Lisa and in the meantime, preparing for that washington d. C. Ceremony for july 4. David and if you dont want to watch that, you can watch the boston pops. Lisa right now we have a rather muted tone in markets. Nasdaq futures indicated slightly lower. In europe, a little bit of a gain. The euro gaining over the dollar. Cave on the part of italian leaders to European Union leaders on the part of their budget. David leaders getting something done. Lisa maybe. For now. David we are joined by lananh n guyen and michael mckee. Even as we are speaking, we have European Union Leadership Meeting once again in brussels. Michael well, they are supposed to start meeting, but they may be watching our show. Lisa but slightly. [laughter] michael they are struggling to come up with a compromise. Germans and french seem to be working well with the dutch to come up with leadership for the various commissioned posts, but the italians and others in the periphery havent cooperated. They dont want to just
Good morning for our audience worldwide, this is bloomberg surveillance on tv and radio alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Just about positive on the s p 500. Tom not your father strike. When i saw it, they nailed it about the 10 00 p. M. Stock. This is an original strike going back over to uaw history, back to 1958. Into real challenges before world war ii. It is an original strike, a selective strike, that is what is new. Jonathan gm said they offered unprecedented package. From ford, the union made little movement. Rambo, we have not heard from this white house, have we . We are waiting for a statement from the president. Lisa hit the he did speak with the leaders and auto manufacturers. What did he tell them at a time where his policy is contradictory . In one hand hes pushing for electric pickles and a lot of the vehicles are pushing back on yet they are helping some of the auto manufacturing with those. On the other hand, it is it is the most prounion in
Cable up by. 3 . Hit sofutures, tech got hard yesterday, we are getting a bit of that back. David oil traders around the world are heartbroken. You have thrown them over for going. It is all jonathans fault. Ok, parliament is debating President Trumps controversial tweet. The president was wrong to retweet antimuslim videos from a far right group, britain first. Earlier, the president tweeted that Prime Minister theresa mays focus should not be on him but on the threat posed by islamic terrorism. The synod is moving toward a final vote on the massive tax overhaul bill as early as today. Lawmakers voted along party lines to begin the debate. That doesnt necessarily signal that Republican Leaders have the authority votes they need. Theenate republicans passed tax bill, they still have to hammer out differences with the house version. Oil prices are edging higher hours after opec meets. The cartel and russia are ready to extend production curbs until the end of next year. The goal is to f
Current is performing well are a risk on currencies, dollaryen lower by 4 10 of a percent and the question is why . We will tackle that. And yields in the u. S. On the tenterhooks, pretty much going nowhere. 50 a barrel for crude oil. David and it is the big one, we will get the cpi numbers and they will give us a read on inflation. And then retail sales figures for january. 11 30 a. M. President trump meeting with members from both sides of the isle to talk about the infrastructure plan. Alix and a first take on the top three stories of the morning. Yen making a move in banks trading on volatility. And cpi. David i want to take a look at the cpi story. I want to pull up this chart that shows where we are. It is 8692, there we go. It is up. Gina, we have a projection on core and headline cpi, how the markets prepared for the said this point, because they are really on tenterhooks . Strategist a rate tell me yesterday that it was feeling like barrel friday in the middle the month. Frida
Back of this. They decided not to go with the hawks. Hes always been on the precipice, he decided to stay with the pack. Despite that, because of the fact we have a majority talking about stimulus over the next few months, a reduction of stimulus over the next few months, sterling is big. It has been reasonably well bit coming into today. Not news that the bank of england is saying that the market is underpricing the future Interest Rate rises. Once again, reiterating that line. Why do you think that is . Will the bank of england followthrough on the kinds of things its talking about now in a few months . Guy everyone i talked to says rates are rational right now. We have an 80 probability that the bank of england will deliver a hike in february. 50 in november. The bank will execute on a hike fairly soon. Everyone says that kind of makes sense, but then you have a whole conversation about why its never going to happen and the bank of england is not going to be in any hurry within the