European markets just opening up. Lets talk to manus cranny. Equity markets are set to bounce. You have rising equity markets around europe. Auto sales a little better than estimated. One thing to bear in mind is emerging markets. You have iraq tensions rising. A small number a small number of troops being brought in. Is there something bigger at play in emerging markets . You see the cpi. Expected to come in around 1. 7 . Youve got two major stocks on the move in the u. K. Sales beating estimates. 4500 new hotels being created. Reuters says pharmaceuticals have hired to brace themselves for the prospect of possibly being the subject of a take being a takeover target. Easyjet has just come back from i have just come back from two weeks away. The whole of europe is on holiday in june. Germany is going to come out a little later. Then followed by the u. S. We are taking you through some of the top u. K. Stocks. Auto sales rose for the ninth consecutive month in a row. 1. 13 new registrat
Mayhem, but tonight he doesnt see the impeachment effort against donald trump as a partisan effort. Another Top Republican going further calling the disturbing scenes the greatest betrayal by a president and the constitution in history. All of this against the backdrop of worry about protests this week, this weekend and into the inauguration next week but theres agreement among republicans, the rightleaning opinion paper the wall street journal and some democrats that another impeachment process hurts not one president but two. The impeachment and senate trial are not in interests of joe bidens and the journal, quote, they would do nothing to quell partisan division into might turn off moderates who voted for mister trump because they want the tomatoes trump era to be over. Joe manchin used similar language with bret baer yesterday. It is ill advised for joe biden to be coming in trying to heal the country and be the president of all the people and we are so divided. That the judicial
Through, that he tonight doesnt see the impeachment effort against President Trump as a partisan effort. Another Top Republican going further, saying this disturbing scene the greatest betrayal by a president to the constitution in history. All of this is set against a backdrop of worry about protests this week, this weekend and into inauguration next week. Yet there is agreement among republicans, the rightleaning opinion page, their wall street journal and some democrats that another impeachment process actually hurts not one president but two. The impeachment, the Subsequent Senate trial not in the interests of president elect joe biden says the journal. They would do nothing to help partisan division and might turn off moderates who voted for mr. Trump because they want this tumultuous trump era to be over. West virginia democratic senator joe manchin used similar language talking with bret baier yesterday. I think there is so illadvised for joe biden to be coming in trying to heal
Comcast and mcdonalds. After the bell we have amgen, at t and yum brands. Screen. Oard futures flat. Tenyear yields flat. Eurodollar flat. Loyal 104 per barrel. Monitor. The existing home sales. Here is the housing boom of the middle part of the last decade. Sales have rolled over again off of the trend line back 20 years ago. Existing home sales just cannot get it going. That is an ugly chart. Now what . Unemployment stalled out. More on that through the next number of days. Here is scarlet fu. Top frontpage story about changing up the guard at ford. The chief operating officer, mark fields, will be named ceo eventually. The announcement may come as soon as may 1. Alan mulally probably stepping down by the end of the year. He is 68 years old. A former executive who turned around ford and kept the company from pursuing a federal bailout. Billiond up on the 23 loan before the financial crisis. A stroke of brilliance. They never had to pay government take government money. The point is,
Senator grassley, we set a member number of occasions we find it there is a use and value to having an independent legal representative in the fisa Court Process in the appropriate circumstances. We would not advocate or recommend having one for all of the procedures that go on there. Many of them like a normal criminal cases are routinely done in an expert databases. They are done usually with a fair degree of asked etienne and efficiency and we think a permanent public advocate might impede that process if it is applied to every single thing that they are. They would also be some constitutional issues facing our public advocate on every single issue. We would propose that it be an amicus appointed by the court when the court feels that they have the need for another event another point of view when its a significant issue involving privacy issues, civil liberty issues that the court would like to have another view on. That would be a good example of a time. Something like both Data C