Performance in the s p 500 right now. Saying ite and fitch weighed heavily on their quarter, down 13 . A little selling in the treasury market today. We will be talking about all that in just a moment. In europe, one of the bigger stories today, italy. Prime minister conte has accepted the mandate from the president to come up with a government, sending the ftse mib up to the best performance in europe. It is up in europe as well, potentially on china comments. The italy 10 year yield currently firmly below 1 right now,. 96 . The except to the exception nokia is the vonovia. Coming up, it is the end of the gso era in credit. We will speak with Bennett Goodman about his departure from blackstone. China indicating it will not immediately retaliate against the latest round of u. S. Tariffs announced by President Trump last week. Beijing instead, beijing is emphasizing ways to deescalate the trade war. For more, we are joined by john ryding, rdq economist and founder. John, looks like ther
The lowest since october of 16. Stocks are going to continue to have a tough time as long as yields keep falling the way they are. And it doesnt seem like where are we stopping is the next question . We talked about this up over the 3s started getting toward 3. 25. Now looking at the down side its amazing to see how much pressure that were seeing right now in terms of the yield and how much thats moving to the down side. Volatilities have been spiking we know that we had that pullback but stayed above 20 still trading around the 22. 5 area the markets remain very, very volatile for all the right relationships. When you look at the mix of whats going on. Whether its the tenyear, the trade wars or you talk about any different issue thats going on, the president and some of the commentary, what people think about what larry kudlow might have said yesterday. All of that combined, there is a lot of unease out there right now. No doubt about it. And the only safe places that i can find right
Lets get you up to speed on these markets. European stocks. The dollar has dipped. It has transferred to a mild complexion of a dying day this thursday morning in europe. European equity markets are the lead protagonists. Pessimist guide on bloomberg for 2018 is about technology, facebook and disinformation. You can still make money as bitcoin drops. The bloomberg dollar index down. The bloomberg dollar index is looking at a fairly tortured year. Do you buy that story that it is all about adjustments . Im not so sure. Yields drop. Were down to a threeweek low. You are looking at the bloomberg dollar index. The worst year since we started collecting data in 2004. Copper is rising to a fairly big level. Fouryear high. China has halted production. We know that. Youre looking at the eighth straight quarter of gains. You could see copper trade up to 10,000. U. B. S. A little more sedate. The swriss known for their sedate approach. It has outperformed pretty much every other commodity this y
Kospi in south korea was up by 1 1 3 shanghai index ended slightly higher as well this morning in europe in some of the early trading weve already seen, again, the green arrows continue there, too the dax is up by over half a percentage point the cac in france up by 4 ftse is up by. 3 of a percent. Check out crude oil prices which were up sharply last week. We saw oil close above 50 for the first time in over a month a gain of 2. 50 over the course of the week. This morning down by 2 cents to 49. 87 currency, dollar was also stronger after coming under pressure in recent months but the dollar index was stronger. Dollar down against the euro at 119. 5. Up against the yen, 111. 29. Record night of emmy awards. Handmaids tale. Took home the top prize. The cast of veep took home the best comedy. Saturday night live came out on top it won nine awards hbo won the most awards of any network. Big little lies helped secure that record. Hbo held off netflix yet again winning 29 total emmys compa
The or early this week, a judge approved fraud charges against hernandez and two aides and ordered her assets frozen. Issidentelect donald trump turning to former president s john f. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan for inspiration for his address. That is according to the washington post. He wants to keep the speech short. A president ial historian tell cnn he wants to write the speech himself. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am taylor riggs. This is bloomberg. Julie live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am julie hyman. Joe i am joe weisenthal. Oliver i am oliver renick. The question is, what did you miss . Scarlet risk assets julie risk assets appear to be taking a breather. Oil retreating from its highest close in 17 months. Treasury is extending gains after a strong auction. Sears ceo Eddie Lampert is opening his wallet yet again to help keep the struggle retailer in business. He is offering a 200