Left in asias once a dominant commodities trade off. Kong markets are getting set to come back online after the Lunar New Year long weekend. Chinese markets are still away until thursday. We take a look at what is going on in the hong kong stock exchange. In terms of a handover, not much of one after that stellar performance by asia shares on a monday driven largely by Japanese Equities that had their second best day of the year. We saw a little bit of a failure to extend those gains in the european session. We are also seeing u. S. Futures trading down as well. Lets take a look at where we are moving in terms of markets. A big week when it comes to markets. It over to sophie for a look at how things are going. Ie as you pointed out, u. S. Futures are declining. Taiwan and a vietnam also closed for the extended holiday. The nikkei and topics snap a topix snap amb threeday climb. Seoul, and for decline. In kuala lumpur, stocks are sliding after a fiveday bend. We will see whether or not
On the revenue side, it was a very small miss. It came in at 5. 93 billion, the estimate was for 5. 94 billion. Adjusted earnings per share 1. 54 again. Tom that is a lot of pizza. That is a lot of pizza at 5 00 p. M. Brendan i will show you the two numbers you need to know. Highspeed data net addition 172,000. Vonnie the estimate was for 98,000, so that is actually a beat. Brendan yep. Vonnie looking for the call to develop what management is thinking about, or charter and the measure. Tom there it is on time warner cable. We will get you started and go to the fed. First, our top headlines with vonnie quinn. Vonnie if that is dropping hints there is almost enough improvement in the job market to start raising Interest Rates. Policymakers arcs rising satisfaction with progress toward full employment. They say they need to see some additional gains before the first rate hikes since 2006. Economists surveyed by bloomberg expect to raise rates by september. The first big break in the sear
Find out. It understood mrs mabel propose a two year transitional deal post brexit, but how much is not going to cost uk taxpayer . And the elephant in the room. What is the latest cover of Time Magazine telling us about the future of the democrats . Welcome, im catty quay in washington. Christian fraser is in florence, italy. But we start in mexico city, where more than 48 hours after a massive earthquake, rescue workers still hope to find survivors under the rubble. They got 50 people out alive yesterday. Scenes are all on volunteering tirelessly to help the effort are remarkable. Scenes of ordinary people volunteering. They have been trying to get you iiz Year Old Girl friday now, and the nation is transfixed by her fate. 112 Year Old Girl. Volu nteers volunteers hang on to moments of hope, but in all the confusion, none really know what the ambulances carrying away. Any sign of life in the rubble, the call goes out for doctors and soldiers. The focal point now is the school where c
There is t minus one year and 11 months to hash out a deal. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua. We are joined by the head of all the assets. We will be speaking to Aberdeen Asset managements martin gilbert. If you have any questions and are a bloomberg customers, just hit tv. We can ask the guests a question on your behalf. This is the eurozone data and eurozone manufacturing pmi, coming in at 56. 7, a touch below what economists were expecting. Anything below 50 indicates an expansion and it is a touch above what we had the previous month. This is for april, for the euro area. We are waiting for the breakdown to give us the strength and weaknesses of each country. This is the picture for the markets and i would point to global stocks overall rallying. European stocks, gaining 0. 2 , heading for fresh highs. Investors are focusing on stronger corporate earnings. The yen, extending losses. A second. T to the and first, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news.
And alongside mark barton in london. We are discussing the horrific attack in manchester. Mark at least 22 people were killed in this suicide bombing at a pop concert filled with children. 59 others have been injured in the attack carried out by one man who died after, detonating an explosive device. The blast happened at 10 35 p. M. Police are treating it as a terrorist attack and eyewitness accounts described shrapnel wounds consistent with a nail bomb. It is the worst attack on british soil since the london bombings in 2005. This comes two months after a lone assailant left five people dead outside the houses of parliament. Children were among the victims. The assault does come during the middle of a general Election Campaign. The parties say they will suspend activities. Right now, Prime Minister may is chairing ameeting of the governments emergency committee, which brings together ministers and security officials. We have heard some comments from various dignitaries abroad, Angela