,tty this is daybreak asia live from bloombergs u. S. And asia headquarters. I am betty liu, in new york. Yvonne i am yvonne man in hong kong. Breaking news out of south korea on First Quarter final gdp numbers coming in at 1. 1 . For 0. 9 s were hoping estimate. Relatively marginal beats. A year on year figures coming in at 2. 9 . Gdp setting the fastest face pace we have seen since 2013. We will see what the Market Reaction will be. Big story this morning that happened the last couple hours, the stunning announcement from president donald trump. We saw classic donald trump come out. We absolutely did. At that overshadowing any news we are getting so far. In terms of the reaction in the market, it was interesting. Been. S. Markets have getting higher. They ended at the top of the session. You can see the s p higher by 0. 8 . The dow adding on 135 points. The nasdaq composite rising 0. 8 . The doomsday scenario we saw from u. S. Ceos saying it would be bad for the economy has not playe
Landing at 50. 79. Visa reporting a better than expected increase in earnings. Higher payments and the acquisition of visa europe helping results. Trading was choppy after the bell. Visas full year Growth Outlook was light of estimates. Stock lower by a quarter of a percent. Twitter planning job cuts that could be announced this week. The social network could terminate about 300 people. Thats the same percentage it cut last year when cofounder jack dorsey took over as choef. The news comes amidquestions about whats next for twitter. Bill miller was on Halftime Report yesterday. What twitters needs is an activist. I think an activist could make a difference there with respect to being on the board. That kind of thing. You have done a lot in your career. Maybe its time for that. No, not me. Twitter announcing it will change the release time of results to before the market opens on thursday. Originally it was scheduled to report after the bell on thursday. It wants to avoid conflicting wi
The same poll one month ago. Now this after Hillary Clinton took it easy last week, she took a couple days off, only hosted two fundraisers, gave one speech. Trump on the other hand, visited the mexican president , gave major immigration policy speech and holding a veteran event today. Heres the question, is trumps latest moves turning voters in his favor . Want to bring in Senior Trump Campaign adviser a. J. Delgado. Great to have you. Good to be here. Hillary has pulled back and hes taking advantage. She may need to step it up a little bit here. You had a recent New York Times headline that said how do you find Hillary Clinton, i believe the words were, ask the ultrarich. We had trump going to louisiana governor,ing to faith based ministries in detroit, reaching out to the Africanamerican Community while hillary is having fundraisers in the hamptons. Optics are terrible, people are saying who really is with us . Is it donald trump whose platform stands for the little guys, for our ve
Morning in the robbery of Kim Kardashian. We will tell you what the thieves really wanted. Morgan stanley with details. Google gets into the smartphone business. We are expecting a took on big event on smartphones. We have gains across the board in europe this morning. Take a look, the british pound following to a 31year low overnight. Thats driving stocks in london. The other major averages in the euro zone twothirds to 1 higher. In asia overnight also giens to tell you about. Shanghai composite closed. Coming up this morning Fox Business Network Dagen Mcdowell. Jon hilsenrath and fox news correspondent lea gabriel. Nice to see you. Dagen good morning. I hope the fine folks in virginia are being nice and surrounding area. [laughter] dagen i grew up right near there. Maria i know you did. The daughter of the first female president ial candidate is with us. Murray Energy Founder presint and ceo murray is with us and eric trump joining us as well. Lots to talk about so do join us for a b
The early trading most of the major averages are trading higher. The dax is up by better than o. 6 . The cac and ftse both sitting just under 0. 6 higher. North Korean Leader kim jongun has ordered his country to be ready to use its Nuclear Weapons at any time. He told the military to be in preemptive mode attack. The saber rattling follows harsh new sanctions imposed by the u. N. Over north Koreas Nuclear program. Also, new data this morning on where investors are putting their money to work. Nearly 5 billion went to riskier, u. S. Based junk bond funds. Thats making the groups largest inflows on record. Federal prosecutors have now moved to dismiss the indictment of Chesapeake Energy founder aubrey mcclendon, as expected, following his death. Mcclendon died in that fiery onecar crash the day after being indicted. A Law Enforcement source tells cnbc that the justice departments broader investigation into possible collusion in the oil and gas industry is ongoing. Generating buzz this m