, sitting on their hands ahead of the announcement from the fomc in just under three hours time. Here is what is happening across your markets. Declines in belgium, spain, portugal, and sweden. The dollar off record highs. You look at the bloomberg dollar. Up against the dollar today. Those are the Government Bond yields. Down today. Go is a wonderful function. A lot of corporate stories to tell you about, shares up i40 percent today. By 40 today. Preparing to split its medium marked away from the cash and res up by 4 ood sto today. The big story we were talking about today, sending shares of actually on by 4 today. The lower. Shares earlier sinking a bit lower but still 10 lower over the day. J j abandoning talks for the 21 billion swiss drugmaker because the two sides couldnt agree on terms. I want to focus on some data out of the u. K. Today. Employment data, fascinating data, employment falling for the first time in a year. The labor markets showing some signs of weakening as the n
Health and human services. More announcements today. Lets look at where European Equity fund trading now, under 30 minutes to be close at a very different picture from yesterday because we have been seeing a italian banks rebounding, pulling up the ftse and giving lift to european stocks overall. European stocks are still hovering near the lowest level in more than a week. A little bit of thin trading ahead of this referendum and the head of the opec meeting later this week. , italyse equity space ftse makes up 1. 9 , the cap 40 in france at 9 10 of 1 and greece up more than 1 , the euro stock of empty weakness in the ftse in the u. K. , the ftse 100 down some 6 10 of 1 . The u. K. , starting at 7 10 of 1 . We saw this brought below 124 earlier. We will break down the moves later. 6. 20uro unchanged, one of 106. 20. The 10 year yield in italy down 10 basis points. Yields are coming down elsewhere in europe. And how the 600 sector breaks down, overall, the benchmark of some 1 10 of a pe
Surveillance. We are just getting some figures. This is quite telling. This gives us the mood of german confidence. Withseems to be in line what economists were telling us. The volkswagen scandal has not impacted germany as bad as we were expecting. A lot of the shift might be on the fed later on this week. We saw the index go up a little bit. The overall headline number is better than expected. Maybe that could give hope that the ecb is getting through to the economy in europe. We do have the fed later this week. Its not expected to do anything. That is what we are hoping for as well. Draghi, theseis a businessmen in germany are seeing. Francine european leaders are battling over how to handle refugees. Vonnie Angela Merkel and other leaders managed to come up with shortterm fixes. One of them is Emergency Shelter for 100,000 refugees. The western elkins have been swamped with refugees. The European Union will start falling apart if there is not a solution. Opposition party will have
Meet the Master Builder of the bronx brewery. All that and more over the next half hour, but first lets get headlines from carol massar. The big story at this hour alibaba seeking to raise 21. 1 billion in what could be the largest ipo ever in the u. S. They plan to sell 320 million american shares for 60 to 66 a piece. At the high end of that range, that means the offering would give the company a market value of 162 billion. The company that supplies Image Processing chips for gopro cameras shares rallied more than 3 . The lastest stocks forecast topped analyst estimates. The stock of californiabased company has grown sixfold since it went public in october of 2012. The u. S. Jobs report for august missed estimates. The economy added 142,000 jobs which is the smallest gain of the year and comes after an increase of 212,000 jobs in the month of july. The Unemployment Rate falling to 6. 1 but economists say that is because more people left of the workforce. Back to you. Thank you. We w
If youre going to get into Goldman Sachs or bloomberg, the local corner store, you have to work very hard. Is it time up for tesco . They may close their worst quarter in a decade. Terminal two at heathrow takes off. Heathrow claims they have learned lessons from terminal five. We are live at the airport. Hello welcome to countdown. To therm welcome program. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london. Bloomberg reporters are standing by ready to deliver the stories to drive your day. Is in berlin. Ryan chilcote tracking tesco. Olivia sterns has the best gig. She is live for the maiden flight of heathrows new terminal. First on bloomberg, live from heathrow terminal two opening, we will speak with the newly appointed airport ceo in the next hour. English celebrity chef opening his first Airport Restaurant and its also in terminal two. Catch that interview in on the move. Hooton has been excluded but his presence will be felt. , notnichols is in brussels berlin. He has more for us on this story.