Plus financial secretary. Were standing by for Election Results in argentina. The president is under pressure there. We will have the latest. Paul lets take a look at how things are shaping up in the market today. The straily just up and one minute ago. In as are coming online order in australia. Not a lot of action. Futures were indicating pickup of about a third of 1 . Futures for the nikkei traded out of chicago. They are looking slack right now. U. S. Equity markets are also pointing higher. Sytock global stocks back to the highest levels seen this year. Lets check in on the first word news. Su we begin with the california fires. Workingters are to contain blazes across northern california. This has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people. Homes have burned to the ground. This is driven by a windstorm packing 90 mileperhour gusts. Gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency with nearly 3 Million People without power as of sunday. The result of argentinas election is expected in
Cost be index with the south reaching its july highs against the u. S. Dollar. Lets have a look at where we are in chinese markets. We will talk about blockchain a little later. Hang seng index flirting with 27,000. Dollar china, sterling on the u. S. Treasuries. He had the doj coming in shortly after. The fed widely expected to cut rates. Trick or treat is how bank of America Merrill lynch is calling that. Among other things topping our minds as we get underway this friday. Su keenan is waiting for us in new york with an update of your first word news. Su President Trump is calling on the world to continue fighting Islamic State. This, after announcing its leader is dead following a u. S. Military raid in northwest syria. Becomes thebaghdadi highest ranking terrorist leader killed or captured since obama trump said the u. S. Is now targeting his likely successor. He is a sick and depraved man. And now he is gone. Was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a
Especially big oil and big attack. We will have the likes of credit suisse. Its very much so a mixed fixture mixed picture. Are mixed financials this morning. Also interested to see how retailers will do today given the fact lvmh looking to make a bid for the blue box, tiffanys. Staples and industrials are in the red, looking to be a risk off here in europe. What are you seeing across individual names . Winners butrs and lvmh is at the top of your list as far as Companies Adding index points or holding us back from further losses. Adding points to the index, you shall in second place there. Luxurygot some other stocks there carrying specifically. If you look at the losers here, onc is the biggest weight the stoxx 600. Taking out about 2 10 of a point from the stoxx 600 down half a point right now. Unilever are also losers today. You do see two of the biggest newsmakers, Louis Vuitton making an offer for tiffany is the biggest gainer. Asc earnings disappointed the biggest loser. The ind
Is ready for a long political battle. Host hong kong drops its bid for the lse. It is too challenging of a deal to pull off. The brexit outlook remains murky at best. We are nimble. We are in limbo, and that is not a good thing. Host they discussed the british divorce from europe. If i am right, the u. K. Will come back and rejoin the european union. Host jay powell says the fed is planning to expand its Balance Sheet. They came out and said we are doing this, be prepared. Host and an exclusive conversation with Robert Kaplan shedding more light on Monetary Policy. This cutting we are doing should be limited, restrained, and modest. Host it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome, i am nejra cehic and this is bloomberg best. Your weekly review of the most important Business News, analysis and interviews around the world. Let us start with a day by day look at the top headlines. With the u. S. And china set to talk trade in washington this week, investors were optimis
Lender could cut more jobs. Adding to those already announced in august. Manus good morning to you, monday morning. Sentiment being driven by the chinese. They think they have President Trump on the run. The oil market. We dropped by 5. 5 last week and we are adding to that momentum. And the positioning is aggressive when it comes to the oil market. Wtabullish positions on brent. Storming for the exit door. By 32 . Positions down we will bring you the oil charge. Let us take a look at dollaryen. This is a look at the bond market controlling. This is dollaryen. The bandwidth negotiations between china and the u. S. There is a hesitancy to break low work, the dollaryen. This position is under positioned. Because you see an aggressive repricing last week. Is ready to think about adjusting her position. She dissented twice. She is ready to reconsider the position based on the data. We will talk about that with our guest host in the next 45 minutes. Between chinans and the u. S. Are prepari