A slight amount less than 1 . Yields up by one basis point. Sterling here, weaker you take retail sales, lower on the day. He wants a little risk off bid. Gold, the to look at one to watch. David its time now for the northern morning brief. Outeds claims will be 8 30 this morning eastern time. 9 30, eu leaders will meet in brussels and discussed illegal immigration and taxing digital companies. President trump will injured interview janet yellen, on whether she gets another term. If this resonates i was thinking the same thing. It would seem like, what why do want this job . [laughter] rates . Ou like low do you like deregulation . [laughter] are so your most recent speech, i heard you dont. [laughter] i think it reps up from there. What do you mean, most recent speech . Like, forget it, im out. Heading to spend for the latest, the president the government has announced they moving forward the process of this suspending the government, after the president refused to drop his claims. Jo
Start to gain a bit of momentum once again, going into earnings season. There is some them is an serenely some optimism seemingly surrounding earnings for the major averages, so that is something to note. The nasdaq is on a six and winning streak, but it is the odd man out here in retaining the record. It has not gotten to that level. And there is an interesting note out from bank of America Merrill lynch, who is not very optimistic on the s p this year, talking about income inequality, pointing out more hours are needed now to buy one unit of the s p 500, 110 hours, in fact. So that is at a record high here. That is less attainable for particularly low income workers to get to that kind of lone where they can invest in the stock market. Interesting observation here. That is also one reason why we need to clamp down on that level of inequality and might be more aggressive next year. At thealso looking nasdaq, which is lagging the other industries. It is down, not by much, but a few ten
Start to gain a bit of momentum once again, going into earnings season. There is some them is an serenely some optimism seemingly surrounding earnings for the major averages, so that is something to note. The nasdaq is on a six and winning streak, but it is the odd man out here in retaining the record. It has not gotten to that level. And there is an interesting note out from bank of America Merrill lynch, who is not very optimistic on the s p this year, talking about income inequality, pointing out more hours are needed now to buy one unit of the s p 500, 110 hours, in fact. So that is at a record high here. That is less attainable for particularly low income workers to get to that kind of lone where they can invest in the stock market. Interesting observation here. That is also one reason why we need to clamp down on that level of inequality and might be more aggressive next year. At thealso looking nasdaq, which is lagging the other industries. It is down, not by much, but a few ten
Start to gain a bit of momentum once again, going into earnings season. There is some them is an serenely some optimism seemingly surrounding earnings for the major averages, so that is something to note. The nasdaq is on a six and winning streak, but it is the odd man out here in retaining the record. It has not gotten to that level. And there is an interesting note out from bank of America Merrill lynch, who is not very optimistic on the s p this year, talking about income inequality, pointing out more hours are needed now to buy one unit of the s p 500, 110 hours, in fact. So that is at a record high here. That is less attainable for particularly low income workers to get to that kind of lone where they can invest in the stock market. Interesting observation here. That is also one reason why we need to clamp down on that level of inequality and might be more aggressive next year. At thealso looking nasdaq, which is lagging the other industries. It is down, not by much, but a few ten
Welcome to the program, this is countdown. We have numbers coming through from the German Chemicals giant. They toldthrough we have numbers coming through that came through at 1. 9 billion euros, beating the estimate for the First Quarter. Going into these numbers, we could see volume putting pressure on cost and the product mix. We are looking out for anything they say on the ability to cut cost, also there are emerging market dynamics, as expectations for growth have been on the wane, and we are getting various comments coming through. The forecast is based on the average oil price of 40 a barrel, which is interesting. Trading a little above that. The items are slightly below 2015. Their Sales Numbers are coming in at 14. 2 billion, and actually actually a touch below the estimates of 50. 1 billion. They see that in 2016, they see considerable sales decline. That said, they confirmed that outlook. Interesting comments coming through for the future of this year, considerable sales dec