraq, assessment of casualties and damages taking place now, so far so good, we have the most powerful, wellequipped military anywhere in the world by far, the president write, i would be making statement tomorrow morning, we will take the statement for you. Joining me right now ceo anthony, here this morning onset campusreform. Org and dagen mcdowell, kevin oleary. Lets get your reaction this morning to the showdown with iran and what you perceive as irans goal here. Hi, maria, good morning to the team there, you know, what has happened is we essentially took, if you think of thises is a chess match, we too
Brands at morgan stanley. Plenty of good news stories in the market today. The 10 year yield is at 1. 84 . A couple of dynamics going on here, not least of which Stephen Mnuchin talking about issuing a 20 year bond to help with the deficit. Guy really interesting story. Here in europe, stocks are at record highs. , a couple of reasons for this, one of which is the china data we will talk about in just a moment. Your conversation with phil hogan, the eu trade commissioner, sounding reasonably positive overnight in the conversation you had with him. That has helped sentiment here as well. Really weak retail data out of the u. K. Today, confirming the idea we could see a bank of england rate cut shortly. The pound is trading lower on that. Weve also got key levels being tested and it comes to eurodollar as well. I am told you want to watch out 1. 1080, a really key line in the sand. 1. 1102 right now. Growth helped by industrial output, retail sales, and fixed investments, all beating est
Dennis muilenburg, replacing him will be the former chair, technically chair, will step out of chair, become president and ceo, David Calhoun he becomes president and ceo effective january 13th what was the final straw that broke the camels back in large part, the relationship between boeing and the faa which is completely broken down over the last several months. I learned from sources that this morning David Calhoun called the head of the faa, steve dixon it was a short but amicable phone call in that call calhoun said to dixon boeing welcomes rigorous oversight. He also said boeing wants to be regulated. This is a big change in tone for boeing compared to where it was a few months ago but in terms of whether or not Dennis Muilenburg was not going to be in the job for long, it was expected for some time his tenure would be short. This is our conversation with him in the halls of capitol hill just a couple months ago have there been discussions with the board maybe once this is certif