s, 226. The Prime Minister must comply with the law. He can no longer used the threat of a no deal crash out to black male members to support his sellout deal. I will not negotiate a delay with the eu. And neither does the law compel me to do so. Welcome to Bloomberg Television from the city of london. We have been bringing you updates regarding the u. K. Political scene after the latest brexit headlines have come out. Saturday, the u. K. Parliament held a special session. Boriss newly minted deal did not make it to a vote. Thats why we are gearing up for a critical week and brexit and we could see the vote as soon as tomorrow. Lets look at how the fx market is trading after this, the pound 129ing softer than friday,. 84 on fridays close. It seems like traders need to start pricing in uncertainty regarding brexit. On the longerterm basis, analysts are bullish. Drop may be as buying opportunity. Longterm, everyone seems bullish. They think the eu will allow for the extension. What we ne
At the open. S p looking to be up by 1 point, the nasdaq off by 1 1 4 points overnight in asia, japan was closed for a public holiday. No trading or the nikkei most of asia was digesting Economic Data out of china the Second Quarter Economic Growth gdp slowing to 6. 2 , also coming off 6. 4 in the first quarter. Thats the weakest pace in 27 years. Industrial output, retail sales data also fixed Asset Investments were all above forecast chinese shares were down before the data was released. Then they turned positive. Overnight in europe, we are looking at i thought we were going to follow asias lead, pretty much flat across the board. The dakotas is off by 4 100 of a percent. The treasury yield market, the twoyear note 1. 845 . Just mention on the china data that markets responded better to the data for the first portion of trading in asia and europe and weve just sold off a little bit in the last few hours. As you pointed out that was just for june. Gdp for all three months it did see
13 points. The nikkei was down. Closed down by a half percentage point. You did see that stocks were higher in china. Hang seng up by 1. 5 then this morning in early trading in europe, take a look things are mixed stocks are slightly low ner germager lower in germany and france. Stocks in italy down by 0. 6 then you have crude oil. Crude Oil Yesterday ended up down back below 58. This morning its up, but still below 58, trading at 57. 57 to the story of the morning the closely watched senate race in alabama, Democrat Doug Jones is the apparent winner there, though republican roy moore is not conceding just yet john harwood joins us from birmingham he has that story. Good morning good morning. This was a very big victory for the Democratic Party first time they won a United States senate race in alabama in 25 years a big defeat for President Trump and his party. Look at the numbers. Twopoint lead for doug jones. Roy moore has not yet conceded he said gods in control were still waiting f
Here are some of our featured programs coming up this weekend on cspan. Saturday night, the state of black world conference discussing the impact of a 2016 election. Author of the book are we there yet . The executive director of the National Coalition and moderator mark, host of fm radios make it plain. Also, mayor of new york, new jersey. We get together as black folks in this country and we have an agenda, we also have to unite with other people. The object is to win. We do not want to just struggle for the struggles sake. There are thousands of people in our community who have been jailed and beaten and who are dead and all kinds of things. We are not activists and revolutionaries because it is fun. For metals, for awards, for twitter, for instagram. To be brave. They did it because it was necessary. American values, the Founding Fathers and the purpose of government. Meaning of america is persuasion, love. The meaning of america is building a better project product or persuading s
Up our first guest. Please welcome david marcus from Facebook Messenger and our moderator. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Messenger is always strived to be different from sms. First Group Texting and embraced stickers, animated gifts, what you see as the next big differentiator . We really, really like a realtime communications. As you have seen recently, we Just Announced and opened up to everyone this new thing we call instant video that enables you to have video. It is like you unmute your video for the other press to see while you type in you can start streaming while the other person had the honor a bus or a meeting and type and see you or see what you want to show them. Were going to continue investing in realtime communications. One of the things we have not talked about is we have over 300 million active users of video. That makes message or one of the biggest realtime apps in the world. Jason your not had video calling for very long, about a year ago. Te