Anna a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Were here in the city of london. Manus well get straight into breaking news. Anna merck numbers coming through, First Quarter numbers from the German Health care business, matching estimates. Billion, 3. 83. 8 6 had been estimated. , interestingbitda to see what they say about the outlook. This is been a year that has been pivotal for merck. The Health Care Unit has made steps forward with its first new drug in more than a decade. It was clear tos sale in the u. S. Or quickly than expected. Thats where the focus will be. May put itssaid it three divisions into subsidiaries. We will keep and ill these numbers coming through and will be speaking to the management of this company a little bit later on coming up today in programming on bloomberg. They see fullyear net sales of 50. 5 going to 16 billion. Their are sticking to gut. Lets look at the list that we run here in bloomberg. The risk off sentiment grip the market yesterday. Wall stre
Make his statement at 11 30 eastern. We will be carrying that live. We had a joint News Conference from the f ei. Bloombergs International Economics correspondent in washington in washington today. The press conference will go ahead later on. Questions on this event. It is not clear that it was the majority with being targeted in any way. Accounts would suggest that in fact he was not being targeted. No, it does not appear this was a deliberate attempt to shoot him. Came to the baseball field and began firing indiscriminately. Was on secondtive base. Congressional republicans practicing for the annual charity game against democrats, that was scheduled to take place the baseballt at stadium in washington. A number of people. Because he is the number three Ranking Member of Health Leadership Representatives Police has a Capitol Hill Police detail with him. Those officers opened fire on the gunmen paired at least one was hit. Alexandria Police Responded within three minutes to the call an
For the fifth day and arose a row. Anna chandra is here. Multiple reports that president lawyers are trying to undercut Robert Mueller, who is investigating russia. According to the Washington Post, they are saying he has conflicts of interest. The president has been asking about pardoning aids, family members, even himself. Had anican student imprisoned in north korea. He was in a coma when he was released from eight north korean prison. The imf is ended two years of speculation and agreed it to another bailout of greece. Ilionw loan was 1. 8 dollars. That is contingent on debt relief. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. Jonathan thats a you get the euro down. I dont know if investors are by that. My own draghi brought the doves out. The euro is not buying it. The table andd the stimulus program. He delivered a hawkish message to the ecb. Highestthe euro to the in almost two years. Join this is Ri
European Equities Trading now 30 minutes until the end of the tuesday session. Stocks are rising with volume low, down 36 on the 100 day average, up for the first day in four. All of these currencies falling against the dollar with bond yields gaining and commodities. 100th Day Anniversary since Emmanuel Macron became the french president. The french benchmark, the first round, frank stocks rallied in the wake of the first round which led to the second round and led to the bakery of marine le pen. Potential winners of the promise reform. Mixed results. Investors looking to the labor ministry, which this week is set to reveal the outcome of months of talks. September not only a pivotal month for donald trump and his macrona big month for and his potential reforms of the labor market. This is the spread we talked a lot about in the runup to the two rounds of the election in april and may. In february, the spread, the difference between the french and german tenyear rose to the highest si
Month. The reporter who broke that story with the latest. And shares of Home Builders Toll Brothers after a mixed Earnings Report and well hear about the companys cautious outlook but we start with the latest on tax reform and a report from politico says the big six are making significant strides on a plan moving past the framework pushed out in july, and one of the big six, Speaker Paul Ryan, is optimistic about getting things done. Heres what he said in a town hall last night. I believe its going to be far easier for us to do tax reform than it was say for Health Care Reform all right how close are we to getting a plan, and what exactly would be in it . Joining us are politicos nancy cook and our own ylan mui. Glad to have you both here for this discussion. Nancy, i was looking at your proposal today about the items that people are kind of rallying around here, but they include controversial ones like, you know, capping the Mortgage Interest Rate deduction and getting rid of the dedu