And the next bank of england governor is to be named later. Say fda head and you bailey is in pole position. Paul lets check on how we are doing in the markets. Australia just opened. We have a staggered open, so very much early days. Ever so slightly higher. New zealand continuing to build on record highs that it reached thursday, up. 5 right now. Nikkei futures looking kind of flat. We are of course waiting on numbers, cpi numbers for november, expecting to see a slight uptick mainly inspired by the sales tax. We also have futures just coming online, looking flat as well. Lets check in on the first word news and get over to jessica summers. Central banks made headlines with policymakers in swedenying on hold but swimming against the tide and ending half a decade of negative rates. Bank indonesia kept its key rate unchanged for a second straight month, saying the economy and exports will rebound in 2020. The boj also held as expected, with the governor echoing the more optimistic tone
Today, its not just democracy integrity andlection but in the 2020 election. So we have a time horizon of 14 months. I think i can put it very well, what is the scenario, its sort of a butterfly balance on steroids. If we have a postelection and if we have a contested result, and even just a couple of counties, and there is a been a Disinformation Campaign that is exposed that may have skewed the results. But i worry about is i dont know how we quite survived the second election here in this country. A second president ial election that comes into serious question. We come at this from a slightly different angle. We are Free Speech Organization but we also see ourselves as guardians of open discourse and of truth. We are not digital specialists and we are not election specialists we are an organization of writers and journalists and editors and publishers and people who are invested in the quality of our discourse and her ability to get facts from falsehood. All of that, we see is very
Ago. How many others are left . Patrick im sure there are some of the young men around nixon, what we would call back in those days like Dwight Chapin and others who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. But i do think in terms of a written memoir, this is brian, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you had never talked about before . Patrick well, i put in the origins of the agnew speech my memos on that. There is a number of memos in there then i went to my files and got out that i have never published before a great number of them and theres a description of how i almost defected on the china trip. I was so unhappy with it, and theres also the end of it, you know where you put in that quote by john osborne and it looks so he said, he saw i had seen shelly and me when first day, the Inauguration Day in 1969 looking up at the portico and then he had seen how it all end
Wednesday and thursday morning. It will be a winter storm warning probably. Rain returns tomorrow. It looks like tomorrow afternoon for much. For the bay area, it looks like tomorrow afternoon. Not a whopper of a system. Still half inch to one inch amounts to two to four possible possible towards marin county and northward. Good gust as well. The highest tide at 3 55 at the golden gate. Still plenties of 30s and still plenty of 30s and 40s. You notice the haze settling in. That happens when you get High Pressure this time of year. The fog burns off and there is inversion, so it leaves behind hazy skies. 35 degrees in campbell. 35 in soquel. Scotts valley, gilroy at 34. There is your easterly breeze. It will slowly turn a little to the south here as the system gets closer. It wont be until later. You have the east wind. That is cold. That is cold. There is your system for tomorrow. That will bring us rain. The first of at least three systems. Low 20s for some. Upper 40s if youre stuck i
The global head of fx strategy at bmp. The brexit show is at 9 30 u. K. Time. We talked to the former u. K. Chancellor and the former justice secretary Charles Faulkner. Before we get to the markets, we are getting a little data out of the eurozone. This is what we are seeing in terms of pmi data. Expected. Etter than let me pull it up for you. T is rising to 55. 5 just short of estimates but it is still an increase from the month earlier. That is the impact it has had on eurodollar. Well, not any impact. 105. 17. This is your data, everything has to do with repositioning. We had a pullback in u. K. And u. S. Equities yesterday. European stocks falling lower a touch. It is all about janet onlen and her weighing in the path for Interest Rates, that german two year yield, minus point 84. Lets get to the first word news. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has removed himself from investigations into russian influence. It comes amid calls from democrats for him to resign over conversations las