Rates waeigh. London, seven 30 a. M. In frankfurt or paris. Lets have a look at where the markets open up. Or not expected to go all that far. Some minutes from yesterday, from last night to factor in the things as we start trading in europe. The fed, policymakers suggesting they will take their time, no stubborn inflation threat looming, and lots of trump related uncertainty. , andl policy uncertainty march seems to be less and less part of the conversation when you look at the probabilities of a rate rise and focusing attention instead in the market on the month of may. Lets look at what is moving around on the gmm. The bigis one of factors that has to be worked through the market. The Asian Session was flat, following u. S. Stocks downward initially, then fleshed out as we went to the session. Japan weaker on the back of the yen strengthening. That was a bit of the fed story coming through there. The korean won, but not a magnitude to be picked up on the gmm function. No Interest Ra
From mercedes and. Shares opened shortly. And mission to moscow. With no sign that the kremlin will change its stance on assad. Matt less than half an hour away from the start of european equities trading. Take a look at futures. Basically green across the board as far as European Markets are concerned. The euro stocks 50 futures up a quarter of a percent. The dax up one third of 1 and the cac is a. It is interesting to see the green arrows there especially if you contrast them with the red arrows we saw in asia overnight and the big risk off trade. The s p is battling. Obviously a big feature on that landscape. Lets get a bloomberg first word update. Sean spicer has apologized for saying adolf hitler did not used chemical weapons. It came as [inaudible] ascer said someone despicable as hitlers did not use chemical weapons. Chinas president spoke to donald trump yesterday urging nuclear about the program. Should settled peacefully to be committed to peace and stability on the korean pa
When mario draghi was hinting at quantitative easing, saying he will revive inflation as fast as possible. He was saying he was not about to make a hasty decision to add more stimulus that the ecb. Yet theyre also saying the expanding bond purchases to Government Debt would face legal hurdles. Once again the voice of concern coming from germany. Bank headthe central in austria saying a steady hand ecbhat you need in terms of policy. That is why we are likely to see it a sickly flat across the board when you are looking at europe. So much data. We get gdp figures. Manufacturing as well. Also the second estimate in terms of the thirdquarter gdp is coming. Bit of a downward revision on the trade deficit likely to happen . Morningata later this with the views on what the biggest economies are set to do. We could see new revisions. Lets dig into some stocks. I want to get into the big movers and shakers. Ing just climbing higher by 7 10 of a percent. A fascinating trend. We heard it from la
There is only one game in town over the next 48 hours. The federal Market Open Committee meeting. Will we have the end of q. E. 3 and how will they signal an increase in Interest Rates whenever that is going to be. Transition from q. E. Ends until the beginning of Interest Rate increases. Lets look at whats happening for euro. Rising for the third day against the dollar. Interest rate expectations are being pushed back in the United States. That benefits the euro. It is up for a third consecutive day against the dollar. It is up by. 10 today. 127. 14. Inally these are the stocks 1. 2714. These are the stocks were watching. It is a busy day for earnings. Earnings beat estimates. Profit missed estimates mainly ecause of legal costs. Lloyds. 9,000 jobs cut. That means various branches will be cut as well. Profit rose. That was a beat but investors obviously choosing to focus on the closedown of the branches and the slashing of jobs as well. U. B. S. Higher. B. P. Higher and european marke
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