Got to get back in time here is what else is happening at this hour, its a good time to buy a house, if you can find one for sale. Mortgage rates hitting the lowest level since november. The 30year fix now 3. 95 , but housing inventory, the number of homes for sale, remains very low in some cities. The home of the little blue box is giving investors a gift. Tiffany boosting its Quarterly Dividend by 11 and more departures at ford. This time its Global Product Development chief is leaving. Becky, thank you very much. Folks, stop me if you heard this one before its another recordsetting day for your investments. Were in the middle of a sixday win streak propelling yet you heard scott and melissa say i but ill say it again the s p 500 and nasdaq hitting new highs. The dow not far behind. Check this out, the nasdaq is now up 16 of 19 trading days so far this month. That is putting it on pace to have the most up days versus down days of any month since all the way back in september of 1996.
09 . Actually we saw reversal. Lauren mixed bag right now. Cheryl merger derail facing antitrust concerns. Walgreen going to buy half of riteaid stores. Lauren guess what . Its highered a diversity team. Cheryl 5 01 a. M. In new york. Friday june 30th, last trading day of the month of june. Good morning, everyone. Im cheryl casone. Lauren im lauren simonetti, welcome to fbn am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. Cheryl breaking news this morning, a scaledown version of President Trumps travel ban taking effect last night with no chaos to report. Lauren quite a different story from january. Tracee carrasco with the details. Hey, tracee. Tracee highlydebated travel order went into effect last night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. No reports of protesting and chaos that we saw with the original version of the president s executive order back in january. The new rules tighten visa policies affecting citizens from six majority muslim nations, sudan, sy
Seconds. Crazy. People came in shooting everything. Isis claims responsibility for the turkey nightclub attack. Harrowing video shows the moment the gunman stormed into a popular club and opened fire. He is public enemy number one. Everybody in the Security Service working to try to find him. P we know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. Donald trump promising to reveal new information on russian hacking, information he claims no one else has. If hes going to have any credibility as president , he needs to stop talking this way. North korea is hinting its about to test a long ring missile. Kim jongun says its country will boost its military capabilities. An Oklahoma Police officer is recovering after being shot during a traffic stop. A manhunt is under way. In texas three people have died after two small planes crashed mid air. Did they hit each other . Oh, my god, oh, my god Queen Elizabeth did not attend a new years Church Service due to a cold. Despite her
Happy president s day if you are joining us from the United States. Good afternoon. Anna edwards, good afternoon. There you go. Stoxx 600 up for a second consecutive day, the highest level since december. It will be a quieter day today because of the president s day holiday. No chart shows a better story, no two day chart shows a better. Tory 143 billion, that was the bid put on the table for unilver from kraft heinz. The shares surged 13 on friday. The biggest gain ever, a record. Or unilver today, shares fell 9 . Kraft heinz walking away. Sixceo of unilver had months to put his ship in order because takeovers to debate that kraft cannot come back for six months. s defenses were not formidable, such as low Stock Ownership by management. Credibility may take a hit Going Forward. That is an interesting angle. Rbs shares up to a oneyear high after it said it would scrap its planned sale of its Consumer Banking division. Investors are optimistic today. The rbs is closer to resolving these
Sydney. It is 8 00 a. M. Across emirates. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. I am shery ahn in hong kong. We are seeing a bunch of risk diversion. A look at the gmm goal function. The japanese yen is strengthening. Up 3 10 of 1 , that is pulling down the equity markets in japan as the nikkei is below the 19,000 threshold. One market that is firmly in the positive, indonesian now at a record high. Is losingkorean won ground. Gaining 2 10 of 1 . When it comes to the sovereign debt market in asia, they are rounding the yield one eighth a basis point. Decision coming up with will be discussing that. A consensus of a hold on one and a half percent with our guest, coming up next. Big story hasher been a downgrade that south africa faced. Ast came late in the evening south africa and uae time. That really knocked around the shoulders. South africa you losing its Investment Grade and now ratingy facing another downgrade. It tells the story of what has been happening with the South African