4. 651 . Taking a look at crude prices and how they are digesting in the middle east. Wti is down. 50 . 85 a barrel. Brent is tame this morning at 89. 75. A check on bitcoin days ahead of the halving. We are down fractionally. 63,352. New data from china overnight. First quarter gdp grew 5. 3 year on year beating the estimate of 4 growth. Export volumes rose 14 from a year ago. Back here at home, United Health is out with Quarterly Results. Bertha coombs is here with more. Everybody is looking at the medical loss ratio from the cyber attack there. The change cyber attack is being looked at or accounted for in two buckets. United Health Revenue coming in at 99. 8 billion. Beating estimates. It is unclear if the adjusted 6. 91 per share is comparable to the consensus number. It includes 25 Cents Per Share impact for business disruption costs from the change cyber attack in february. It excludes the costs of advanced payments and interestfree loans due to the o outage which amounts to 6 b
, and im Francine Lacqua, alongside mark barton. The French Ministry of finance is discussing funding plans to put a stop to Climate Change. Well be speaking exclusively to the french finance minister in about 30 minutes. A little later t, we will be laurent to th mignon. Mark the stoxx 600, the best run since november 1. You look at sterling trading lower against the dollar. It fell last week, falling today as investors and analysts tilde into the agreements that took place on friday analysts delve into the agreements that took place on friday. Anys to be rubberstamped by the European Council this week. We have got the fed, the ecb and boe all unveiling their ate decisions. Only the fed is expected to move on policy, raising rates. Its expected by 25 basis poin ts. Gold is rising today, up by. 1 . Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Reporter french president macron says Donald Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital is dangerous. He hosted the israeli Prime Minis
And amazon tops 1000. Stocks up 50 and on course for a 1 trillion sale tag. 1 trillion in sales. Yvonne a trillion dollar company, yvonne. Speaking of trillions, we saw on interesting reaction in the bond markets. Again, another day where yields the house and Senate Finally passed a tax reform package. Theaps all of this by on rumor in salem the news is affecting not only equities, but also the bond markets as well. Yvonne yes. Callsall of the extreme for yield curves to flatten, it seems like we are pushing back on that now. We are seeing a steepening here as we close 2017, betty. Reaction in the equity markets. Kind of a collective shrug. S p trading flat, and closing unchanged. Same with the nasdaq. The dow down about 30 points. Not setting up for a really recession. Of course we are waiting for the boj. Yvonne we saw a bit of a rally that petered out on wall street. Here is how we are. So on to new asia, zealand. A gross load in the third but a healthier picture than what economist
Anna Saudi Arabias Energy ministers said stockpiles will not be any less close to opecs target when the group meets in june. The secondking for half of 2018 to see where we are in terms of supply and demand, so there is no intent to revisit that. Anna good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. A warm welcome to the program. Aning a little bit in market that is the pressure you get from the asia equity session. Msci asiapacific down by. 1 . The stocks got a boost on top story, going up by. 4 on the s p in the middle of the session, but we are treated have we already seen the big men up on this story . Meeting in japan. No change, essentially, to policy. The big question is about governor kuroda and how long he plans to stay. Be bringing you that in japan. The 10 year yields very much mattof the story, miller. It touched 2. 5 in yesterdays session. We had lots of conversations about what was driving that. When is President Trump going to sign the legislation . A little b
Stocks have rebounded we are 30 minutes away from the end of the session. Heres whats happening to currencies versus the dollar. Sterling down today. Sovereign bond yields are rising for a fourth consecutive day. Mixed bag of commodities. Thought we will look at risk aversion. Global stocks off fresh eyes, market bulls fully in charge. The risk aversion index is a combination of measures across asset classes. It has fallen to a threeyear low. Strategists at Goldman Sachs Asset Management project meaningful risk in 2018 such as monetary tightening, the prospect of a slowdown in Global Growth, they see equity markets climbing to new records. That is risk aversion. Lets talk about the boj leaving policy unchanged today. Retaining its unprecedented monetary stimulus as it waits for a pickup in stubbornly low inflation. Is the 10 year bond yield. The boxes steadily increasing as the boj continues to buy an array of assets including government bonds. That will continue to buy Financial Asset