Europe here. We initially saw quite a negative story coming out of europe. In the United States, maybe some stimulus talks helping propel the story a bit higher. The s p up by over 1 . The euro has come back. It is still negative on the day. We did have a 1. 16 handle. We now have a 1. 17 handle, but we have seen continuing dismal inflation data out of the eurozone. Yesterday was germany. Today it is france. A 0. 6 print. We get the final number friday. Alix totally different from the u. S. , in that we are able to generate some inflation. Christine lagarde with her strongest signal that the ecb will change its goal. She said it may be worth examining a strategy that allows inflation to temporarily rise above the target rate, similar to the feds shift. We need to thoroughly analyze the forces driving inflation dynamics today, and consider whether and how we should adjust our strategy in response. The anchoring of fixed rate expectations might have loosened. The wider discussion today i
Lets get your global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to munich to paris washington to sarasota, florida and new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. There are questions about transparency for china. Rishaad salamat joins us from hong kong. Walk us through some of the latest. Now with63,000 cases the death toll up by 121, but the inconsistency in the numbers has led to a lot of questions. Some of them are not being answered, and that has led to people thinking that this disease is not really going away at the moment. We had some optimism a couple of days ago, but that has receded somewhat. Weve also got bickering between washington and beijing. The u. S. Saying they have been denied that. On a microeconomic level, weve got companies such as Fiat Chrysler halting production in one of its plants in serbia. They cant get enough parts out of china. If you want to buy a barbie doll in the future
That is hurting profits. David they were downing trading but they were expecting to be down in trading. Its all about net Interest Income. It sort of like wells fargo yesterday. More nettually Interest Income than last year that it was below what is expected so they are getting punched a little bit. David we will keep our ought alix we will keep our eyes out especially in that conference call. We are in a tight trading range. The tightest weve been in since nine days over the last week and a half or so. Eurodollar pretty much flat. In the 10of Movement Year as well. Crude up by 8 10 of 1 . I felt like a left and came back and everything was the same. Pretty much steady as she goes. David things will really happen now. Eddie 30 we will get used u. S. Housing starts at 8 30 we will get u. S. Housing starts. Facebook has it second day in congress on his liber proposal before the House Financial Services committee. At 12 30 we will hear from Esther George on the Economic Outlook. After the
Euro stocks have the longest winning streak. Old, flat on the day. The brent spread, could that blowout . There are rumors of a deal extension for more than three months. The morning brief, Goldman Sachs is going to lay out its plan to turn around the performance in its core bond trading unit. We get data for the month of july. At 1 00, the u. S. Treasury will sell 10 year notes. At 1 00, apple will launch a new iphone. That is coming up. The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on north korea as part of an effort to get the nation to stop its quests to develop Nuclear Weapons. Joining us now, marty shanker. The sanctions, but they watered them down. It is significant china and russia went along, but there are implications russia is helping china smuggled goods into north korea. There is no sign the sanctions are effective. Is there anybody who believes these sanctions will stop north korea . No. I dont think anyone is naive enough to think north korea will say we have had