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Secretary wilber ross are scheduled to meet in washington. Topic is trade. Cyberattacks. The countries, 200,000 the weekend. Other about who he was hit . We had people from Healthcare Telecom and Car Manufacturers manufacturers. In terms of france we had car to shut downad production at a number of plants this. To mitigate theres a disruption in germany on the trains and Telecom Companies reported some disruption in their services. Whenever a hospital gets thats a serious business. How sophisticated was this . Take patch out in march and put it on your microsoft, it fine. Be i think it wasnt too hard these people to mitigate once they were affected. Pretty easy to have taken some precautions that meant you were not going to be affected by this. Saw a number of companies that had not taken those precautions. Surprising. In term of sophistication of most people think it was not too sophisticated. We know thatlf, as the u. S. Oped by National Security agency. Anybody could use that tool t
Are on this planet, you you can watch this fight. Francine good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. We are getting breaking news out of germany. The Current Assessment for ifo, 1. 2416. This is the latest figure we got. We will bring you any breaking news. We will be speaking to the president of the ifo institute. In the meantime, this is the picture i am looking at on your asset markets. We are seeing a little bit of pause. A lot of currencies, a lot of stocks are drifting a little bit before janet yellen take to the states. Conviction inuch a lot of these european stock trading. This is what we are seeing overall. The euro falling. There was a little bit more Decisive Action in commodities where most Raw Materials climbed. 48 below 40. Thats get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Convictedlee has been of bribery, perjury, and embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison. He was found guilty of conspiring. He says he will appeal the verdict. Hurricane harvey has str
Interesting to see what effect this has on the markets. We have about four days left for you to get your portfolio in order for the final close of the year. Francine i do not know what we do, whether you bet on policy at top you listen or these indices going higher populism or whether these indices go higher. Found one ofa has the flight recorders from the military plane that crashed in the black sea. All 92 people were killed. Officials say the crash was unlikely to have been caused by terrorism. President elect donald trump is questioning the effectiveness of the United Nations. In a tweet he wrote the yuan has Great Potential but has become a club for people to have a good time. Pledging to work for a ceasefire in syria. Turkish Authorities Say they betweenilitate contact the Syrian Government and the opposition to end the civil war. To seek a truce in syria and hold peace talks. In germany, a new poll shows they believe 50 believe Angela Merkel will be able to deal with the problem
Jonathan coming up on this program, we had an important conversation with jeff currie. That is all coming up a little bit later. Softer,a little bit negative four points on the s p 500. A marginal move to the downside. Follows thats as yields lower by a basis point. The euro down a dollar six cents. It will lower by about 0. 1 . David Major Development in washington just sense since yesterday. We are joined by kevin up on capitol hill right now. Start with the Health Care Plan. Ryan House Speaker paul finally unveiling his plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care act. It will keep some key parts of obamacare preexisting conditions in providing health care to folks. That said, the story line is whether or not chief Party Members will fall in line with this. It could be the battle the first battle that Speaker Paul Ryan will have to battle to keep his party in line. The House Freedom caucus is already speaking out against this including some tea party g roups. They cannot advance the