As we await clarity from jay powell in the new inflation policy. Ray dalio says fiscal and monetary injections have put the dollar under threat. Johnson revolt, boris reaches out to rebels in his own party to gain support for his plan to override the brexit deal he struck with the eu. Ftse futures are underperforming. Facebook versus the ftc, u. S. Authorities are preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against the social network. Kim kardashian urges her 188 million instagram followers to freeze their facebook accounts. We have breaking news in the form of earnings coming across the ticker. Thespanish giant hosting of 8 billiones euros. Net sales a little more than 8 billion euros. We were expecting a net loss in the first half. Euros in 195 million terms of earnings before interest and taxes. There was a loss there also, 198 Million Euros, but it did have a positive earnings before interest taxes depreciation of 1. 4 9 billion euros. We will bring you any breaking news. Remember yeste
Heard from the bank of england yesterday and whether that will filter through longer term in terms of negative rates. Now overall, the markets are focusing on that. They are focusing on some of the things that we saw this week, which is m a. In. Ks general in europe edging lower it seems to be that a lot of markets are in a holding pattern. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here in london is also leighann gerrans. And oracle seem to be edging closer to eight tiktok deal. They have tentatively agreed to terms with the treasury department. Bytedance is also increasingly confident that plans will win the approval of regulators in beijing. Assuming it happens, a new firm would aim to hold an ipo in about a year. The eus climate chief says rising demand for green bonds creates an opportunity for the bloc. It plans to start selling as much as 225 billion euros of its debt. That amount is almost the same as all of the Green Securities sold globally last year, likely making t
The u. S. And china clash again, this time at the virtual u. N. Meeting. U. S. Futures are flat the moment. This after another volatile session. We had stocks rising. One mega cap rebounding. The s p 500 recovering from an early dip prompted by some comments coming from jay powell. Mnuchin spokery in congress today. The dollar touched a one month high. Look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti is below 40. We are also looking ahead to the asian section. We are suspecting policy changes to come in the november Monetary Policy statement. Large parts of the market expecting the negative rate to take place in the First Quarter of next year. It looks like a modest start to the trading day. Cindy futures are looking positive. Watching the aussie and kiwi dollars. We saw the u. S. Dollar strengthening to the highest in five weeks in the overnight session. Repeating that the u. S. Economy needs more support and has a long road to travel before it will fully recover from the coronavirus fall
Japans ruling party gets set to pick a new leader. The next Prime Ministers have a tough task of leading the nation after the pandemic. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures up. 4 . This of course after tapping the worst week since march. We continue to see the selloff and idiosyncratic news. Softbank changing options Investment Strategy leading to selling picking up any friday session. Not to mention the tech stock reversed gains after china said it opposes a fourth sale of tiktok. We have the nasdaq composite really under pressure in the u. S. Session on friday, down. 6 . Take a look at what oil is doing because we are coming off of its back its worst back to back weeks since april. Nothing on oil prices, tomention concern about opecs production compliance. Wti at the moment at around 37 a barrel, gaining about. 5 . Lets get a quick check of our asia of how asia is setting up. Sophie we are nearing the halfway mark for september and t
Some traction. Right right. Well, look, i think that the charges that leader mccarthy made which basically are saying that Speaker Pelosi just doesnt want to deal actually are in somewhat synch with what Jared Kushner was saying because that maybe there cant be a deal until after the election how about the next three months . We just decide theres been no ppp for september, october, november, i dont know whether thats sacrificing the american working person for the election or maybe someone actually thinks the economy is coming back david, you know that we are hearing persistent stories that because vaccines are all going to be ready its time to start thinking about a fedex which reports tonight, its time to start thinking about a Union Pacific i have on and time to start thinking about pretty much every industrial like caterpillar, deere its happening although lets i mean, vaccines you know, i dont even know how to parse that exactly, jim vaccines being ready when we actually talk to