Pounds of oozing eels across a highway. Early today starts right now. Happy friday morning to you. At this hour, President Trump will be taking part in the bastille celebrations in paris. Hes the special guest of frances president commemorating one of its most symbolic days of the year. Trufrs arrival comes after a night of dining at the identical tower and a day of taking in it the sights alongside Melania Trump and meeting oneonone with mac ron broadcasting this image of a unified france and United States. Certainly a far cry from the white knuckled grip we saw between both men less than two months ago. Moscow isnt too far away. Questionsen surrounding his sons controversial sitdown with a russian lawyer. Questions about a meeting some are calling a smoking gun, one of which the president now defends. As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. He took a a meet iing, not a government lawyer, but a a russian lawyer. Most people would have taken that meet iing. Its
From President Trump restricting immigration from seven mainly muslim countries. They say the move is unconstitutional, un american and unlawful. The Attorneys General said in a joint statement they were confident the order would be struck down by the courts. One federal judge has temporarily halted meanwhile, theres been more anger and consternation Around The World. The german chancellor Angela Merkel who has said the fight against terrorism does notjustify putting people from specific backgrounds or faiths under general suspicion. The mayor of london sadiq khan, has called the ban on refugees and immigrants from certain countries shameful and cruel. Its not all critical though. The right wing populist dutch politician Geert Wilders tweeted no more immigration from any islamic country is exactly what we need. At home, the administration has has downplayed a court ruling which temporarily rules out deporting people who have already arrived, saying it only applies to a small number of
Lose a key vote in the house of lords. Good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. We have a packed show. Theres quite a lot of movement on the markets. This is a picture for your data. We are getting eurozone manufacturing pmi. This is for the month of february. They are rising to 55. 4. Anything above 50 means they are expanding, but it is a slight miss compared to what economists had been expecting. Im looking at euro. We are seeing a little pressure on euro. We have a market expert to give us all his thoughts on whether it is linked to some of the political turmoil we may see in france. Eurozone manufacturing pmi, 55. 4 for february. Onto your markets and without a doubt, everyone is looking at , hisdonald trump has said softer tone masking a little bit of difficulty for his agenda in congress. This is what investors are trying to look at. They are looking at donald trump, but they are really looking at the wirp function on the bloomberg terminal. Were looking at fed moves. The g
John cryan will speak to us at 8 15. Car consolidation. Psa is said to purchase gms european operation for 2 billion euros. And passive aggressive. Standard life is to purchase Aberdeen Asset management as the etf industry drives fees lower and lower. Howdy will because cuts have to be to make these businesses competitive . Matt we are less than 30 minutes away from the european open and take a look at futures, down across the board. You saw u. S. Markets down as well, the cash trade there, asian stocks as well. European futures are following suit. I think more interesting is the bund trade right now, maybe it is a rebound. We saw such a huge spike in yields on friday, up to 0. 356 . But now yields are coming back down and investors are getting back into european debt, 0. 343 on the bunds. Guy lets take you to the gmm. I want to focus on the second column. I want to show you the japanese yen. It is up this morning. This is because of what is happening in north korea and there is a safe
Port city. Donald trump as he tries to repeal Barack Obamas Affordable Care act. He may jeopardize one of his top campaign pledges. Thank you very much for being with us. Candlelit vigil has been staged in londons trafalgars were trafalgar square. A Police Officer left lost his life. The other victims killed, a mother of two and an american tourist, both struck by the car on the westminster bridge. Seven others remain tonight critical in hospital, among them french schoolchildren. Three are from brittany. The attacker has been identified as khalid masood, a british citizen, born and raised in central london. He was not currently under investigation nor surveillance. Theritish police have named london attacker as khalid masood, shortly after the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for wednesdays strike on the british capital. Prime minister may had identified masood as a British National known to security services. Prime minister may some years ago he was once investigated by in