Renounce violence. Many are asking what has changed. Laura first, further clues about how the french will vote on sunday as polls suggest a gap between front runner Emmanuel Macron and his rival, Marine Le Pen, is narrowing. Either abstain or spoil their ballots. Endorse macron display longheld french tradition of voting to keep the far right out of power. Around 7 Million People voted for him in the first round. Askede to jim shields and why those hard left voters would rather run the risk of letting the far right into power than voting for a manual macron . Emmanuelle macron. Maybe they get two or 3 million not going to vote for him. This is good news for Marine Le Pen who is having a second road she could scarcely have dreamed of. First, he refused to cover the front against le pen. Pact for a historic and they time ever have found an ally emerging from the traditional right. Overwhelminglyrt to vote blank rather than backing him. Every abstention and every blank vote will effective
Jeff bezos is within spitting distance of becoming the richest person in the world. The dow is down by about 20 points below fair value after six sessions in a row of gains. The nasdaq is down by 2. 5. Overnight in asia, well see that the nikkei was down by 0. 6 . Hang seng was flat. As was the shanghai. In europe and early trading this morning, as things get started, most of the markets are weaker. The dax is down by almost a half percent. Cac down by three quarters of a percent. Ftse up by 0. 1 . Markets in italy and spain are weaker. Crude prices are higher after dropping by 5 in yesterdays trading session. Analysts say that extension of opecs production cuts where they agreed to make the extension was already priced in the market was looking for cuts to last longer than nine months or deeper cuts. Neither of those things happened. This morning wti back up by 25 cents. It is below 50 a barrel. A couple big stories were watching. Jim bullard speaking in tokyo overnight and said the p
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. Backin back in the club. Pakistan reclaims its status as an investment destination. Our Oil Investors react . And, find out why this airport in south asia is not popular with travellers or airlines. Welcome to Asia Business report. A big day for pakistan, one that brings a boost to the countrys stock market as today is when pakistan rejoice the msci emerging markets index, that list looks at top rank stocks from around the world, they use those lists to determine where and how much to invest in stocks. It signals that things could be turning around for a nation where political and terror related problems have taken centre stage. Pakistan used to be part of the index but was removed due to the decision to shut down for four months in late 2008 after prices dropped dramatically meaning Foreign Investors could not get their money out. We arejoined by investors could not get their money out. We are joined by our corresponden
Dollar infrastructure plan today, boosting spending in rural areas. Manus welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Right here in the city of london. I manus cranny area anna and im and edwards. Out at westminster, the polls keep coming in. More polling data this morning. We will talk about the strength ofthe strength or weakness the u. K. Economy as we head toward tomorrows general election. Security continues to be the dominant domestic theme, of course. We will get analysis from Neil Williams who is joining us. Lets check how the markets are doing over in asia. Manus we have a lovely chart in you, but anna is rooted westminster. Our election coverage goes through the day. Will catch up with the managing mori. Or at ipsos thats right here on daybreak. Its go to china, this moment of reprieve in the market. Well talk about that and the risk radar. China had cut their holdings of bonds by the most since the year 2000. This was a drop in their terms of holdings of bonds at the big boys are
Penetrating into all our inland valleys bringing temperatures down into the 50s for most. By midmorning the fog and no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. darya our top story this morning. A south bay swim coach is arrested after asking underage members of his team for nude photos. mark kron 4s Lydia Pantazes is live in san jose this morning with the details. Lydia. lydia police say 25year old Timothy Nguyen formed a bond with the children by talking about swimming classes but that soon turned in a different direction. take vo police say after nguyen earned his Victims Trust he then asked for nude photos or sexual favors from both boys and girls on the quicksilver swim team. The quicksilver swim is a private youth Swimming Organization that operates out of Gunderson High School in south san jose. Nguyen was the assistant coach. He is charged with annoying or molesting a child under 18 and intimida