Could the feds meeting be a catalyst for gains . Wrote erode. Dont miss our conversation with the ceo of automaker psa group. We saw gains on the s p 500. The benchmark erasing last weeks drop. The rebound in tech stocks overshadowing a slide in banks. Futures on the front foot today. Postinguropean futures gains after we saw europes benchmark close in the red yesterday. Pretty much flat right now. The 10 year yield back above. The dollar at a 22 month low. Gold futures touching 2000. If you look at the spot price we are trading at 1009 hundred 45 an ounce, edging up 0. 2 . Havee republicans presented a rescue plan to bolster the u. S. Economy. Before that, breaking headlines. 300 millionabout euros as an impairment in the secondquarter results. That is the headline just crossing from ing. We will bring more details as we get them. It is booking a 300 million euro as an impairment in secondquarter results. We have a line coming through from delivery hero, raising its guidance after gro
His cabinet. Caroline. Us bring in about psa. T ask you what do we expect to hear from the board . How quickly will the acquisition happen . Groupne we have the psa Board Meeting this afternoon. Signing and mo you by the end of the day. Sources, to bloomberg one big obstacle has already been removed. A stake owner is backing the mou and this is key. Remember in june, the state backer was responsible for making the merger between fiat and. The future governance of the new entity and the synergies between them and the psa group. To remainthe chairman chairman of the new entity. Expect also the psa group to have six seats on the board. We expect the entity to be based in the netherlands. It will have offices in new york, paris, and milan. To access the u. S. Market with chrysler and jeep. However, two legal obstacles remaining. One with italian authorities and the other with chrysler being accused by General Motors of bribery. The company has denied wrongdoing. Anna thank you very much. M
Investors see trade tensions using. Winskongs prodemocracy in a landslide. Record numbers turn out for the first vote since the unrest began. Good morning. Lets have a look at what the futures are telling us about the European Equity session. The first of the week, looks like it could be positive. Factoring in a little bit of the balance we saw in the u. S. Market on friday and adding to that. U. S. Futures also suggests we will be higher. We saw that bounce in the u. S. On friday. Trump saying the u. S. Was very close to a trade tax. Lets put up that. Trading around the scraps of information with regard to trade dialogue between the u. S. And china. With that in mind lets get to the gmm. That shows us what is moving in the asia session. Hong kong up by 1. 4 . Trump line from friday. Also the news from headlines, china talking about tougher penalties for companies that break the rules around intellectual property. That may be is designed to sooth tensions between the u. S. And china be
15 rebound over the past three days. Orl 2018 bring more gains the traditional new york new year hangover . This or market focus on news of a trump tax gain . We are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. Lets take a look at where we stand and what we will be doing. Lets take a look at the fair value calculations around europe. The london market looks at it will open in positive territory. It looks as if we will see some weakness coming through in some of the continental markets. That is what the bloomberg is kicking out. Lets show you what is happening on the gmm. The gmm is interesting in terms of what it will be showing us. Lets talk about why china sold off this morning, that was interesting. The rest of asia had a positive session but china was down at the close by 1. 5 on the 300. It was interesting to see the consumer end of the spectrum. Also showing signs of weakness. The chinese currency on the move overnight to keep an eye out what is happening. Lets
Largecap tech is lagging the overall market gains. We see the dow perform the best. One of the reasons the dow is performing so well today is indeed walmart. Seeing a gain of 5 on that forecast for ecommerce sales to rise 40 in the next fiscal year in the united states. Walmart has been making investments in ecommerce for years and it looks like now they are finally starting to pay off. At the expense of amazon. Amazon seen as a big competitor walmart and analysts im putting alibaba up here as well. Those shares also rising today. Amazon the market cap of versus alibaba. We last saw alibaba as larger than amazon market cap wise in mid2016. Alibaba with larger than amazon market cap. We will keep an i on this metric to see if that trend is continue. We are watching oil prices, which have been supportive of break stocks, in particular drillers. Crude oil pushing closer to 51 a barrel as we hear from the opec chair saying we see an expansion in the number of countries signing on to the Pr