Im nejra cehic. Still seeing a little reaction from the fomc meeting. Ive got the stoxx 600. We were seeing stronger gains. It softened a little bit. We are still up 0. 2 . Stronger dollar against most major peers. Bloomberg dollar index up 0. 1 . It did gain more than that in yesterdays session. The 10year yield rising two basis points. We are at 2. 27 . Pretty steady right now. Also keeping an eye on crude oil. We are a little lower in todays session. 50. 52 dollars a barrel. Weve also got breaking news for you. Leaving its key rate unchanged at 0. 5 . Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian the bank of japan kept its monetary stimulus unchanged, but a dovish board member opposes the decision. He argued there was little chance of reaching the banks inflation target and the effects of the current yield curve program werent strong enough. That was an unexpected dissension on a board chosen by Prime Minister shinzo abe. The u. S. Secretary of state has told european allies the
In a moment. Also if the headlines, chinas anbang withdrawing its 14 billion bid for starwood hotels. That means starwood will be owned by marriott. Well talk about what is next. And an interesting story around the mysterious anbang. Tesla shares higher this morning. Elon musk unveiling the new model 3 in los angeles last flight. He says preorders are already red hot. Welcome. Good to be back with you. Lots to do today. We have to start with the markets, all of the viewers and listeners following that jobs number. Not a great number, pretty good number. Stock market doesnt like it. The market is torn. I think the most important thing left out of all the discussion, new york and california raising the minimum wage big. Thats how wages go up now. It just shows you you have to push them up. The supply of labor force is so big, in part because of digitization. Ge talks about it. In part because of the loss of manufacturing. These jobs are not highpaying jobs, unless you have a minimum wage
Record Floyd Mayweather wins the richest fight in boxing history. Developments in yemen to tell you about sources in the port city of aden told al jazeera that arab special forces are there assisting fighters loyal to adou Rabbo Mansour hadi. These are exclusive pictures are what is said to be those Ground Troops. Pro hadi Officials Say fort special forces have landed, calling it a reconnaissance mission. However, saudi arabia has denied that its troops entered aden and now a spokesman for yemens southern Popular Resistance said fighters battling houthis around aden airport are all yemenese and are not arab special forces. I assure you if troops were brought into aden from the sea we would have confirmed it through the Daily Briefing as was the practice during the Operation Resolve storm. All operations are open. The coalition will not spare effort backing the resistance and achieve positive outcomes on the ground. I reiterate today no troop landings were made into yemen. That was a sa
Claimed the u. S. Title. And today, we say farewell to our technical production manager, adrian cotega lets hear it for adrian. Hes an going to head over to n after five years here with us on morning joe and way too early. Hes been at msnbc for 18 years. Why are you leaving us . Its tiring to get up this early, so im going to get up earlier. Isnt that a great excuse. Adrian, good look over there at nbc. Thats going to do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Welcome to morning joe. Hold on. You dont want a painting of new york city. We want an after shot. This is a print that b. J. Has in his bathroom. Lieu how beautiful that sky is. Can you believe that . Its august, but it feels like summer almost over. Feels like september actually. Oh, look at d. C. These are paintings. Can you guys get us good morning everybody. Boy, a lot of news, a lot of news overnight to talk about. I dont even know where to start. Were going to get to a lot of news in a second. We have, though,
And unprecedented security to takes millions of time skaerl revellers unsafe in what could be the coldest on record. This morning broken by the New York Times and published the first unfiltered wide ranging interview by the president who he insisted no fewer than 16 times there was no collusion between his campaign and russia. The president also told the times the russia inquiry made the u. S. , quote, loork very bad. And moments ago detailing how the russia investigation may have gun with a night of heavy drinking at a london bar and the promise of dirt on Hillary Clinton. The newspaper reporting that in may of 2016, George Papadopoulos who was a Foreign Policy adviser to Donald Trump Campaign met with the top australian diplomate. The time sources four current and former american and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the australian role. Trump campaign has tried to dismiss papadopoulos as coffee boy but papadopoulos has since pleaded guilty for lying to the fbi. White house