The ibex on the flipside is weaker. Political unrest in spain. Ahead of the ecb meeting, here is where we are stacking up. 43 basis points. Gold at a low. Ecbd says david the will hold its policy meeting where mario draghi is expected to announce tapering decisions. Now, lets get an update on what is making headlines. Taylor shinzo abe gambled on early elections and won. That boosts his chances of winning another term. That could make him the longestserving leader. Investors responded. The increased role in the counterterrorism policy. The cia has increased operations in afghanistan. Joining to hunt and kill the taliban. Spanish authorities have rejected a call for negotiations. Day, i ams 24 hours a taylor riggs. Messy politics in spain will be the backdrop for the meeting. The theme is lower the amount and extend the bond buying program. From london, i want to get your take from the unrest we have seen from spain. Does it influence the ecb at all . At the moment, it will not be a key
Pick up as well. Negative rates, plus the global bond rally and the outlook for Central Banks across the world with blackrocks cio rick rieder. That is coming up later in the program. Jon, overall you are looking at equities still near the oneyear high. Positive for the year for the First Time Since january. You see it on the move today, up about. 4 . The ftse up as well, about a quarter of a percentage point. Futures in the United States possible futures in the United States positive as well, getting back to a record high. Eurosterling, that broke out to an august 2013 high at one point in todays session. Better euro strength against that pound weakness. In a commodity market, wti crude closed out last week. Positive again today, up. 3 . 44. 63. Now at friday was all about weak retail sales. Twoyear note is coming in again, down a basis point. We trade at. 698 . The week ahead, all about the fed guides with the minutes coming up, and a treasury market in focus. Asx lots of fed speaker
Day. The little bit of china a little bit of japan, a little bit of brexit. We shaken up and see what happens. Tom we are were shaking up cocktails this weekend. The way this week is well. One of them took the numbers back to 1896. It is hot, hot, hot. And i am not going to do august. Im fascinated by the japan releases. Francine yeah, and that puts a lot of pressure on governor kuroda, as if he didnt have enough. Lets get to nejra cehic. Nejra the uks exit from the European Union could be delayed until 2019, according to the sunday times. They say new departments set up for the transition may not be ready to start negotiations as early as protected. Because of that, it may be late next year before the u. K. Invokes article 50, a part of the eu agreement that gives the country two years to leave the bloc. Operations have resumes at john f. Kennedy airport after reports of gunfire led to two terminals being evacuated. Police determined that no shots were actually fired. They havent said