Billion. Good morning, everybody. Happy monday. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Risk have a look at the radar. The tax story is very much epicenter of things for markets in the Asian Session and the United States on friday and of course, in the United States later on today. Lets have a look at the msci asiapacific, up by. 8 right now. The markets are factoring in something more positive on a tax run. The republicans agreeing to their version of the tax plan that this is the penultimate trading week of 2017, reflecting what we saw on friday on wall street. I wanted to highlight what is happening in india. Earlierhe sensex down on in todays session. It looks as if, he has come out victorious. We saw the sensex down by 2. 6 , up by. 7 in the indian session. By. 2 . Further to go on the tax bump story. We hit records on friday. Could we see further gains in todays session in the middle of week . A vote in the house and senate, and all of this to do with reduced rates of Corporation Tax
Against the dollar. The bitcoin bounce. The cryptocurrency surges more than 7 as trading starts on the worlds biggest futures exchange. Are we heading for another new year selloff . Matt were less than a halfhour away from the european open. Lets take a look at how the equity Index Futures are doing with no comment from the on the bitcoin news. You see futures down a third of down. 2 . We saw big gains for futures earlier, so if we have red arrows across the board on futures, that is interesting considering how strong they were this morning about 10 minutes ago. How it is interesting things are starting to turn around, because friday we saw be s p 500 trading up by. 9 . The nikkei overnight is up. Matt i am going to say that those futures were somehow incorrect. I still see strong gains on my bloomberg. The dax futures are up. 8 . I am going to say those should have been green arrows. Guy always believe the bloomberg i think of the message from this. That is the takeaway. 9 . P 500, up
Spoke at the ceremony. A sentiment echoed over and over. We begin with nbc bay area sam brock. Reporter the memorial for mayor ed lee began right at 3 00 p. M. With the presentation of the colors. Punctual like lee. He told terrible jokes. He laughed because he was trying to build enthusiasm for his jokes. Most of the time he told jokes that he could barely get through because he was laughing so hard at them himself. Reporter humor at times can push in great pain. Both were evidence in abundance this evening. The ceremony glided from stately impromptu addresses. Trust is the realm. Reporter to soulful statements about lees legacy. Wake up every day just tying to add a little value. Not try to take them down. Try to help lift them up. Reporter lees wife, anita nodded aalong as california leaders put the cultural context into place. The citys first asianamerican mayor. Marked about prejudice against the Chinese Community. China, San Francisco First Chinese american mayor, he was like a s
And will stay close and due to damage on the bridge and the roadway as well as the need for investigators and responders to work in that area. Just before noon, the National Transportation safety board held a News Conference saying the chief investigator will bring an entire team. Is accompanied by staff with expertise in operations, mechanical, track, signals, Human Performance and survival factors. The train was traveling on a newly laid section of tracks as part of an 800 million rail improvement project. The old route traveled along puget sound was too curvy for speeds as evidenced by this derailment and all tracks last july. He was carrying 267 passengers injuring several of them. According to the railroad administration, laster there were 8800 train accidents in the us causing 700 fatalities and 6500 injuries. He says the primary defendants for wrongful deaths and many injuries will be amtrak the spanish train manufacturer, and the company that owns the tracks often a major freig
Market picture this morning. As you can see were pointing higher to the tune of about five points or so the dow is up 27 the nasdaq up 13 we were a little bit lower yesterday, but not too much. The nasdaq was the laggard the other two were just below the flatline although it was the fourth negative session out of five for the dow. Albeit up 2 on the dow for the month as a whole which is the ninth straight month of gains for the dow. The s ps also looking at nine straight months of gains after december if we hold the gains at the moment which is pretty extraordinary, consistent gains through the course of this year. Lets have a look at oil prices coming up next as we said. Jumped significantly yesterday still up there near that 60 mark for wti. All right. Lets have a look at markets around the rest of the world hong kong was closed yesterday for the boxing day holiday most other markets open yesterday. Everything open today. Shanghai down a percent or so, but elsewhere slight gains for