Inister moments ago. Caroline he is back to make an grem to put to the u. K. Voters. He will only do a deal if it is what britain needs. If get what is the u. K. Needs. The pound trading lower versus the dollar at the moment. Tom we welcome you to our first word news. A couplor headlines crossing bloomberg now about the u. S. Government. The u. S. Government memo shows world strategy to access phone data. The white house is having meetings on encryption. Well continue to update you on that. The meeting in brussels, the british Prime Minister is pleading far deal that he can take to british voters. Eastern european leaders dont ike his demands. Plans to protect londons financial industry. Rance is willing to relax pope francis is willing to relax birth pposition to control. The u. S. Says that defeating the Islamic State is the overwhelming prort. A new Bloomberg Politics pole shows that Hillary Clinton holds a commanding leevered Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. A 31 lead among africa
Have left its promise unfulfilled . For the next hour, youll find out on the africa opportunity. In africa, the optimism is infectious. The Natural Resources seem limitless. The population is young, growing, and educated. Yet today, the africa rising narrative is in doubt. Squeezed and Foreign Investors are pulling back. Is there a bull case to be made for africa . That is one of the questions we sought to answer in cape town. President ald caprica, of the African Development bank and now advises pdg, and sudanese billionaire. It is tough to make decisions for some countries, but africa has been there before. People misunderstand what has been happening with this continent. 1990 was known as the lost decade or 10 years of mayhem and decline occurred. 0 two today, african economies are larger. Now that is not going away because of the crisis. Example, the an fourth fastestgrowing countries in africa today have no fiscal dependence on commodities. There are a number of countries that hav
Essentially may pay them to lend and that the dax would drop, you would have locked me out of the room, but that is what happened yesterday. David we have someone to explain it all to us. Our very special guest is Mohamed Elerian. We think of him as a bloomberg columnist. Welcome back. It is good to have you here. Mohammed co. Wonderful mohamed wonderful to be here. Jon the republican caroline the republican president ial candidates stayed away from namecalling. Trump said his campaign has been a positive force. Frankly,ump i think the republican establishment or whatever you want to call it should embrace what is happening. We are having millions of extra people join. We are going to beat the democrats. We are going to beat hillary or whoever it may be, and we are going to beat them soundly. Caroline trump his favorite to win primaries next tuesday in florida and ohio. With getting a boost former candidate ben carson agreeing to endorse him. The Islamic State is expanding its presence
The eu wants to fasttrack asylum decisions in greece and the wants of turkey. They are throwing another 3. 4 billion, but it has watered down earlier assurances for turkey to join the eu. Dilmaters are angry that rousseff has added luiz inacio da dilva to her cabinet. Turning to the ncaa tournament, how many haveder entered in our bloomberg brackets. Has comes the ivy league. Yale upset baylor. It is their first appearance in the tournament since 1962. We saw a mixed session. The shanghai capping off its best week in june. Month, the 10 year , stocks bouncing around a little bit. Oil prices had been putting pressure on Energy Producers in europe. Taking a u. S. Feet taking a it means. S. Futures, that we are now year today positive. This is the fastest recovery we have seen at the beginning of a year according to bloomberg data. There is a lot of debate over whether it is justified. Pound weakness as well. Not much change in the dollar versus the yen. We have been have a ring of this l
Across bloomberg hd, the idea of europe with 0 inflation or deflation right now underscoring where we are. We will have that as our single best chart this morning. Right now we need our single best news. Here is vonnie quinn. Vonnie rising 0 , a scary proposition. Thesenate make sharing Senate Making sure the u. S. Will not default on its debt. Of 80ases budget caps billion over two years. Hascentral bank of japan kept its Monetary Policy unchanged even though inflation is not going above the 2 target. Oil prices fell in december for the second straight month. More than a dozen countries are wrapping up the most ambitious attempt yet to end syria civil war. John kerry was one of those trying to broker an end. Attempts to find a political solution has have been stepped up. After aees are dead boat trying to reach turkey sank overnight. The rescue came one day after the countrys coast guard rescue 242 refugees after sinking. View when says 400,000 migrants, many of them from syria, have