Sara eisen happy monday. Happy monday to you the Global Market picture pointing higher off the back of a nice end to the week on friday we saw about 0. 5 of gains for the dow and s p, on. 4 for the nasdaq, meaning the nasdaq ended just negative for the week the dow and s p gained 0. 4 for the week and financials the best up today up 35 for the dow, the nasdaq is up 4, the s p up 3 tenyear treasury, we saw a riskon move, closer to 2. 4 again, 2. 37 , but in general, not much happening there last week on the yield front. Bitcoin futures going live last night and cryptocurrencies took another leg higher. Well have more on the latest move coming up, but as you can see, the latest price, 17,600, up 13 on the cboe exchange. They started at 6 00 p. M. Last night. There were a few outages, but ultimately, the price remained well supported with this liquidity event which is a positive, at least in the short term. It will be interesting to see how this goes. Then weve got the cme futures launchi
Says the era of paying big sums to the eu is coming to an end. Good morning, everyone. Its thursday. We got a lot going on today. Glad youre with us. We got a jam packed hour for you, culminating later on in the day with the interview that geoff c Geoff Cutmore has with Vladimir Putin. Markets are trading modestly higher. The ftse 100 up 0. 1 . Benefiting from the weakness of the pound in the triggers of the article 50. Xetra dax up 0. 21. Cac 40 higher to the tune of 0. 1 . A fairly quiet session. Lets look at some sectors driving us higher today. What were seeing is that oil and gas is leading, when it comes to the sectors, because were seeing another day of increases for the oil price. The third day in a row. Financial services, Construction Material doing better. On the down side, autos, real estate, and telecoms slightly underperforming. Lets get back to our top story. Theresa may is set for another battle in parliament, this time to push through her great repeal bill. A piece of
forecasts but flagging that uncertainty around u.s. chip restrictions on china could certainly be a problem we re told the situation is very fluid. it s highly complex several countries are involved it s not just between the dutch and the americans. it involves all the european countries, it involves asian countries. it s a complex situation. it s also an 11-month high with easyjet saying they expect to beat market expectations in 2023. we re going to get son info data coming out of the german markets in a while, in a moment or two, but before that, let s get into the market picture and see how things are going particularly the european markets that have been interesting of late with the aspects of economic recessions still following the market and dogging the market quite extensively. the european markets fractionally lower this wednesday morning. this follows on from the loss from the previous session and data out of the eurozone yesterday did point to positively, parti