This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Lets have a look at whats been going on. There has been a steeping of the yield curve going on, more flattening taking place. What we have is perhaps an economic slowdown in prospect. Lets have a look at this chart. It goes back to 1986 and it tracks whats going on in the white line into the two to 10 year yield spread. That is indicated by this axis here. Just over 60 basis points between the two of them. The green line is where gdp is. This is inverted. You can the lowest number of growth here, 4 contraction. What happens next is that the yield curve perhaps sees more flattening. We see growth has been improving of late. What happens in the future . We have a strong correlation between the two of them. One of the head scratchers in terms of what we been looking at this year. We had off to christmas break and volatility has been settling going lower, that if we can hold on to the moment in what we are seeing for this rally, we are going to see the asiap
Down to a quarter of a mile. Your walk to work forecast next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Melissa, whats doing on now . Still have some road work. Talking about the inner loop at colesville road. That should be out of the way in next couple of minutes. It was supposed to wrap up around 5 00 a. M. Inner loop at the dulles, still have that disabled vehicle. Overall Prince Georges County looking good. Branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, indian head highway into and out of town is rolling along. Beltway at central avenue, again looking quite good there. Here is our biggest problem of the morning. Bradley boulevard right now shut down at huntington parkway. Both directions. You can do river or wilson or old georgetown. Dont take bradley and hit this problem at huntington. News4s Zachary Kiesch is out on the scene right now. How are we looking . Reporter youre absolutely right, melissa. Im at the intersection of huntington boulevard and huntington parkway and bradley boulevard. Wha
Those blasts sent massive fire balls into the nights sky. The initial blast erupted at a warehouse for Hazardous Materials and triggered other explosions at nearby businesses. Those explosions could be felt miles away. The cause at this point not immediately clear. Lets take a look at some live pictures this morning from tianjin china. You can still see the smoke cloud billowing. We heard from hyundai. Well take more of a look at whats happening with china in a bit. About 4,000 imported vehicles were destroyed by that blast. Heres the big stories today, China Central bank holding a News Conference in beijing overnight arguing theres no basis for continued currency depreciation. Earlier in the day they set the rate below yesterdays close. Well have a live report in a moment. Athens wants to see a vote before a euro zone identifinanc meeting tomorrow. It argued it lacked clarity on the direction of policies. Here in the u. S. A busy day on the data front. We get jobless claims, july reta
Rig count at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time. Our road map begins with a big set back for Prime Minister may. Yesterdays snap election ending in the Hung Parliament. What does it mean for the looming brexit talks . Plus, stock futures are pointing to new records as investors shake off that political turmoil in the uk and back here in washington, d. C. And complete vindication, thats the take away from the president on the testimony by comey but the reality may be a bit murkier. Well talk about that. But first, the uk is the lead. Mays conservative party lost the majority after the election. Resulting in a Hung Parliament meaning no party has the 326 seats that are necessary for an outright majority. May had called for the snap election in the hope of strengthening her hand in brexit talks after her meeting with the queen, the Prime Minister spoke about forming a Coalition Government. What the country needs more than ever is certainty. And having secured the largest number of votes and the grea
1. 4 hang seng was up, and the kospi up in europe, things are relatively flat. Dax is down. And the cac is weaker. Crude oil prices on a tear this morning it is up again with wti trading. Can i say hello to everybody. We havent been all together awhile, kind of nice comfortable pair of loafers im wearing sneakers today. Theyre more comfortable than loafers. I dont feel like you have to do much to look better i can come in. Sneakers and no socks this is like sweatpants, when seinfeld wears sweatpants, youve given up. Let get you to the morning headlines. Heres whats going on in Corporate News peltz fighting for a board seat at prak tore and gamble. Theyll launch a proxy battle. Hear about it within moments my expectation is hear about it coming across the sec with a filing in a moment the move would make p and g the largest to face a proxy contest. Last week they rejected the request to name mr. Pelts a board member he is one of the biggest shareholders, second biggest roughly holding 3