What is happening in the World Economy. Working off a couple signs that the Global Economy is losing momentum. We are also getting october area manufacturing pmi instead of the forecast of 46 pounds. Its all to do with the extension. Were hoping and waiting to hear from the eu. We are getting a couple of key decisions and we have the ecb a little bit later today. All eyes on mario draghi for his last News Conference. Bank norges bank leaving its key rate unchanged. Shares are down 22. 5 and we will have a full roundup of all of your stocks. Coming up, we speak to the acting chief executive of air shuttle in about 10 minutes. But first, lets get straight to first word news in your city. Agree theysadors should accept the eus request for a third extension of the brexit process. Splitey are reportedly over how long to grant the extension. The french are pushing for a tight deadline but many other countries want to permit the three months officially asked for. Johnson was forced to ask for
Wednesday. Closing the day up by 123 points still on track for major indices to see the third week in a row looking at dow futures s p 500 down by 10, nasdaq down by 25. What happened . Stocks took a dive it was more a product of the percentages were going up for powell to have another cut all but factored in. Bad news has become good news. Good news has become good news if you look at the december percentage cut, it doubled 30 to 60 . October, yes december, yes. Sort of. The market took that as a positive well see what happens today the jobs report is the all important one that hits in 2. 5 hours time. Looking at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei ended up by about a third a percentage point the hang seng is up just over 1 you are looking at a mixed picture. Not Much Movement for the dax or the ftse a little weakness in italy and spain. Looking at treasury yields coming under pressure on this data in terms of the ism manufacturing numbers and the nonmanufacturing ism we got y
After delaying its ipo and new details on facebooks newest project to develop augmented reality smart glasses. Worldwide exchange starts right now. Good morning, im Courtney Reagan in for Brian Sullivan this morning shares of fedex crumbling. The company missing on earnings and lowering guidance. Much more on that stock coming up you can see shares down more than 11 in the early going. Here is how your money and Global Markets are setting up their day. Stock futures are indicating a slightly lower average dow jones lower by 34 points s p by 4 and nasdaq by 10. 5. It is fed day. That is really the focus not just in the u. S. But around the world. Looking at the bond market we continue to watch closely the different between the 10year yield and the twoyear yield the two year is 1. 711 and the 10year at 1. 77. In japan, stocks closing slightly lower so nikkei down the hang seng as well. The composite is up by about a quarter. Everyone waiting to see what will happen when we hear from the
Lets take a look at what is happening in asia too. Those markets were closed. Hang seng off by. 1 and the shanghai up about a quarter percent. Youll see at this hour, slight gains across the board italy up three major averages up. 1 to. 2 . The tenyear is yielding 1. 772 . The 30year at 1. 28. We were just talking about all of this. All of those moves made. Pretty confusing to figure out what was happening and why i think there are a lot of people looking at a lot of these small events and does it have bigger implications. In this environment where everyone is feeling uncertain. I think these fractures make more people nervous. Whether this is a bigger issue, i will know this weighs on investors sieky i had a 2007, summer of 2007 bnp scare. There was maybe 2 billion that was frozen, sub prime and there was a freak out. At the time, it didnt feel meaningful this is the first time the fed stepped in the only time they did this was in the middle of a crisis. Thats right. This is a warning
Ideas business if you like. Host could you walk us through one of the times youve done this and with whom . Guest well, candidate up in seattle, a gentleman called mat susan who was bravely running as a libertarian in a 90 democratic district. So youve got to do some quite interesting things branding the message, you have to run in basically downtown seattle. We had a wonderful effective campaign, we ran a campaign that said there is no them and this is a statement against the sense that politics have become very tribal, very divisive and even up there in seattle where youve got basic political culture, right, throughout the United States that the problems of the extremes, whatever side youre on, left or right and in many ways, the quiet moderate left and the quiet moderate right have more in common with each other than with the extremes of their own political side. And that rising affection in the u. S. Polls are showing that and that means its a political open because its a problem t