Some of the optimism when it trade, s pe tone on futures back down after the cash trade yesterday. Markets are optimistic about the situation in italy, you can see bid, nowian btps are down to 1. 21, less than 200 basis points above boones. The dollarer against as the greenback falls. Italy thatews out of the Fivestar Party has halted Coalition Talks unless the democrats agreed to keep Giuseppe Conte on as Prime Minister. They previously pushed back against that, especially the leader of the Democratic Party, for hisis supporters Parliamentary Group had any say, they will have to concede, because they will want to say. We will continue to cover the story in italy. Coming up, we will speak to nigel wilson, the ceo. You can catch that interview at 11 30 a. M. London time. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with Viviana Hurtado standing by in new york. Talking, but only if the u. S. Lift sanctions first. Thats according to hassan rouhani, following President Trump signaling he woul
As you mentioned, it is becoming a little more inflationary for the boj. It will only get stronger. The u. S. ,ets without expanding gains. Hong kong fighting back in the final day leading up to the new year Lunar New Year holiday. It is the biggest threeday gain since october 2015. Remember the hong kong and china had the losses last week. For now lets get to the first word news with haidi lun. Florida now say 17 people were killed in a school shooting. State Authorities Say the suspected gunman has been arrested. He is said to be 19 years old and a former student at the school. A catastrophic day. President trump offered federal assistance to the state and offered his condolences to the victims families. Magazines,ountless multiple magazines. At this point we believe he had one ar 15 rifle. I do not know if he had a second one. Haidi President Trump told he supports . 25 per gallon in federal gas and diesel taxes to help fund in proven in roads, bridges and public works. The democrat
Daybreak asia. It is just after 8 00 a. M. In hong kong. Betty we are watching several developments that are going to happen this morning as you had mentioned a few moments ago the appearancend at the prosecutors office. Also the australian jobs numbers at the bottom of the hour. We will see how those two events move the market in asia. Yvonne that ever volatile aussie job number could be interesting. Givingd be choppy here just the mixed signals we have seen in the labor market. We did the unemployment pickup a little bit the previous month. We will see how things go in the bottom of the hour. Lets take a look at the market open in tokyo and seoul. Looking atnt we are 10,000 jobs. It is an allimportant number. Horribly hard to get. Comes out and about nine minutes. Were looking at a higher start in japan 30 minutes back. That has been paired back. Early gains. Have a look at the top three and bottom three. When you look at iron ore demand and you look at world steel production. The ma
Takes a key iraqi city. We tell you what a victory means for the militants after the u. S. Kills a Senior Leader in syria. Mark countdown hello, welcome to countdown hello, and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. Manus and i am manus cranny. Anna a South African finance minister, in just over an hours time. Manus lets get straight to the markets now and bring you up to speed with everything that has happened overnight. Joining us from hong kong for a look at the asian markets yvonne, we have these chinese property prices. Run us through these details. Yvonne there were actually some more signs of recovery that we saw in the chinese Property Market, the second straight month of recovery, and we are seeing a lot of this in terms of the stocks, asian stocks in general really a mixed picture. We did see a little bit of a selloff starting in the morning but now slowly seeing some gains, but again, the chinese property prices looking slightly better. Fewer saw home prices decline. It was
Bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im francine lacqua. The endgame is looming for greece. The Prime Minister is refusing to back down from campaign pledges to end austerity. A deal with european creditors for bailout funds also remains elusive. Toms neck rolls joins us now from berlin. What is now greeces biggest barrier . Hans there appears to be an emerging consensus that part of the problem is that syriza thinks they have a mandate to fight this austerity that they say is beginning imposed on them. You heard the maltese finance minister clarify and crystallized this point. Here is a quote from him. The mandate that the greek government has got, that is the stumbling block. That is why some are asking whether there should be a referendum. If you think it is the mandate that is the problem, there is a solution. That is to have a referendum. You heard hints about that in germany last week, mr. Schaeuble indicating that he could support that. You have sigmar gabriel, the vice c