Controlled by the benetton valley is looking to sell a stake in its company. Then we talk brexit with the former lord mayor of london. Then in an hour, we bring you a conversation on Monetary Policy with the bundesbank board member andreas dombret. Lets check on the data because we have quite a lot going on. This is the picture overall. On the back of what the china gdp brought to the forefront. It is a touch of caution when you look at the Financial Markets. As chinas Economic Data was in line with expectations but at the same time provided few positives for investors. Crude at 50 79 and crude281 at 50. 79. This is monetary conditions. Anything above 100 indicates expansion. This is also an economy that has been widely controlled by the government. You can see that since 2011 we have seen that bump in the beginning of last year and then it is teetering o petering off a touch. Starting on china, Economic Growth remained stable in the thir quarter. Gdp rose 6 from a year earlier. That a
Stocks are headed up to their session highs of a with that said they are still in the red. Right now lets take a look at where they stand. The dow is coming up on the flat line, but the s p 500 is down by about a third of a percent. The s p is down for the second day in a row, and this is its first backtoback losses so far this month. Part of the reason for that is because of the retail data that we did see earlier today. Sales for february falling, and januarys game revised to a decline. We will see how the fed will factor in that with Interest Rates tomorrow as well as the day after. I want to show you the General Health of the s p in its sectors. Four are in the green, six are in the red right now and looking at the positives, Information Technology is of the most, by about a quarter of a percent. Utilities not too far behind. 1. 5 , care is down by which had been preceded by materials. Energy is down by about 1 as well. I also have to talk about what is happening in the pharma worl