Good afternoon from asia. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Stoxx 600 down. We are expecting more choppy trading on the back of the testimony this week from jay powell. Prospects after we had conflicting signals from the world economy. 1. 12. Ollar coming up, paul the fx calls all the fx calls with david bloom. Tensions between japan and south korea are threatening to wallop much now depends on whether shinzo abe and moon jaein can work out a compromise. A cycle of measures and countermeasures would not be ideal for both countries but if south Korean Companies begin experiencing actual damage, the government would have no choice but to respond as necessary. I hope it does not come to that and we urge japan to withdraw its measures. Greece primenew minister has a new finance minister. One of the first tasks will be to renegotiate. Epstein being held at a Correctional Center in new york as he awaits a bail hearing on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. The charges include sex acts 14,
The dax is down some 1 . A little bit of pressure on the stoxx 600, i guess a little bit of concern over the tax overhaul. There is a little bit of pressure on miners. The bloomberg dollar index again, the dollar seems to be pretty steady. I am looking at the pound because of theresa may and there could be some kind of rebellion brewing. We will get our Political Correspondent on that. We talk economics and Monetary Policy with larry hathaway. He is the head of investment solutions. Then, we discuss as it presses we discuss asset prices. Overhaul. The tax we are also just getting some breaking news out of indias central bank. It is maintaining its neutral Monetary Policy stance. I know we will get the chart of for you and i will bring you any breaking news that we have from the rbi of india. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra donald trump will formally declare jerusalem to be israels capital and direct the state department to start the process of moving the Ameri
About the danger Marine Le Pen poses. Political risk. The victory of marina le pen in france would be impermanent Political Risk to europe. I will talk brexit, italy, donald trump and the reflationary trade in the United States but first things first. This is what were looking at overall. Want to spend time looking at the pound because yesterday article 50 was triggered. Today we are expecting some sort of white paper ahead of the bill. Global stocks retreating a touch. Critics spending its rally. European stocks not changing much. We are not seeing a lot of movement and pound. Yesterday we did see it drop lower. Losses later in the day at 11. 36. Two guilds in front of the treasury in the next couple of minutes. The chinese president will meet with donald in florida next week according to the news agency. The meeting will be the first between the leaders sense trump took office. Regularlyresident has highlighted grievances with including the u. S. Trade deficit with china and charges
Down by a full percentage points. You have to say, what is happening on the continent, the pain more acute in mainland europe. David we were looking at this before, was you put this in the same and once you put this in the same currency, rebates, everything going into the dollar, and you will see why this next board is important. The town has been battered pound has been battered, down by over 8 . That does not look as dramatic. And this was have been in the market swiss have been in the market. At. 07 and we got down on the dollarthe yen, trading down by nearly 4 . Jonathan bring up the bonds. Yields on treasury grinding got to alltime lows. Points on the session. And for me, you spoke earlier, the idea that they could use lose a triple Credit Rating in the United Kingdom. This is down 33 basis points. We talked about it being more acute on the continent. I believe it is down 12 basis points, 20 basis points on a 10 year yield right now. David it is a sovereign, so the effect is much
Welcome. I am in and words. A new record. It took a long slog. The s p is what i am talking about, and not. Two major corrections. The longest stretch. The priceve got is earnings ratio. With trading up 20. Over the past 50 years, we are now above the average. The average over the past 50 and bp basis, around 16. 5. We are trading way above that. S p 500 has cited above its 2007 pecan the last rallies since this was 1946, 13 . That comes down to whether or not you believe the fed is going to hold back. Little like goldilocks. Absolutely. Anna the stimulus bets coming in from other parts of the world sounds a little bit goldilocks. The risk rate on overnight. The topics are in here and that is where the best games are coming from. A Strong Equity picture from japan. They have been saying about fiscal stimulus. 103 spot 06. Currency spending. Fiscal stimulus story crucial. What we have seen in some of the u. K. Political scene. 1. 3066. D, that is what closing the political vacuum tentat