We will hear from Lloyd Blankfein and others, coming up on the european close. Have a look at where european equities are trading today. This is the chart we want, global macro movers. Equities, currencies, bonds, commodities, mix today, as you can see. Technology stocks sunk yesterday down for down from 2. 8 , mirroring what happened in the u. S. Not falling as much today. I slant is lower, luxembourg and denmark are higher. Lower,andi is luxembourg and denmark are higher. Sovereign bond yields are declining today. Commodities. That is the situation on the gmm function. Credit suisse is in the news today. It is planning to return half of its net income to shareholders through buybacks and special dividends and wants to reward shareholders to bolster the banks finances, after capping shareholders for more than 10 billion swiss francs in recent years. The best been selling risky assets and entering the final year of restructuring. Shareholders have stayed with the bank. Aviva in the new
Its on spotify right now. We aim to please. It seems like we have done this morning. Lets get into the market picture. A very rosie market picture this morning. Futures were as much as 200 points higher moments ago just shy at the moment on the dow 192. 4 to be precise. The s p higher by 14 the nasdaq up 22 markets did pull back on friday albeit only slightly closing down. 2 and the s p a little bit more that for the nasdaq for a week performance was fairly divergent. The dow was up 3 . Dow up 1. 5 the tax reform bill well discuss that passed the market late friday night. Ten year treasury note has responded as well in a risk on fashion somewhat weve seen the yield move up a little bit, 2. 39 closing on friday at 2. 36 over the weekend ticked up a bit. Crossed 2. 4 but is just below that level. More on the markets, but first to our top corporate story, cvs is buying aetna for 69 billion. Our Bertha Coombs is joining us on the cnbc news line with all of the news. Good morning, bertha. R
Decision also coming up brock said divorce talks are back on track to a new Commission President John Paul Junker and Prime Minister of tourism may so the next phase of negotiations can now finally begin. And to use call for a United States of europe but first he has to persuade his own social Democrat Party to Start Coalition talks with chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives news has an exclusive one on one with s. P. D. Leader watching schultz. Im sarah harman welcome to the show its good to have you with us one person who has been killed in clashes on the israeli gaza border following a day of violent protests that as the United Nations middle east envoy one. And about the risk of a violent escalation following the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel he told a gathering of the u. N. Security council at the move might trigger you know a lot of the actions which would make a peace deal harder to reach the Security Council meeting was requested by britain an
Decision also coming up. Brings in divorce talks back on track e. U. Commission president truckload younger and Prime Minister to resign may say the next phase of negotiations can now finally begin. Plus hes called for a United States of europe but first yes to persuade his own social Democrat Party to Start Coalition talks which i saw a glimmer of those conservatives still use has an exclusive one on one with s. P. D. Leader Martin Schultz. Also in the next sixty minutes well take you to zimbabwe a country that used to be the breadbasket of africa but the dictates of rule by Robert Mugabe have left it on its knees we look at the task ahead for its new president and the many challenges he faces. And the german human rights activist accused by encore of supporting a terrorist organization w speaks to peters story after his release from a turkish press. Great to have you along the United Nations middle east envoy has warned about the risk of a violent escalation following the u. S. Decis
Bloomberg looks at the future of investing. What does it mean for these passive investment giants have so much money . Has been getting more market share in the hedge fund industry. Its harder for them to find growth. Thats alternate on bloomberg best. Thats all still ahead on bloomberg best. Michael hello and welcome, i am michael mckee. This is bloomberg best. The week began with high hopes for brexit breakthrough, following reports that the u. K. And it you had made some terms on their divorce agreement. The dream was quickly dashed on monday. Mark the expected breakthrough failed to materialize. Apparently delayed over the irish border. The European Commission president John Claude Juncker broke the news. Mr. Juncker despite our best efforts and significant progress, we and our teams were not able to reach complete agreement today. This lunch started around 1 30 brussels time. About four hours ago. We understood that it one point, theresa may actually broke away from the lunch to c