Maria big show this morning, fox business dagen mcdowell, former nfl jack brewer, former ceo of home depot, former ceo of chrysler, bob nardlli in the house. The race in kentucky, dagen, still too close to call. Dagen right, people are going to if matt bevin is declared the loser, current republican governor there against his attorney general, democratic attorney general andy bashear, if hes declared the loser, after, its a referendum on President Trump, no, matt bevin was not liked in the state, again, who is a longtime democratic operative texted me in the middle of the night, just remind people that politics is local, this is a very local issue and we can move on and talk about virginia because, again, both the house and delegates in the state of virginia are now both blue but if you dig in the numbers it wasnt quite the loss for the republicans there that people might expect. Maria all of the key elections held across the country, thats going to make people start talk about what it
Happy president s day if you are joining us from the United States. Good afternoon. Anna edwards, good afternoon. There you go. Stoxx 600 up for a second consecutive day, the highest level since december. It will be a quieter day today because of the president s day holiday. No chart shows a better story, no two day chart shows a better. Tory 143 billion, that was the bid put on the table for unilver from kraft heinz. The shares surged 13 on friday. The biggest gain ever, a record. Or unilver today, shares fell 9 . Kraft heinz walking away. Sixceo of unilver had months to put his ship in order because takeovers to debate that kraft cannot come back for six months. s defenses were not formidable, such as low Stock Ownership by management. Credibility may take a hit Going Forward. That is an interesting angle. Rbs shares up to a oneyear high after it said it would scrap its planned sale of its Consumer Banking division. Investors are optimistic today. The rbs is closer to resolving these
Topix slipping. A little bit of a weakness of feeding through. In terms of the dollar comest ready after a twoday decline. Taking a look at the 10 year treasury yields. Treasuries recovering a little after thursdays decline. Yieldrs yield 10 year down one basis point. Global stocks on course for their best week since january after the feds dovish hike and after the results of the dutch elections. Volatility coming down. Moststoxx 50 dropped the in yesterdays session. Nikkei volatility, dropping to the lowest since 2014. As investors turned their attention to the g20 summit, the bloomberg belly index steady today that heading to the biggest weekly loss since early february. The treasury yields bounced back from the initial slide. This spread between the 10 year treasury yields and the bloomberg dollar index at the widest in four months. Is that a sign that the dollars retreat may have gone too far. What else may have gone too far . Has oil followed to far after breaking below 50 for the
Good evening. The Un Security Council is holding an emergency meeting this friday. Amid repeated reports on seizures in towns across syria, leaving people with nothing to eat. Ban kimoon says that by deliberately starving civilians, both the Syrian Government and rebels are committing war crimes. Jessica is there following developments for us and joins us now. At whose request is that meeting being held for . Unitedr france and the kingdom requested this meeting with the backing of the United States. Essentially to call the worlds attention to a dire situation. Over hundred thousand civilians stuck in besieged towns earlier this week. This is a all up followup to that. We expect to hear about inditions of civilians several towns in syria. Reports from unicef officials that have been able to make it in with aide c onvoys. One official says that at a clinic, unicef officials watched fromyearold roboy die malnutrition right in front of their eyes. Towards rd reap reports that parents have
Of a g20 communique. He welcomes the stock market correction. It was a super bubble. A bubble of a bubble. When you go there and the taxi driver is telling you which stocks you should invest in. He says even a 10yearold could see why the greek bailout was wrong. Telling cnbc that no Political Party could stabilize an economy thats imploding. Its of the upmost necessity and has been for a few years now is to have an Economic Policy which ends this extend and pretend nightmare over the last few years. It is one of the most critical jobs report in recent memory. This could be the number that decide ws whether the fed will lift off or push out its rate hike over the last month. Theyre calling for an increase in 220,000 in nonfarm payrolls versus 215,000 in july. August tends to quirky. The jobs number is often inaccurate as many people are on vacation when the government conducts its household and business survey. Lets take a look at u. S. Futures. Stocks failed to hold on to gains. The na