All across the east. Not much of a bounce back as of right now. Lets bring you up to speed on the flight to safety, gold has retreated to the tune of 23 an ounce now are well shy of 1700. But the yield on the ten year treasury, that remains stubbornly near its lows. That indicates the move into safe u. S. Bonds remain intact, 136 on the tenure right now. Move on to politics, the democrats debate tonight right before 7 00 p. M. , at the South Carolina primary, Bernie Sanders will be attacked. Especially after he doubled down on his admiration for fidel castro. Also crunch time for Mike Bloomberg, he can show he could debate, and joe biden has got to show hes up for the fight ahead. As usual in the hectic times, a big show on the way for you, and a moment you will see the president go after cnn, what a putdown it was. Varney company is about to begin. How can you justify to their American People have an acting dean i would note intelligent. First of all i want no help from any country an
More on the big Market Movers but first here is whats brandnew at this hour. President trump about to leave the white house after speaking to members of the National Border patrol council, we will bring you any remarks from the president if he stops to talk to reporters on the south lawn, plus unthinkable Silicon Valley, bigtech heavy weight throwing his support behind President Trump and the verdict is in for Michael Avenatti, the jury reaching decision in the nike extortion is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Oil and gold of the sammy. What is up with you. Where up two weeks in a row and barely in record territory and the dow finishing lower but again were heading into a threeday weekend because of the flu an unknown situation of the coronavirus at this point, many people are selling but not many people are buying and trying to see how things shake out when they returned to work on tuesday. As for the week we are looking at healthcare really makes a lot of and considering
With more. Thank you, andrew the Commerce Ministry said negotiators agreed to canceling tariffs in stretches the additional tariffs or some of them had to go. Also the Ministry Said from beijings perspective, the tariffs needed to be lifted at the same time by the same amount, how much could be negotiated the time and place of the deal signing has yet to be decided. Since then, the state media has been really focused on the point that if the u. S. Wants to have a trade deal, there has to be a removal of tariffs the state meeting says these have to be removed together saying this shows them as equals separately today, the authorities here sentenced nine people to joail including one with a suspended death sentence for smuggling fentanyl into the United States. As a sign that there was some calculated move behind this decision, the commission had said after the sentencing that the decision was made in accordance with the consensus reached between president s xi and President Trump. Sugge
To a weaker dollar and higher yields across the globe. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start with the breaking news in the u. K. The pound is strengthening against the dollar on brexit optimism. Francine lacqua is live at westminster. Give us the lay of the land as we start trading this morning. Francine i have to say, you are absolutely right. You have to look at the currency. Theres this renewed optimism after a lot of ministers say they will be able to pass this first, we dont know whether Boris Johnson will be eight able to push his deal once again through a vote in parliament. Cow in the past has said no because this is the same deal. We could have various moments forcing the Prime Minister to ask for a referendum or forcing the u. K. To stay in the customs union. If it gets amended, word on the ground is that the Prime Mini
Which is crucial for canada. Lets check on the broader markets here in the u. S. For the s p 500, continue to reach above 3000, but just a bit of weakness before the rates decision. The u. S. Dollar index not really moving. We are at 97 92 cents, fairly healthy. Off. 0 year yield on general electric, investors reacting well to this numbers to these numbers. It looks like larry culp is actually delivering. Guy cash flow very solid. Flows off today. It is the banks really doing the damage, mainly Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, santander, all down hard today. That is what is dragging the stoxx 600 away from the 400 line. Eurosterling a little negative right now. Tiering comes into place today for European Banks, plus the restart of that qe program. We are keeping a firm i on both of those stories. The others dry want to mention is the South African rand, absolutely pummeled. The dollar up by 2. 5 . The budget out in cape town today, having a few having a huge impact on the rand today. Vonn