We see the pboc once again holding steady, keeping that yuan at a steady level. Yuanconomists saying, the can rise, it can fall, and we will combat both moves should we need to. The dax up 0. 5 . Big vote on wednesday. Angela merkel trying to rearrange her schedule to get this vote through, talking potential debt relief for greece. Trying to woo the imf to get on board with the third bailout being offered to greece. That third payment comes on august 20. We are higher across the board looking at the eurozone when it comes to equities. The euro is down against the dollar. Weve got Interesting Data coming out of the u. S. Later today. We got manufacturing, inflation, we also get fed president william, voting member, speaking on his view of whether has what happened in asia changed the Federal Reserve . Still about 5050 think we will get the goahead in september. Euro still slightly lower against the dollar. Lets have a little look at how the Chinese Renminbi is doing. Stability back on c
This. Big music lovers to classical work a strict traditions in a tradition setting. Rose on do. You see city. Lets get all the day sports news. In doha for us. Thank you so much julie well game one of the world series gets under way in just a few hours time the l. A. Dodgers hosting the Houston Astros this is houstons first appearance in a world series since two thousand and five on vacation they were swept by the Chicago White sox for nothing the dodgers are the slight favorites but this is the first time theyve reached the world seriousness nine hundred ninety eight. Now baseball may have its home in the u. S. But its also flourishing outside its heartland the netherlands are twenty two time european champions and two finishes just behind the traditional powers at the world baseball classic suggests that the dutch game is on the rise poorest reports from the netherlands. Most always in baseball maybe on the world series but in this small town there amsterdam the focus is firmly on t
We have plenty more from the u. K. And the conservative party. And, todays nonfarm payroll figure, a rosy picture of the u. S. Economy . Good morning. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in paris. We have full coverage of the french president ial election. Mark barton is in london. Im looking forward to the conversation with Andreas Dombret. You have our market check, mark. Mark i do. Check out whats happening to european stocks. Big day ahead. The jobs report in the u. S. , the French Election on sunday. Lets have a look at the ftse. Lets have a look at the european benchmark, even better. Highest level since august 2015 yesterday. The big move seems to be continuing in the commodities market. The u. S. 10year is unchanged. Money moving into the yen. It is a riskaverse day today. Oil, lowest level since the backend of last year. The movement down and commodities. Down in commodities continues. Lets get the latest bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra in
Web. That was referring to Chuck Schumer. We bring you all of this live as it begins. U. S. Trading session, julie hyman is here with the latest. Julie the rally continuing into its second day. We tend to see a flip on the first week of trading on the new year from what we saw last week of the last year. We could see an up week this week of the last if the last five years are any indication. Rally, buta runaway we are seeing gains. I want to talk about auto sales this morning for the united states. They were largely better than estimated. Gm sales, more than double what analysts are estimating. For reporting an unexpected gain in sales of 10 . Fiat, although its sales fell 10 , analysts were predicting a steeper decline. All of them better. Fiat still trading lower. Gm and ford a gain of more than 3 here. It looks like we could surpass last years hurt for annual sales, up 17. 5 million vehicles. Been an interesting phenomenon of People Holding on to their cars longer. This is a monthly
The Heritage Foundation hosted a Panel Discussion recently on the current status and future of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Analysts critical of the agreements current span standing offer their recommendations for what the Trump Administration should do to encourage its enforcement and ensure its intended purpose of preventing iran from obtaining Nuclear Weapons. This is just under 90 minutes. Why is it so quiet . Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and are douglas and Sarah Allison auditorium. We welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website on this occasion. For those in house, we asked that our mobile devices have been silenced, turned off as we prepared to begin and for those watching online, you are welcome to send questions or comments by emailing speaker heritage. Org and of course we will post the program on the heritage home page following todays presentation as well. Leaving our discussion is jim phillips who is Senior Research fellow for middle Eastern