Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua. These are your markets. A lot of these european stocks higher at the opening. Now they are down a touch. Lets call it flat. I am looking at oil. A lot of the picture is contingent surrounding iran so you see a little bit of a lift up for american crude. What is going on with these european markets and you are seeing it reflected in yen. Yen is the one story that is the haven. Any risk attitude is reflected on yen. European stocks, a lot of investors are looking at these amounting into political risks. Ifore getting some figures. The german index, 97. 4. We get up around we get the with hernan a cristerna. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. The drumbeat for Federal Reserve rate cut is getting louder. Minneapolis fed president says he called for a reduction at last weeks meeting. These comments reinforcing expectations the central bank is on course to cut rates. Trump says he would be able to demote fed chairman if he wanted to
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Tk, welcome back. Tom it is good to be here. It is jobs day. Im ready to go. I had my wheaties. Jonathan is that a serial . Tom it is a cereal. Lisa had fruit loops. Lisa lucky charms. Jonathan they should come with a health warning. Lets talk about amazon and apple. Apple meeting expectations after the close. Amazon is higher by 9 in the premarket, beating a raise from amazon. Evercore taking the price target from 150 to 190. Tom amazon with the pandemic and secondguessing about there is a national crisis, we delivered the boxes, we need to died in and to what we need to do. They did. Baeza went to run the Washington Post and the new guy came in. The new guy is the first real glimpse of postcovid amazon. Jonathan evercore calling this quarter and unlock for the stock. As of the stock needed it given the doubledigit gains we have had so far. Lisa that is the reason why it is bolstering the Overall Index returns even though apple is more soggy and losing is 3 trillion moniker im looking
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Earthquake rocked taiwan. Thousands of buildings collapsed trapping people inside. You are looking at new video of the destruction and hearing firsthand accounts of the people who survivorred that shaking. For me, it is a long time. And, it is long. It is the islands most powerful tremor in at least 25 years. Four people are dead so far, more than 50 people injured. But those numbers are expected to rise. The worst of the damage in the Eastern County of hualien hit around 8 00 a. M. Local time. We have a lot to get to, tonight. A flight from taipei landed late this evening and a lot of people on the flight immediately picked up their phones, tried to reach loved ones back home. Reporter yeah, of course, they were in the air when the earthquake happened. But they landed, they saw the news and immediately were worried so of course, they checked in with their friends and family. A powerful 7. 4 magnitude earthquake struck on the east coast of taiwan early wednesday morning. It was felt ac