Ue of green, mirroring what is happening in the u. S. Without the record. July inest gains sense the stoxx 600. Final estimate for november, headline 1. 5. It has been overtaken by last weeks ecb meeting when the projection for inflation for 2020 of 1. 7 causing many to question draghis ability to maintain that inflation target but inflation, same as the earlier estimate. About economic surprise. This is the economic surprise index from citigroup and for europe. Fascinating chart. The u. S. Fell away through june and went negative showing the data missing estimates on average and now it is boring and both both estimates are roughly around 72. 2. Economic surprises in both the u. S. And the eu marrow in each other mirroring each other. The deal cementing brazil at the heart of the National Growth strategy for the coming years. 90 minutes into the session in the u. S. How is it looking over there . Julie seeing strength as the per the passage of the tax bill gets closer and a Corporate T
Lets get you up to speed on these markets. European stocks. The dollar has dipped. It has transferred to a mild complexion of a dying day this thursday morning in europe. European equity markets are the lead protagonists. Pessimist guide on bloomberg for 2018 is about technology, facebook and disinformation. You can still make money as bitcoin drops. The bloomberg dollar index down. The bloomberg dollar index is looking at a fairly tortured year. Do you buy that story that it is all about adjustments . Im not so sure. Yields drop. Were down to a threeweek low. You are looking at the bloomberg dollar index. The worst year since we started collecting data in 2004. Copper is rising to a fairly big level. Fouryear high. China has halted production. We know that. Youre looking at the eighth straight quarter of gains. You could see copper trade up to 10,000. U. B. S. A little more sedate. The swriss known for their sedate approach. It has outperformed pretty much every other commodity this y
It strengthening after the bank of japan seems to be pairing some of the bonds. Asian equities see a little bit of movement on dollar yen. For also looking at a stock 600. 600. Oxx eurodollar is at 1. 1936. Coming up, we talk Central Banks. With ouriscuss it guests from blackrock. We also have an exclusive conversation with ignacio gallant. Ignore this. This is something from a couple weeks ago. Lets get straight to the first world news. North korea has said it will send athletes and a delegation to the winterland picks and south korea next month and wants to resolve issues on the divided peninsula. Delegates from saul said that south korea wants both nations to march together at the games. The two sides held talks in a village in the joint security area of the heavily fortified border. U. S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has like raise the likelihood Donald Trumps legal team that his office will seek an interview with the president. According to people familiar with the talks, miller
Be most closely watched. What will the figure mean for the fed . Index move because it was pentup stability for 18 months . Good morning, everyone and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. That. Im Francine Lacqua in zurich. The this the we will have plenty more. First, lets get straight to anna edwards. Good morning, anna. Oskipping back in the equity you have markets for us. Francine. Morning, Market Reaction 2016 after the first rate hike in december Italian Economic growth, that we 2015 and the fed skipped in need to get to because we have march and they also took a rate the Italian Economy growing at 0. 3 in the fourth quarter, which is below the estimate of move out of the forecast as 0. 4 . Well, so really, they signaled year on year we get a growth they were reacting strongly to rate of 1. 6 . The markets. Again, a little bit shy of the estimate. So, the Italian Economic growth story is slowing ahead of the election, which could be an to assimilate good news slowly and interesting
Santoli. Carl has the morning off. We begin with our coverage of Hurricane Harvey, which continues to wreak havoc on texas and louisiana. The houston area alone receiving 20 inches of rain already with more to come the president is set to travel to texas tomorrow. We have Team Coverage for you. Jackie deangelis is live in Corpus Christi, angie lasman monitoring the storm track at hq jackie, over to you first for an update. Reporter hi, there, sara it appears, at least for the moment, that the weather has calmed here and some of the dust is settling, but now there are a lot of questions with houston under water how Corpus Christi is going to get back on its feet, get power restored, get the plumbing going again some of these coastal towns were really hard hit over the weekend. We were in rockport. We spoke to some folks who were speaking to the solidarity of the texans and praying for those in houston, but we spoke to some who said we need help and we need it now. I dont think so. This