Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am anna edwards in the city of london. Lets start with a check on the markets. This is how we are doing on the stoxx 600. We did either side of the flat line trading and we are losing around. 1 . A little of performance coming through in the london market as you might expect when you have Oil Prices Going higher by 2. 2 because of the tensions between the u. K. And around in the strait of hormuz. That is the focus for oil traders and they are pushing out some of the oil related businesses listed in london. S p futures point higher. We are a little range bound on these Global Equity markets looking for guidance, looking for the continuation of the equity story. That will come later on this week. Earnings reports from the baking sector. Going to be a lot to talk about. We will be looking for the ecb and the Interest Rate decisions have to make. A little bit later on, mervyn king is going to be joining the bloomberg team. Dont miss that conversation. A
Losing month for 2019, first may decline for 2012 this morning you see modest green arrows s p futures up by 2 points and the nasdaq up by about 9 points. Overnight in asia markets slightly stronger. President trump coming back from japan. You see the nikkei closed up by a third of a percentage point. Similar gains for the hang seng and the shanghai deposit up about 0. 6 in europe its a mixed picture. The ftse up by about a tenth of a percent. Stocks are weaker in it will i and in spain as well if you talk a look at whats been happening in the treasury market in the United States, youll see the tenyear is yeeling, wow, 2. 89 , so below 3 . This morning alibaba deba debating whether to offer new public shares in a second offering, this time to hong kong reported will i they could raise up to 20 billion. Theyre currently working with financial vuzers to offer the listing as early as this year. The Company Initially listed in new york in 2014 raising a record 25 billion shares of alibaba
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Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla at the new york stock exchange. Markets obviously the top story. The nasdaq closes above 7,000 on tuesday for the First Time Ever to kick off the year s p crosses 2700 in todays session. For a moment we were within 100 points of down 25 k. For more bring in senior markets commentator who has switched seats here at post 9 big playbook, strategic thoughts, what are they. Ongoing sweetspot seems it has continued into 2018. Pretty much all these things working for the market, low volatility advance, yesterday a little more energy in the nasdaq, obviously getting above 7,000 with a percent and a half move whats interesting is you have these forces of Global Consumer boom animating the nasdaq nasdaq composite also almost 14 of s p 500 the top five stocks in the s p are the top five in the nasdaq thats actually a newish thing so its very new versus lets say 2,000. On the other side you have this cyclical reflation story working for the