Gold was making a bid for 1300. Now coming off that potential. Over,continues to roll separate from the macro events we are seeing there. It is down 0. 6 . David dan coats will testify before the Senate Committee on intelligence. At 10 30, we get weekly crude inventory numbers for the u. S. We expect supplies to fall. President trump continues his infrastructure week, traveling to cincinnati, to talk about investments in waterways. Jonathan we begin in spain co popular has been rescued by santander in a takeover. Seeing debt surging. Joining us to discuss more on the acquisition is Bloomberg Intelligence ajit. It will not make sense to people outside the markets. Market, this makes a lot of sense. Walk me through the junior debt and the senior debt. What has happened is overnight the ecb has market, ta lot of sense. Deemed popular is likely to fail. Debt,eans the tier one the tier to get have been two debt have been written down. Two has been converted into shares and transferred to sa
We are discussing with joe manchin, the senator from west virginia. It is a big drama. Jonathan as you know very well, there is a big question of whether it is drama or it really affects the world such as markets. Jonathan thank you very much. Lets begin by getting a look at the markets. Looking at futures, this morning. We go nowhere. Up about a 10th of 1 . The euro a little bit weaker. Treasuries on offer at the margin yields, creeping back off those 2017 lows. Alix i am taking a look at dollaryen, a really interesting morning for that currency pair. Exit from a monetary stimulus could be on the agenda at the boj. Dollar caught a bid and now dollaryen up on the day by 2 10 of 1 . Definitely an interesting level to watch. The vix goes nowhere. Well,s where, gold as off by about two dollars. Crude up by 5 10 of 1 . Lets count down to one of the big events. Less than an hour from now, we will hear from the European Central banks latest Monetary Policy decision. It is believed mario drag
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