More important to traders . The cash trade is one hour away. Thats get your top headlines for you from the bloomberg terminal. Pressing for concessions, stimulus talks in the u. S. At an impasse with the white house and democrats still far apart on major issues. President trump prepares to take unilateral action to extend jobless aid. King of spinoff. Siemens gets a boost from its Software Unit as adjusted earnings climb a prevent 8 for the quarter. We will talk with the cfo shortly about results and plans to list more parts of his business. Plus, we will speak with the bank of england governor, Andrew Bailey, later today, as the u. K. Central bank makes its Rate Decision. What have you got on the boe here . Annmarie as expected, they maintain their benchmark Interest Rate at. 1 . This is what we were expecting. They are keeping their total bond purchases. The target is unchanged at 745 billion pounds. Of course, this is what we were expecting. Now, we have the august minutes coming in
The health of town hall, our partners who are set up in the catholic over here at a special guest zeno math powered for hope everyone has had a chance to visit will be set up in the library showing off their cool math games and activities. I so welcome you to tonight very special masking doubleheader with Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander. This is part of a big homecoming festival and in helping many of you might be returning to her building for the first time after a couple of years. Weve been remodeling this base and for many more to this might be a First Time Ever at townhall, welcome. This is exactly the type of thing we exist to do. Im so pleased to present these fantastic authors do tonight. We love all of our lecture programs, all of the political talks, all of the arts program if we do here but ive especially fascinated by math, mathematical approaches. Im a reformed college math student and so having the chance to present you Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander on a doubleheade do
T overnight in asia, it was a mixed session. Japan was lower, maybe due to strength in the yen it was off by 1 . The hang seng higher by 1 . South korea was higher as well. Europe positive as well, but not by much. Look at crude oil, wti, i just saw 52 53. 71. Higher by a half percent. Brent at 56. 65, nat dgas above bucks. Here. Heres whats going on this morning. Gold prices jumped more than 1. 5 during yesterdays session, bringing the yeartodate gain above 10 . Look at this hour right now. Well show you whats going on. You know, its up. It continues to rise. Looks like its close to a oneyear high. Continues to speak to whats happening. Thats also on the concerns of tenyear treasury, moving back below 2. 30. Gold tends to perform well in a deflationary environment. Which most investors dont understand. I dont understand that, but its supposed to be an inflation hedge. Its the reserve currency in a deflating world. I think the big story is oil. Oil saved the s p over the last couple of
There you are. We have the bond yields declining. Low rates. Come and securities the fed is concerned about a misinterpretation. The unemployment rate. And european equities were coming off of a low. London is up and we are coming off of the lows. The dax is lower. The opening. No changes expected there. Again, the overall context of what is happening. The g20 begins and exports fall. That is another facet. You see the manufacturing drop and a conversation this morning says to stop getting so upset about the slowdown in germany. And it will pass, turning to some trajectory of normal. You had the s p 500 down. That did not work on my futures board. Up by 1. 5 yesterday. The market is bipolar. I know one or two people like that. Can the roses stay sweet . Keep anme rose a aunt eye on that. Now, they are flying in tandem with that announcement. The reason i put this up here is because they said Foreign Exchange is going to hit the terms oft 1 2 , in thirdquarter results. Thank you fever i
Stocks fall after earnings come up short across the board at bigname Companies Like microsoft. An acquisition that will allow it to slash its u. S. Taxes. We will talk to the comics ceo. A Super Bowl Ad will cost you 4. 5 million for 30 seconds. We will find out what it is really worth. Well be speaking to a marketing chief who is a company with a big with big commercials in the big game. But into a chilly day on market makers. Im stephanie ruhle. Im alex field, in for eric alix steel in for eric. We have breaking news on the economy. Consumer confidence for the number for the month of january. Michael mckee is here with the deal to break it down. Heres the question for the economy, does the consumer overcome week business spending . Consumer confidence 102 point nine. This is the highest number since 2007. The figures out earlier this month for the highest since 2007. You can see the impact of oil prices. People are feeling better. If youre talking about new home sales maybe a transla