A legal case for failing to crack down on fiat over the emissions scandal sending shares in the carmaker lower. Ubisoft shares sink as the french video gamemaker trims its midterms sales guidance, despite playing down its reliance on new launches, saying it can boost profitability from older games. Good morning, everyone. Lets kick things off with our top story. President trump asked former fbi director james comey in february to end the agencys investigation into former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, thats according to a report by the New York Times. Nbc news has confirmed that comey wrote a twotaj mpage mem detailing the conversation immediately following the meeting. The white house denies the version of events saying the president never asked mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation. Nbcs blayne alexander has the story from the white house. Reporter tonight more damage control for the white house, now denying new reports that President Trump urged former fbi dire
The departure will be hard for them. Best parts are fantasy. We are 29 minutes away from the start of the trading day in hong kong and china. Risk appetiteore out there, if you will. We have kuala lumpur studying their trading day. Starting their trading day. What we have is people feeling like their glass is half full. Dave we certainly need days like that. Jumpinessll of this and nervousness comes down to what has been happening in the markets. Bloomberg dollar is resuming its gains. Massive move overnight. That and the u. S. Dollar. We are seeing some of these and the aussie dollar. Have a look at sterling. Interesting note out of goldman. The rally that we saw and we have pulled back from those levels at 124. It is a good entry point to shorting the currency. Good time to get back in. Have a look at equity markets opening at the moment. Taiwan, singapore where i am and malaysia. Any indication, japan and australia, mixed picture. Marketsy, these three do need a few minutes. 3000 on
Billionaire investor george soros brands trump a wouldbe dictator, who is going to fail, and warns markets will reverse one he takes office. Its too early to taper. Thats the message from ecb executive board member Benoit Coeure, who tells cnbc exclusively the Central Banks policy is still working. Too early to have that discussion on when it ends, and even when we taper. That discussion has not started yet, because inflation is not firm enough, sustainable enough. That will come that will come later. Theresa may meets top wall street bankers as a slew of lenders unveil plans to move jobs out of london. But the uk Prime Minister tells cnbc the country is open for business postbrexit. Was were doing is setting up clearly for people what the position will be. Im optimistic, i expect to negotiate a good deal. But we wont sip up to a bad dea deal. The day has come. Its january 20th. We are less than eight hours away until donald trump takes the oath of office at the inauguration. The final
And itching to raise rates for a while. I do not think there is going to be a hike on march 15, but i could understand why the odds climbed. Matt big changes at the Worlds Largest hedge fund. Bridgewater associates. Ray dalio is stepping down. A lot of news coming out of bridgewater from ray dalio. I would lead with John Rubenstein leaving as the cochief executive officer. And aw, snap snapchats Parent Company begins trading, publicly. Can it live up to the height to the height hype . It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Matt hello and welcome. I am matt miller in berlin. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important business reviews and analysis from business Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets take a day by day look at the top headlines starting with monday when a proposed 12 billion Exchange Merger teetered on the brink of failure. 30 billionbanks attempt to acquire the bank a lot of people are saying politics will ultimately kill this deal, but it
And itching to raise rates for a while. I do not think there is going to be a hike on march 15, but i could understand why the odds climbed. Matt big changes at the Worlds Largest hedge fund. Bridgewater associates. Ray dalio is stepping down. A lot of news coming out of bridgewater from ray dalio. I would lead with John Rubenstein leaving as the cochief executive officer. And aw, snap snapchats Parent Company begins trading, publicly. Can it live up to the height to the height hype . It is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Matt hello and welcome. I am matt miller in berlin. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important business reviews and analysis from business Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets take a day by day look at the top headlines starting with monday when a proposed 12 billion Exchange Merger teetered on the brink of failure. 30 billionbanks attempt to acquire the bank a lot of people are saying politics will ultimately kill this deal, but it