An hour ago. Assad reportedly organized the barrel bombing of syrian towns and just this morning, north korea Supreme Leader vowing to quote wipe out south korea and the United States without a trace, if any war act is committed. Former u. S. Ambassador to russia is also the former deputy secretary general for nato. Alex is standing by on whether this war of words will turn into one of action. What did President Trump hear during his listening session with some of the countrys biggest and most powerful ceos . The topics of trade, infrastructure, and job creation also tackle. But will a congress continue to stand in the way of the president s agenda . House budget chairman diane black has been on the front lines of the biggest meeting this past month here in two minutes. And President Trump First Business tv interview since his inauguration just concluded moments ago Maria Bartiromo landed, shes getting into the chair to reveal a preview. Plus, that scream heard around the world. No. Th
Moscow. Cracking down on illegal immigration, attorney general Jeff Sessions talking tough from the mexican border, talking this a new era under president trump. What he is asking of all federal prosecutors, that is now. Among our guests this hour, bret baier, dan henninger, Texas Attorney general ken paxton, chris harmer and mercedes colwin. A lot of good ones. David a packedded hour of good stuff. Meanwhile the dow ending down just 6 , 6 , six points. It actually came well off its lows during the day and, in the last couple of minutes, ended almost in the flat line. Lets go straight to gerri willis at the new york stock exchange. Gerri, it was way down, and then kicking its way back today. We did have a bit of a turnaround here david, thats right. The words are on the lips of all traders down here, geopolitical risk. If it is not syria, it is russia, it is north korea. One headline traders said they were trading on today, one from donald trump. This is his quote. North korea is looki
We will be tuesday or wednesday of next week. That is an uncertainty the markets dislike. Francine no one likes risk in this kind of environment. October manufacturing, pmi rising that are then estimated. We will have pound and euro check shortly. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Bankersmost british really that london will remain the Financial Center even after the country leaves the European Union. 72 of banker say london will maintain his role as the Financial Hub for at least five years. The eu and u. K. Will be hurt by brexit. Forecast is that mark carney will not change Interest Rates while he is governor of the bank of england. Mark carney says he will stay in the job until june of 2019, one year longer than planned. Will keep the benchmark unchanged while the u. K. Is negotiating brexit. South korea government shakeup over a peddling scandal. The president fired her premier and finance minister. Neither was directly linked to the investigation, but she appears to be tr
Equity board. S p 500 futures negative not even a 10th of 1 . Minors leading the losses. Switch of the board. All eyes on crude. Inching to the 50 mark. Wti 48. This is what i am looking at in the fx market. A dollar on the front foot. Switch the board and get to this. 14483. One pound, camp. The remaining 37 in the leave. The referendum is ahead on june 23. That is when we are now where you get one pool and you get the spike. Lisa it wasnt one single pole, there was building up to this. Jonathan a bit of momentum may be. David now lets go around the world and check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage of our top stories. Mike is an anchor of bloomberg surveillance radio. Cooks first trip to india. Matts house and joins us. Lets begin now with mike. This is the feds april meeting that and minutes of the fans april meeting are out today. , what are we looking at . Michael they have been trying to talk the markets of present time and we are finally getting some reaction. Inves
Major averages are lower. Dipping dealing as low as a 1 decline, but all three still lower as we have concerns about Central Banks effectiveness in fighting global slowdowns. Not giving aspan much stimulus as had been anticipated. Franko heard from the fed kaplan who questioned the effectiveness of monetary tools or the difficulty in using monetary tools. If you look at the threemark ix, itmonth chart of the v shows it is the highest it has been going back to the period surrounding the u. K. Vote to leave the european union. If you look at other assets, the is seeing an uptick or gold futures are rising for the sixth straight session, and crude oil futures are trading lower. That is how this macro view is playing out. Lets go back to stocks. Transportation a huge drag. Delta going down after unit valley value fell. Royal caribbean lower after its earnings report, and forward, not technically in the transportation average, but it makes stuff that gets you place. They came out with july