Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percentage point if you look at crude oil prices, you will see at least this morning crude oil prices are up 16 cents 52. 04 for wpi. Brent crude up by 41 cents ibm shares are jumping this morning on better than expected results. The company beat on both the top and bottom lines but ibm still saw its 22nd straight quarter of revenue declines the cfo addressing those declining revenues on the Earnings Call last night as we said at the start of the year, and reiterated again in july, we said we would se
As 10,000 to customers who voluntarily give up their seats on overbooked flights. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Caroline im caroline hyde. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, big tech declares the first quarter. We will crunch the numbers. Alphabet survives its ad platform backlash and unleashes a banner first quarter. We will highlight the numbers across the board. Microsoft concerns bubble to the surface. Shares drop from record highs after the thirdquarter report. We explain why. Popping inon shares extended trading. I want to bring you up where we are currently performing, up about 4 in trading after record highs hit on thursday. 3. 6 , the ecommerce giant reported a 23 increase in sales and a profit of 724 million in its quarterly report. The Cloud Services arm reported 43 increase in sales. Founder and Ceo Jeff Bezos highlighted the
As 10,000 to customers who voluntarily give up their seats on overbooked flights. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Caroline im caroline hyde. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, big tech declares the first quarter. We will crunch the numbers. Alphabet survives its ad platform backlash and unleashes a banner first quarter. We will highlight the numbers across the board. Microsoft concerns bubble to the surface. Shares drop from record highs after the thirdquarter report. We explain why. Popping inon shares extended trading. I want to bring you up where we are currently performing, up about 4 in trading after record highs hit on thursday. 3. 6 , the ecommerce giant reported a 23 increase in sales and a profit of 724 million in its quarterly report. The Cloud Services arm reported 43 increase in sales. Founder and Ceo Jeff Bezos highlighted the
Want to call it that. Ten year note, man getting closer and closer as well. To the shorter term, in terms of the spread there. As you see, were at 2. 2. Crude is down after what had been a little bit of a rally of late. You can see also as well brent cruise down. Lets get to the big road map. It does start with the trump slump. As you just saw futures are pointing to another lower open and investors are wondering about new political turmoil. What it will mean for the gops pro growth agenda. Plus, the president takes to twitter calling the fbi and congressional russia probes quote, the greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. Cisco, it warns, shares fall. Company announces a weak outlook and about 1,100 job cuts. Ceo Chuck Robbins will be with us in ten minutes from now. Well talk to him about that. And including perhaps what was less spending than they had anticipated from the fed. A lot of problems there. Yeah. We have a lot to get to. Futures of course lower in a day
Yes. Were ready. [ inaudible ] thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President thank you. Love it. I really love ireland. Ill be there. Absolutely. Thank you, press thank you, press thank you. All right, a short but sweet pool spray in the oval with Prime Minister enda kenny. It will be a busy day for the president with regards to ireland. Theyre going to have an annual friends of ireland lunch around midday, and then to this afternoon, a st. Patricks day celebration, in which the Prime Minister will present the president with a bowl of shamroc shamrocks. Oh, okay. Thats a nice tradition. I couldnt make out much except President Trump saying i love ireland. And that is the story here, right, a historic bond between these two countries, ancestral ties. They are our 15th biggest trading partner. We have a trade deficit with ireland. We have a lot of irish immigrants, and its a friendly relationship. There was a little controversy back at home, unpopular policies from