This is the second largest market in the world. Obviously when the president of the United States says something, everybody listens. Francine and building bridges. Theresa may prepares for her first meeting with the incoming u. S. President. What will the socalled special relationship look like in 2017 . This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua. With me this morning, hsbcs global chief economist, janet henry, and Stephen Isaacs, head of the investment at alvin capital management. We will speak to one of the city of londons is known economists, roger bootle. That is in half an hour. First to your markets. Chinas offshore yuan falling the most in a year to pair a weekly rally. Mexican peso climbing after the central bank sold dollars. European shares falling a touch. Asian equities next. The allimportant monthly u. S. Jobs report and oil declining a touch. Straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres sebastian salek. Sebastian the offshore yuan has paired its record weekly
Response to accusations that turkey has given support for the Islamic State. Welcome to the program. Did the main suspect in the berlin truck attack have an accomplice in act oh German Authorities have detained a tunisian man. They say he had dinner the night before the attack. They want to find out if he knew about the plans or perhaps even helped him. They believe he may have been aware of his plan and possibly hated him. We think the suspect in question had known each other for a year. The day before the truck attack. We believe he may have known about the attack in advance but we can be absolutely certain of this. Cant be absolutely certain of this. We cant obtain an arrest warrant related to the attack. Berlin police are holding him in custody on grounds of welfare fraud. Based on a reconstruction of the root, investigators believe he shot the polish transport driver around 7 30 p. M. In the evening, half an hour before he plowed into the Christmas Market on december 19. A short t
Im ayman mohyeldin. Breaking news. Former president bush has been hospitalized but is resting comfortably. He is doing fine, and his office says they expect the former president to go home in a couple days. Earlier this month, bushs office and his wife, barbara, who celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary, would not attend trumps inauguration due to his age. Donald trump is back at his fifth avenue place one of the last times before his inauguration. He had a black tie dinner packed with foreign diplomats where he boasted to large crowds planning to attend fridays inauguration. This place is surrounded tonight, but i want to thank you all for being here. We have Great Respect for your countries. We have Great Respect for our world. I also want to tell you, you know, so many people are talking about whats going on and now they Just Announced i think were going to have record crowds coming. Talk of record crowds kind of the Trump Transition Team is going out of its way to post social m
I know this is a sign of things to come here, but by this evening, there could be some moderate to heavy rain. Were getting through this first segment here. If you think its raining heavy now, im telling you, its on its way for later this afternoon. There are some breaks now showing up, but over towards livermore and down to san jose, even mountainview, and along the san mateo coast, it looks like moderate rain, as well. Well get a bit of a break, but this will enhance really fast by later this afternoon and also tonight. Some extreme lip heavy rain could be in the mix for parts of Mendocino County north. And well get our fair share, as well. You can see how that is being funneled right towards us. So marin county north, i think that will be the bullseye for this system. And alex, im hearing people say its already dicey. Thats right, steve, i would echo your friends on facebook there. You do need to slow down. Im seeing some of those solo spinout crashes that chp tends to have to deal
Fifth avenue place one of the last times before his inauguration. He had a black tie dinner packed with foreign diplomats where he boasted to large crowds planning to attend fridays inauguration. This place is surrounded tonight, but i want to thank you all for being here. We have Great Respect for your countries. We have Great Respect for our world. I also want to tell you, you know, so many people are talking about whats going on and now they Just Announced i think were going to have record crowds coming. Talk of record crowds kind of the Trump Transition Team is going out of its way to post social media ads to encourage people to head to washington for festivities. When he takes office hell be entering the office with the lowest ratings ever. 44 of americans approve of trumps handling of his president ial transition. Put those numbers into context. President obamas transition had a 71 approval at the same time. And just 30 express high levels of confidence that trump has the right s