President elect donald trump begins a new political era with a visit to the white house. Ast comes a little later on the republican meets with president obama to discuss the transition. Washington, wall street, and investors watch. Republicans moved to claim a mandate for their agenda of deregulating the Financial Sector and replacing obamacare. As we break down the promises and policies of the Trump Presidency, my guests are Sharon Ohalloran, jim rickards, author of a forthcoming book, one of the few guests that actually called the election, and International Reaction from Michael Fuchs a little later on for what this election means for business as we bring you more interviews. All that is coming up. First lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra in the u. S. , thousands of demonstrators took to the streets overnight to protest Donald Trumps election as president. Demonstrations and vigils have taken place in urban areas as well as smaller cities. T
From there in london. The markets appeared to be settling down and we are joined by outstanding guests today. Led by bill gates. He would join us to talk about biotech and drug pricing. Alix cromwell we be joining us more regulatory hurdles facing the banks. But first, we have a slight rally on the table for today. Jonathan features are firming up about. 2 and the ftse is an positive territory and raising all of the post brexit gains. He dax is up as well i want to talk about what is happening in other asset classes. Boris johnson does not run and cable jumps, the pound a stronger marginally. We will discuss why. 1. 52 . Unchanged at we are heading for the strongest quarter for crude since 2009. To wrap up all of the stories, lets go around the world and check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage of our top stories. Anna redwood is in london on the race to succeed Prime Minister cameron. Julie hyman in new york on the last day of the Second Quarter. Lets begin right here in
Fed kicking off. The worlds most valuable company set to give earnings after the close. We will set up everything you need to know. When it comes to the markets, and ethics story all the way. Low rates river is where the smart rates has been for the last couple of years. In the fx market, weaker pound, stronger yen. Stronger by 1. 36 against the dollar. As the helicopter money fades ahead of the doj decision on the friday. The weaker pound story means a stronger dollar story as well as we carry the last couple of weeks over in the fx market. That stronger market means the brand is down another. 7 , the wti down. Yields coming in to touch, and by two basis points on the 30 year yield. Your yield is 2. 264 on the u. S. 30 year. Alix breaking news. Verizon now with earnings right now. It looks like a beat on the top line bottom line coming in at . 94 a share. Operating revenue coming in light at 30. 5 billion. The Company Buying yahoo . That 4. 8 billion. One number that was really intere
Tom, we had a little bit of eurozone data out. Continue watching a lot of the banks. We are waiting for Standard Chartered. Hsbc all about costcutting. I do not see how that could be a good strategy. Costcutting is front and center but all the focus is away from Standard Chartered on those European Banks. Bid thisbit of a morning. Francine they do a little bit. Certainly some of the stronger banks. Standard chartered coming up, we have to look at pretax, worse than expected. It is the Capital Buffers that investors are watching out before out for. Ct1all, that first half capital ratio 13 13. 1 . Pretax a little bit below. Capitalirst half ct1 ratio 13. 1 . Tom Standard Chartered is an emerging market proxy. Youve got the mexican peso out to to 19. That is all you need to know about emerging markets. Ian markets more than Central America but you make a very good point that this is not really a u. K. Bank. They are headquartered here but it is an asian bank. Lets get to first word news.