Stepping down after arguments over strategy, the bank prepares its search for his successor. Morning, under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Equity markets under pressure. The futures picture shows relief. Ftse futures up 0. 4 . U. S. Futures point to the upside, up 0. 8 . Global stocks up 12 in november, the biggest monthly gain on record. Lets not forget that will me think about the losses yesterday and the rally he will maybe see today. Greens what we see now, a picture and it comes to the asian stock markets. Data from to take asia whether chinese or korean on the factory side. Be taking aems to turn for the better. In china a decade high for chinese manufacturing. Up on thed enthusiasm, and commodities in focus. Oil prices moving to the downside for a third day. No deal yet on opec and opecplus, and their plans for january. That will be a focus on thursday. Lets get a first word news of eight. Laura president elect joe biden has chosen janet yellen as his treasury
Shrinks, but it doesnt set the u. K. Up for a good spot Going Forward. We are seeing the relationship between fiscal and Monetary Policy really evolve the u. K. We will break that down over the next few hours. You are seeing bond markets bid across the board, as we are koff develop. We want to kick it off with Michael Mckee. Theld central bank mike,entral banks if i say mmt, am i wrong . Anyway. Yeah, [laughter] its confusing, though, what is going on with the economic philosophy called mmt. Yes, it is unlimited cash in unlimited amounts for unlimited periods of time until we get through this. Youre still going to work your tail off today before we get to 4 00 p. M. Lets start in london come over the bank of england is going to finance Government Spending for the time being by lending money directly to the treasury. It is called the ways and means facility, a shortterm credit the last used during great financial crisis. Government and the bank say any borrowing will be repaid by the en
Fires rockets at u. S. Military base its. Tehran says it doesnt want war. Boeing737 jet crashes in a ron shortly after takeoff due to stateat stadia media describes as technical issues. All people on board were killed. Carlos ghosn says nissan used him as a scapegoat to block further integration with renault. He speaks out in a press Conference Today in beirut. We are also getting german factory orders in the economic data. It does not look good. November factory orders dropped 6. 5 yearoveryear. November manufacturing orders dropped 1. 3 month over month. That we haverders been waiting for here in germany just dont look good. You want to pull that up on your bloomberg, type ego go. Pull down on the german flag. The picture is fairly dire. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Before the factory ders came through, they were bad enough. Now you can see, dax futures are down even more. 1 . More than double the losses that we see on ftse futures. In term
Some have moderated a little. We trade at 68 59. Gold went above 1600 an ounce. We come off the high a ten year yield did get to a 170 breaking a trend line that weve been in since september but now down to two basis points on a 180 handle on that. Looking at dollar yen though that comes off a little bit. Unchanged there on that currency pay. European equities in the red but a reasonably muted move also what were seeing in u. S. Future. One point we saw it drop as much as 1. 7 but we recouped ome of those losses. This morning we begin with the retaliation from iran against the u. S. For the killing of its top general. The nation firing a series of missiles at Iraqi Air Bases Housing u. S. Troops. The escalation coming hours after President Trump says the u. S. Was totally prepared for an attack. Irans foreign minister saying tehrans is retaliation. It adds it isnt looking for war but will defend itself. Also this morning shortly after takeoff a boeing 737 bound for ukraine crashing in
Investigation intopolitical val joe biden. And that he obstructed congre by defying numerous subpoenas for documents and testimony as part of their impeachment i probe. Unittheir opposition, rushing through the impeachment process and using it to rn overtu the results of the 2016 election. President trump has defended his dealings with ukraine and called the investigation a quote witchhunt. Here to discuss this our republican consultant and seniou contd to bulwark tim miller. He is with us. And also ron aldinger who joins us via skype fr washington. Thank you for being here with us. Why just two articles of impeachment for the democrats abuse of porur and obion of congress over President Trumps dealings with ukraine . Why not obstruction of justice in the Mueller Report, there were 10 instances listed. Or bribery that the democrats were exciting even before this began. The democrats made a choice. They couldve reached to n,the shotloaded it up and given the president both girls, as you