Welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. Ryan and i am ryan chilcote. Anna we have numbers on the swiss wealth manager. The distant profit before tax is 128 million swiss francs. Here is the key number. 1. 4 million. Ryan 284 billion swiss franc second of april. Anna the big story around this business is around m a in both senses of the word really of whether anyone would be arrested in buying this business wednesday settled there outstanding issues and indeed what they might be interested by. Ryan indeed. They are about when billion dollars worth of cash they could deploy. We are seeing holds on acquisitions. Definitely something we will be speaking with the ceo. Anna lets talk but u. S. Equity markets. Fascinating moves. The great takes opening up in a limited fashion this morning. Seems the equity markets are trying to move on from that story. Anna ryan a remarkable story. Looks like investors have moved on. Anna 100 of the s p 500 reported this weeks earnings very much a focus. Lets
Stifle from the strength of swiss franc. And the reverse takeover in the British Assets in a 1. 3 billion pound deal. Good morning, everyone. Another episode of Worldwide Exchange. Good morning to you, seema . Yeah very good how about you . A lot happening in the gold market overnight. Absolutely. Lets get to the stop story. The price of gold has slump tide fiveyear low. The precious metal was trading as much as 4 lower after the asian markets posted. That mood with randall resources hit the hardest. Spot gold currently off at 1. 6 . And s p down 10 . Northern star down by 0. 2 . And the chinese selling and triggering stop loss orders. 1 million being traded on that very exchange. Thats after the government said on friday that the gold reserves were up 57 from six years ago, abdomen that was a lot less than people had had anticipated. A lot of factors seem to be weighing on the price of gold right now. You also have the fed indicating that they will raise rates sometime this year in th
Fascinating conversation and content out of those interviews. Cant wait to see them all. I amme to daybreak asia, haidi lun here in sydney. Betty i am betty lou at the Global Headquarters in new york. Before we get to the great therviews, a recap of markets. We sell the dollar gain, oil markets higher, oil touching above the 50 a barrel level. That led to stocks rising. Lets pull up the board to show where markets closed. The dow added on 40 points. S p gaining. The nasdaq higher, as well. We continued to digest lots of news in the u. S. We will be watching economic numbers that are key for the market. Haidi we spent so many days talking about the weather, north korea, geopolitical risks. We are now focusing back on monetary policies and the macro environment. Check out how we are setting up ahead of the data. New zealand, trading sideways, up 1 10 of 1 . The kiwi dollar at. 7252. The dollar rising for a third day, expectations that may be a fed rate hike in december, pushing to almost
Euro to much better levels. I do not think they will do anything for the time being. A very warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. In flagship show, from here the city of london, i am anna edwards. And imf miller in berlin. A lot to Pay Attention to throughout the day, especially when we look at currency moves. Anna i will talk about the dollar in a moment. The big story around aramco, will it be in new york, along with riyadh . I should point out, the saudis say aramco remains on track. That big story throughout our programming. Risk on has been the story at the beginning of this week. To what extent has that unwound the dollar last week . Making something of a comeback. The u. S. Dollar Bloomberg Index shows at the bottom of the screen. Risk assetsrally in at the beginning of this week, now pausing in asia. Chinese data, all three measures coming in below estimates. All cooling, versus the last months set of data. So much to learn, whether that is the bank of england rate decisio
Said, this tax policy could end up in the policy trade jar of 2017. Theres a lot to do to get that through the United States of america. European equity markets are higher this morning. A couple of key stocks reported as well. Slightly better off as well. Opening sweeps on air france stock. 39 , tourism up rebinding, higher fares helping the market. In you will get a supply chain you want to understand and see the apple story. Its usually going to be long. Try to convince anna edwards to sit and sleep for me. It will keep we will keep a response. Energy is up. That will be on the back of a couple of things. Oil is moving. 88 , profitability up 88 . Profitabilitythat 706 million. Seeing a movement in the energy space as well. A lot of that priced into the eurodollar relationship as well. Bottom of your screen, 7. 92 . What are European Fund managers focused on . The stock market, higher than 2011. We are talking about a wave of recovery. For 2011. High s thirdquarter result double digit