Wilcox. Now to the lead, square has filed for public offering, this according to people with knowledge of the matter. Square is in the mobile payments business. The platform was founded by jack dorsey, you know him as a cofounder of twitter. Currently he is the interim ceo. Last year the company processed 30 billion in payments from millions of merchant customers. It is expanding into other areas like business lending and payroll processing. Joining us to discuss their future is leslie picker who broke the story for bloomberg news. Also the cofounder of button. And on the phone is sarah frier, who covers both square and twitter for bloomberg news. Leslie, why file confidentially isnt that suspect . Leslie because they can. They have less than 1 billion in revenue. It gives them the opportunity to make revisions with the fcc, it is about a three month process. If you are a socalled emerging Growth Companies like square you can do that outside the public eye. Most companies, it is close
Streak since january but are rising on better than forecasted earnings and we have lots of earnings to go through. Andre talking about china how it stabilized one chinese plunged after lower sales, trading almost 20 lower from yesterdays close. Its the biggest loss since 2009 for the company. Moving onto oil and gold we have seen a commodities route. Oil prices are rebounding and oil is trading near a fourmonth low. Down 19 still trading near the bear market of 20 territory from its may peak. Pimm lets take it check of the treasury market. There is little bit of selng on bonds. The 10 year is 2. 25 . This is over the past week and we can see a decline in the yield meaning the prices were a bit up. The intraday is moving a little bit higher with selling in the 10 year coming as the Federal Reserve began to two day meeting to consider raising Interest Rates. Lets take a look at the dollar and major currencies the euro is losing ground against the dollar. Poundn is stable and the sterling
January on better than forecast earnings syria take a look at the s p 500 a year to date shows 3 . Index of one point that is a look at the year to date chart. Up one point 36 . Nymex crude is on the rise. T is up just over 1 take a look at the chart there. That a year chart or is that today . Fourmonth chart down just over 4 . Trading nearnt bear market territory. Also looking at the fourmonth chart there. Ar market chart. Taking a look at consumer confidence, dropping the most since 2011. Where did treasuries and up . Where our treasuries trading right now and . Yield are still going out. That partly has to do with maybe the fed and the fact they are holding their first of their twoday meeting. Yields rising for the first time in a week. They had been declining in response to much of what we are the in china and around world. Finally, currencies take a look at the dollar rising for the first time in four days versus the yen. In stocks and commodities, that slow down. Stabilizing the
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Coming up this hour, autos. Peugeots first half earnings surge. We are speaking to the cfo live from paris in about 10 minutes time. Make sure you stay tuned for that. First up, barclays german john mack farland says hes going to step up the pace of cuts to the british lender. The Bank Reported secondquarter profits of 1. 8 5 billion pounds. That matched analyst estimates. Profits at the Investment Bank jumped 35 . For more, we are joined by our london finance reporter, julie of her lane. Julia these results sound like mcfarlane is ready to take the bank by the scruff of the neck. Julia he is going to run down the noncore by 2017 to bring down riskweighted assets. I think he is there to accelerate the whole process that jenkins started. You had equities down 2 and Investment Banking fees down 11 . It has been offset by the macro performance. Manus in terms of these job cuts, where do we think they are going to come from . Wil
Al qaeda leaders as they plotted the 9 11 attacks. An afghan official says omar died two to three years ago across the border in pakistan. The taliban says the group will release a statement shortly. Congress will question pentagon officials today about that iran nuclear deal. A Senate Committee want to know how the agreement could affect the military balance in the middle east. Yesterday, secretary of state john kerry test of ride before a house committee. All makers from both parties sounded skeptical about irans promise not to build atomic weapons. Matt microsofts new operating system windows 10 was released at midnight. It sparked a surge of computer buying but that is unlikely this time. Still, microsoft Vice President told bloomberg that this launch is very important. This is a pretty significant launch for anybody who uses pcs and wants to get things done with technology. We have had big window launches that have brought in things like enabling the internet to happen. I think wi