Trump waving cargo restrictions to help speed aid to the hurricane ravaged puerto rico. He has ordered the jones act waived for shipments to the island. The waiver will be in effect for 10 days and cover all products being shipped to puerto rico. It is a maritime law of acquiring shipments of good between two you a sports to be made with American Flag vessels manned by american cruise. Tokey is warning citizens leave the autonomous kurdish reason region in iraq before it cancels flights in the area. Flights would suspend it follows a similar one by baghdad after they held an independence referendum this week. The European Union will look beyond its impending breakup with britain and how to build a Common Future during the twoday summit that began today. The french president , emmanuel macron, have set out their unions of closer eu integration. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg Worl
2018. Putin spoke on a Panel Moderated by the Senior Executive editor john i am saying we dont know it yet, and the question is asked we decide tonce extend or not to extend, that is when we will decide on the timeframe. Mark president putin says he will wait until the end of the before makingment a decision. A quartet tropical depression that could ground where came will hit the gulf coast late sunday. Dealing another blow to searchers growers. The system is expected to hit hurricane strength. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Paired thisumpton is bloomberg. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia we are 30 minutes on the close of trading here in the u. S. Littlening changed. Joe the question is, what did you miss . President and First Lady Melania Trump are visiting and they are set to make marks and him remarks in a moment now. President trump off his advisers have given a short list. Drums, on whipping awa
They do see fourthquarter dajusted ebit. At 200 ebit monthly users up about 4 . The stock up about 5 in the premarket. David we have earnings at ford, ford out of they are beating on revenue and earnings per share. Gap actually reported by earnings per share of . 39 per share as opposed to a . 32 percent . 32 prediction. They controlled costs beautifully. They had record sales in the pacific in asia. The one thing that fell short, europe. Why . Brexit. Bob shanks will be talking about this in about 20 minutes. Jonathan the ecb, 45 minutes away we get the decision. Is it that beginning of the end of the qe plan . Mario draghi expected to announce a scaling back of the Bond Buying Program and loose Monetary Policy. Running us now from outside the ecb in frankfurt is bloombergs matt miller. What is on the table . Matt the consensus is for a cut in half, from 60 billion euros a month in bond purchases down to 30 billion euros a month, and an extension of the program for nine months until s
There we are back to it. Technical difficulties. The dow is there but the other averages are not quite there. It is peak day. We have some were coming after the close of trading. The s p dream is earnings season about 0. 4 . The transportation average is up about 0. 9 . Outperforming what we are seeing from the major averages due in part to earnings. Increasesand price coupling to help Union Pacific make up for revenue that was lost in storm disruptions and also auto and carloads drop in those. Fell. They climbed in the third quarter, which was more than double an increase for a year earlier. Hey had a bigger gain actually, we will have to toss it back to you, abigail. Abigail thank you. Good stuff. President trump is due to deliver remarks were the Opioid Crisis shortly. Another pressing issue is in focus today, tax reform. House republicans adopted a resolution to cut taxes by the end of the year. This budget we passed in the house today brings us one step closer to historic tax refo
Fields in just a few minutes about exactly what it tells about where they are in the First Quarter and with the rest of the year is going to look like. You the ecb bring a. M. Y decision at 7 45 eastern time. Futures be stable out there. S p 500 futures up marginally. Weve pulled further back from se highs alix time for the morning brief. Weekly initial jobless claims in the wholesale inventory the durable goods and the trade balance from march. The treasury will auction 20 billion in sevenyear notes. Finally, today is the busiest day of firstquarter earnings season with 65 Companies Reporting. Weve got alphabet, amazon and starbucks all reporting. Emma President Trump one people pulling the u. S. Out of nafta immediately. The white house as the president ruled out terminating the Free Trade Agreement after talking with the leaders of mexico and canada. Instead, the three countries will renegotiate. Provide an early test for President Trump the taiwanese will submit to the u. S. As an