Paris as farmers protest policies. Coming up this hour, a new lease churches. R abandoned that is thanks to businesses who want to set up shop in them. Europes space agency takes on the private sector. R. More o on that fight to beat spacex on the way. First, our top story on live from paris. The new cabinet of the European Commission has been approved. A comfortable majority for the new Commission President and german conservative. Members of parliament gave their final oki after months of negotiation over who should fill those top jobs. Catherine ninicholson has bebeen following the vote. She joins us from strasburg. What can out a enthusiasm. It is quite a lot of relief, not just that this commission w eopn parliament. She to get a bigger majority than Jeanclaude Juncker back in 2014. It is not necessarily accepted, but surprised they are given support. This is not a blank check. Me we will vote today, but dont think we will pass everything you want to be made as law without questio
U. S. And chinese negotiators agree on a tariffs rollback if and when a trade deal is reached but stocks and futures slipped from asia to europe. In europe, Jeanclaude Juncker says President Trump will spare autos from tariffs ahead of next weeks deadline. The hong kong protests caused revenues to slump. The city prepares for another weekend of demonstrations. Good morning. Matt good morning. Less than a halfhour from the start of u. S. Trading. We saw haven assets really catch a bid, especially over the last few days. This is the threeday chart of treasuries. You can see the yield jumped up past 195. It is coming off a bit today. Right now, we see 1. 91. Yesterday, we saw a real change in sentiment, it looks like. For example, gold, which had been catching a bid in the last few weeks and months on concerns about the trade war, dropped 30. We will watch that and talk about that today. In terms of what we are looking at in terms of the trade in less than 30 minutes time, we see futures
Bright spots. Exports declined less than domestic but weak demand continues to bite. Joining us from hong kong is in karenrrent is in the is enda curran. Is pickingps demand up, and might put a floor on the economy into year end. There was a weaker import, and that underlines that the domestic demand is still weak. We know that new orders of the official manufacturing pmi remain weak as well come us adjusting that bottoming out still has a little bit to go before we can fully call it stabilization in chinas economy. The trade numbers were ok. There were certainly some optimism, but the big picture remains whether the government can push ahead and reach this phase i agreement theyve been talking about. Alix speaking of, the conversation has been to digitally that the phase i deal will happen in a rollback. The ministry of commerce spokesman in china saying that there have been serious discussions, and agreed to remove the tariffs in phases as progress is made on the agreement. What is t
For the imf meetings but lets get a check on the markets as investors digested the data out of china earnings will be coming through in europe. We struggle a little bit and stoxx 600. Cable is coming off a fivemonth high. A lot of concern going into this weekend and what parliament will vote on in terms of the brexit deal. We are talking about potential rate hikes. Coming up, we hear from the Vice President of the european atmission that 1130 time 11 30 a. M. London time. And still to come, we speak to bank of England Governor Mark carney at 5 30 p. M. London time. Definitely not want to miss. All of those conversations from the Imf World Bank annual meeting. Lets get first word news in new york. We begin with the ceasefire in syria. The u. S. And turkey agreeing to a break in hostilities to allow kurdish fighters to withdraw. Once the ceasefire takes affect them a donald will remove this weeks sanctions, but u. S. Senators from both sides say the deal does not go far enough. Reluctant
To a weaker dollar and higher yields across the globe. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start with the breaking news in the u. K. The pound is strengthening against the dollar on brexit optimism. Francine lacqua is live at westminster. Give us the lay of the land as we start trading this morning. Francine i have to say, you are absolutely right. You have to look at the currency. Theres this renewed optimism after a lot of ministers say they will be able to pass this first, we dont know whether Boris Johnson will be eight able to push his deal once again through a vote in parliament. Cow in the past has said no because this is the same deal. We could have various moments forcing the Prime Minister to ask for a referendum or forcing the u. K. To stay in the customs union. If it gets amended, word on the ground is that the Prime Mini