Fields in just a few minutes about exactly what it tells about where they are in the First Quarter and with the rest of the year is going to look like. You the ecb bring a. M. Y decision at 7 45 eastern time. Futures be stable out there. S p 500 futures up marginally. Weve pulled further back from se highs alix time for the morning brief. Weekly initial jobless claims in the wholesale inventory the durable goods and the trade balance from march. The treasury will auction 20 billion in sevenyear notes. Finally, today is the busiest day of firstquarter earnings season with 65 Companies Reporting. Weve got alphabet, amazon and starbucks all reporting. Emma President Trump one people pulling the u. S. Out of nafta immediately. The white house as the president ruled out terminating the Free Trade Agreement after talking with the leaders of mexico and canada. Instead, the three countries will renegotiate. Provide an early test for President Trump the taiwanese will submit to the u. S. As an
We have plenty more from the u. K. And the conservative party. And, todays nonfarm payroll figure, a rosy picture of the u. S. Economy . Good morning. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in paris. We have full coverage of the french president ial election. Mark barton is in london. Im looking forward to the conversation with Andreas Dombret. You have our market check, mark. Mark i do. Check out whats happening to european stocks. Big day ahead. The jobs report in the u. S. , the French Election on sunday. Lets have a look at the ftse. Lets have a look at the european benchmark, even better. Highest level since august 2015 yesterday. The big move seems to be continuing in the commodities market. The u. S. 10year is unchanged. Money moving into the yen. It is a riskaverse day today. Oil, lowest level since the backend of last year. The movement down and commodities. Down in commodities continues. Lets get the latest bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra in
We are discussing with joe manchin, the senator from west virginia. It is a big drama. Jonathan as you know very well, there is a big question of whether it is drama or it really affects the world such as markets. Jonathan thank you very much. Lets begin by getting a look at the markets. Looking at futures, this morning. We go nowhere. Up about a 10th of 1 . The euro a little bit weaker. Treasuries on offer at the margin yields, creeping back off those 2017 lows. Alix i am taking a look at dollaryen, a really interesting morning for that currency pair. Exit from a monetary stimulus could be on the agenda at the boj. Dollar caught a bid and now dollaryen up on the day by 2 10 of 1 . Definitely an interesting level to watch. The vix goes nowhere. Well,s where, gold as off by about two dollars. Crude up by 5 10 of 1 . Lets count down to one of the big events. Less than an hour from now, we will hear from the European Central banks latest Monetary Policy decision. It is believed mario drag
About a hard brexit. The boj has to push back its inflation target one more year. Selling on the margin when it comes to the german 10 yield bund. Morning,ming up this 7 45, the important ecb Rate Decision followed by Mario Draghis News Conference 45 minutes after that. Initial jobless claims and the fed survey. At 10 a. M. We will get the indicators. After the bell we will have fourthquarter results from microsoft. Now, lets get an update on headlines outside the business world. Emma a startling admission from the president about jeff sessions. The president tells the New York Times he would not have appointed sessions if he knew that he would recuse himself from the russia investigation. He called sessions decision unfair to the president. The president may take another shot at getting a Health Care Bill passed after the present parish republicans to stay in washington until they repeal obamacare. Republican senators met with the president. Mitch mcconnell still was to hold a vote on
That the plans are wrong. The plans could make it harder four troops and theirfamily to could make it harder four troops and their family to sue the government if something goes wrong in carpet. And steam power, for the first time in almost half a century, a timetabled steam Train Service returns to the english railways. Good morning, its tuesday 14th february. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Donald Trumps National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, has resigned over his contacts with russia. Telephone intercept is show that Michael Flynn, mr Trumps National Security Adviser, had discussed us sanctions with the russian envoy before mr trump took office. Its illegal for private citizens to conduct us diplomacy, and the phone calls happened late last year before mr flynn was appointed to the administration. Before being appointed, he was known for his close ties with the senior russian officials. Here he is sat with President Putin at a dinner in 2015. Hes also been accused of misleading the