Green arrows across the board in europe the dax is up by 0. 3 . The cac adding 1 . The focus again today, because yesterday it was the fuel for that whipsaw action, treasury yields, 1. 727, much firmer than what we saw yesterday. We saw a low of 1. 595 we had record lows across the yield curve. Thats worth noting. A lot of strategists saying we could test 1. 35. Beijings central bank setting the official reference rate for theyuan to the weakes level in a decade. Eunice yoon has more on the midpoint number that traders are watching they do it now at 9 00 p. M have to watch all the time eunice its worth it its worth it to stay up that late the central bank set the midpoint fix weaker than 7, but it was actually stronger than what a lot of analysts were expecting. So because of that traders were taking that as yet another sign that the government here wants to pull the reins back on the chinese currency there was no official commentary today on the fix it was interesting to see what came
Speed on the market action. Futures are a bit firmer. 0. 3 . Market,tion in the fx the bullish dollar call. The euro is a touch solid softer. Yesterday, massive repricing. 220 on the 10 year. Alix time for your morning brief. We get weekly crude inventory for the u. S. Trading at a oneweek low. Watching that later. Speaking gothe fed a conference. 2 00, the beige book, survey of regional economies, what does it say about the reflationary theme . Jonathan do you read the beige book . David i do not. Alix i will skim it. Jonathan it is a reason it is beige. Prime jonathan Prime Minister may will take questions and later, over in the u. K. , as they will debate the call for a snap election. It was not meant to happen until 2020. Two thirds need to vote for the snap election that Prime Minister may would like. David . David Morgan Stanley was not the only Bank Reporting results. Blackrock posted better than estimator earnings. It is the cover story of markets magazine. The ceo, larry fink,
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