Giving a little bit of a lift to your markets. I am looking at the u. S. 10year yields now coupled with this truce around these trade tensions is weaker than expected factory numbers. Watch out for that. , 1387. See gold down manufacturing pmi below estimates at 47. 6. Than what the preliminary reading was. We speak to Joseph Oughourlian. The best opportunities to find value. Lets get to bloomberg first word news. Hi, francine. Deutsche bank may cut more than a fifth of its workforce. It would be the lenders shakeup in years. They may approve the loss as many as 20,000 jobs. They were working on tough cutbacks after failed merger talks. Trump coming the first sitting u. S. Leader to set foot inside north korea. He met with kim jongun at the militarized zone at the demilitarized zone. He said stepping across the border was a great honor. He also invited kim to visit the white house. Closer to becoming the next European Union commissioner. President donald two skids trying to shore up th
The drumbeats loader for rate cuts. Southeast asian leaders walking a fine line in the simmering trade war. We will bring you more from the meeting in bangkok and more with the Prime Minister of malaysia. Looking at how markets closed, it was a turbulent session not only because we saw the iranu. S. Tensions escalate but because futures and options expired on the same day on quadruple witching day. So at one point it was an intraday record high but then we thought ending. 1 down lower. Led by real estate firms. The dow falling. 1 as well after touching a high we have not seen since october. We had Energy Stocks gaining ground, the biggest on the s p 500 as we saw wti gain 10 last week on middle east tensions. At. Futures not doing much the moment. Lets see how we are shaping up. Sophie on friday asian stocks faltered but the benchmark managed to pull through with the best week of gains since january and this monday we have a lackluster start ahead for asian shares, kiwi under pressure.
Arrivedtwitter ahead of trade talks, raising the presence among the american people. Shery later in Bloomberg Technology global link, ibm closely 34 billion purchase of red hat, sealing the worlds secondlargest tech deal ever. Will this help ibm catch up in Cloud Services . We will discuss. First, a quick check of how the markets closed in the u. S. The s p 500 pushing higher. In the last hour or so of trading after fluctuating between gains and losses. We have fang stocks meeting the gains. We saw some declines when it came to the consumer staples. Not to mention material stocks that led the gains. We have the dow unchanged at the toent, falling slightly down 26,783. Investors still bracing for powells testimony to the house tomorrow and the senate on thursday. Lots of Central Bank News this week. Fed minutes on wednesday, ecb minutes on thursday, and Inflation Numbers on thursday. For the time being, we are seeing u. S. Futures unchanged. Investors being cautious at the moment. Lets
Socks are in the green but they are off their session highs. The dow was up more than 250 points at one point. Now about 80 points lower. The s p hit a in record for the first time in more than seven weeks. Yes, kelly, it has been seven whole weeks. It was kind of fast come to think of it. Markets are reacting as President Trump comments on iran lets get the latest from eamon javers at the white house. Thats right. Earlier in the day, the president had sort f a belligerent sounding response. The president suggesting to reporters that youll soon find out what the u. S. Response would be tweeting out that iran made a big mistake here, but then in the oval office sitting alongside trudeau, the president said this. I find it hard to be it was intentional. If you want to know the truth. It could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it. Well be able to report back and youll understand exactly what happened, but it was a very foolish move the president many there suggesting it
Leak somewhere. Officials are trying to figure out exactly where it is and what is causing it. If you travel to livermore or the ultimate on the eighth train, you need to find another way to get to work this morning, because it will not be on the ace trains. Main travel times, everything seems to be moving along well on highway 4. Slowininthe westbound direction of highway 4, thats a 20 minute ride, excuse me, thats the eastshore freeway. Highway 4 is good to go and including the alltime on pass. We are seeing slowing go conditions, 42 minute ride and last but not least, the san mateo bridge is really slow and theres something stalling things out in the middle lane in the mid span, theyre trying to move that out of the way, but it is really pretty much just a dead stop in the westbound direction. We are at the live news desk and we have new video coming out of memphis tennessee where there were violent clashes with police last night. 24 Police Officers were injured, six of them had to