The German Economy boosting 2. 2 . 2. 3 for 2017 , but it came in at 2. 2 . An impact on your dollar, one. 1939 1. 1939. We had a little volatility over the last couple days. Markets we are hoping will grow worldwide, and tend to focus on earnings. Today, we will talk a lot about that. Of 48le bit of zigzagging hours. Yield at 2. 54. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance. , talking with a leader from armstrong, and another guest bolus act oldish expectations. Ceo frank del rio. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. A reportina has claiming officials are reviewing the countrys Foreign Exchange holdings, recommending selling or holding purchases of the u. S. Treasury, might have quoted a wrong source. The state administration of Foreign Exchange said we think a report might have had wrong sources or may have fake news. There was a report that it wasnt clear whether the recommendation was adopted. U. S. President donald trump has agreed that america and north ko
And facebook, and china h and a on a looming cash crunch. The level of debt in china. Yvonne some breaking news right now, south korea inflation in january looking soft, we see a 1 year on year estimate monthtomonth numbers edging lower at 4 10 of 1 , it seems the inflation looking to be getting more soft. Inething we do get to see the Fourth Quarter because we start to see the base effect starting to unwind and the stock currency weakness it is certainly playing into that inflation picture and it is essentially confirms the analysis that that be ok should bok. On hold in the meantime, inflation here looks like it may be picking up pace. That that statement mentioned Economic Growth and Economic Conditions might mean further gradual rate increases and too many that meant Interest Rate hikes coming faster than expected. I want to pull up one of our favorite charts it is wirp, and it shows Interest Rate hikes near almost 100 . Rate hike iner march, and certainly there is a sense where we
The thursday session. This is the spanish stock market, up by 2. 5 today. For today, the ibex was down by 4 over the week. We are going to talk spain in just a moment, so i am going to avoid chatting about it. The euro lower. Sterling down against the dollar. Sovereign bond yields, the 10 year in spain down by 8. 5 basis points. Finalities and cbs, your your final two columns. The spread is widening in light of events in spain. However, it still is pretty much in line with the historical average this week, the vix up by 1 . Hly this is the italy german spread, the difference in yields between the italian and german tenyear, coming down today, down by six basis points, narrowing. The german and the spanish spread, 1. 68 . Aberdeen investments is short italian, short french debt. Events weighing down on european periphery notes, boosting the alert of german bunds. But a money manager at elions globalsaid allians says he will move out of the short on german bunds, should the Catalan Crisi
Public service by americas Cable Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. The American Enterprise institute here in washington, d. C. Posted a Panel Discussion on the impact of efforts to reduce the usa trade deficit. Following their presentations and rebuttals, panelists answered questions from the audience. There we go. Well start again. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, im glad youre with us. Im alex pollock from the r street institute. Its a pleasure for us to welcome you to this timely conference on trade deficits and the Trump Administration. It goes without saying debates about trade, tariffs, other barriers to trade, balance of trade and payments and shifts in foreign exchanges, whether the flow of gold in old days or reserves nominated in fiat currencies now have a long and controversial history in economics and in politics. These debates feature the famous and essential contrast between the interests of producers on one side and
From bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. Im Ramy Inocencio in new york just after 7 00 a am. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 p. M. In hong kong. Im yvonne man. The tech earnings this week will be the big focus with alphabet kicking things off. Ramy i was trying to get ahold of what was moving the markets today but there really wasnt anything but it was earnings. Well get to that in a little bit. Yvonne yeah. It was good it seemed like, in line with expectations at google earnings but just not enough to really convince investors to get too excited about given the run we have seen on the stock already. Lets look at how things are playing out in the asia pacific. It was the Oil Companies that were in focus and kind of offset in tech yesterday. Flat day so far. To australia things could get a little more interesting. Oil being a bump higher overnight with the saudis promising deep cuts to crude exports next month. Shipments capped at 6. 6 Million Barrels a day as we see more analysts say