After the bell as it predicts a return to sales growth. Investors also liking the Dividend Increase and wider stock buyback. Haidi attention turning to fridays u. S. Jobs report for clues on rates and possibly a third japanese intervention this week. Annabelle plus, bloomberg reveals how blacklisted chinese tech giant huawei is secretly funding cuttingedge research in u. S. Universities. Haidi take a look at how we are setting up for this final friday session. It has been a petulant week both in terms of reaction to the fed, the big action we are seeing across pricing for the, but also a number of Public Holidays. Asian stocks are set to rise as really big tech those apple numbers set to lift some of those earnings of Companies Across asia. New zealand on the back in the early part of the trade. Chicago, nikkei futures looking pretty perky, about. 4 higher. We are also looking at when it comes to the next leg of what we see for chinese equities in hong kong, the a 50 china futures inde
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Mark welcome to surveillance, im mark barton in london. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 9 , rising for the fourth day in five, contract for the best week since december, 2016. The european gains surging 2. 8 . Year, coming. S. 10 down today, breaking below 2. 9 , is where we are today. We closed above 2. 9 percent yesterday, the highest level since december 2014. Today, export and import data. Spot indexrg dollar is lower today by about 0. 25 . Sincee lowest level december 2014. A growing number of economists forecast the fed will step up the pace of rate increases. The u. S. Twin deficit becoming a likely catalyst for a new wave of dollars selling after a brief respite, i say a brief respite in february. This is coming up on surveillance today. We talk with the chief executive of metro bank. Withr, we talk the 10 year ylagos. Mateos taylor riggs joins us from new york. Reporter the u. S. Senate has blocked four immigration proposals, leaving a bitter impasse over how to protect 1. 8 million
This is a annual event that the Japan Program hosts to invade thinkers who we often dont get to listen to here in washington. This year i am extremely honored to have these leaders. They have been my mentors. I respected them deeply. They have caught me so many things over the years that i have known them. Im very very happy they agreed to come to washington and talk to us this morning. You all have a bio in the program thats in your seats. I save you from a lengthy introduction. It is to demonstrate joint operations on selfDefense Forces and we will listen to what they have in mind about future defense posture. Before i start im a director of Japan Program here. This annual event could not have happened without a lot of the sponsors and supporters of the Japan Program. I would very much like to thank all of the Japan Program supporters at this occasion. You can see the list of supporters at the back of this pro su bro sure. Hopefully this will grow over the years. A couple of administ
Amazing. Futures 57, under 3 measured. Challenge. A the euro 1. 111. Elevated,was really 27. Sterling, 1. 3625. A difficult go of it. 1322. Julie this is my favorite part of the year. This is the pound index. You can see the incredibly tight correlation all through overnight trading into the morning. Only do we see a slight divergence. The white line is the pound index. All such lows, climbing a little bit higher versus the stock getting clobbered. Correlationkind of you do not expect to see in your lifetime. Scarlet this is not normal. When you look at how the cash market is doing, it is not that bad in contrast. Take a look at the bloomberg. When you break it down into sectors, you have attained main desk you have 10 main groups. Companies faring better. The losers are financials, the big banks. We want to show you within the dow the big movers. The dow has 30 members. The only gain is up by half of 1 . Stock is down. Alix now lets check in on bloomberg first word news this afternoon