Warning from russian president Vladimir Putin to north korea as he uses his speech at the become r ishgbric summit good morning we have a lot to get through lets kick things off with a look at the markets. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 3 , recovering from yesterdays small losses to the tune of 0. 5 yesterday we were under the spell of the latest aggression coming out of north korea, but it seems like were moving on today. When it comes to the insdices on by one, when it comes to the ftse, dax and cac, theyre all in the green the xetra dax is eking out a gain of respectable 0. 6 merck is one of the top performers there the ftse 100 up by 0. 3 . We have that big m a deal this morning which is pushing the mid cap index higher aveva jumping nicely there, up by more than 20 schneider doing well on the french market. When it comes to the sectors, this is the picture autos, foods, beverages, basic resources among the best f performers quick look at the latest data out of the eurozone eurozone aug
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. My name is rick jones, vicepresident and director of the program here a the brookings. Its my pleasure to welcome you for todays event hosted by the brookings center. This event is part of expanding with our partnership with the brookings transatlantic initiative. This is a multiyear platform that will spur a range of new activities not only on global issues, but that the transatlantic partners can get together. Were grateful they recognize that the value that brookings brings to this is our in depth high quality and independent research. Were pleased to be able to announce a fellow that will be joining us and add capacity to our team in answering questions in the relationship and as you see in todays discussions those are substantial. Challenges faced in europe are numerous from an upsurge in nationalism and populism to turmoil following the brexit decision and concerns after the financial crisis and gre
Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. My name is rick jones, vicepresident and director of the program here a the brookings. Its my pleasure to welcome you for todays event hosted by the brookings center. This event is part of expanding with our partnership with the brookings transatlantic initiative. This is a multiyear platform that will spur a range of new activities not only on global issues, but that the transatlantic partners can get together. Were grateful they recognize that the value that brookings brings to this is our in depth high quality and independent research. Were pleased to be able to announce a fellow that will be joining us and add capacity to our team in answering questions in the relationship and as you see in todays discussions those are substantial. Challenges faced in europe are numerous from an upsurge in nationalism and populism to turmoil following the brexit decision and concerns after the financial crisis and great exit crisis, slow growt
We will make it through and stand together and be united. Host of course. Thank you for your time, congresswoman. A forum on us transit atlantic relations as european Foreign Policy experts talk about europes approach to russian aggression, trade, immigration and relations with the United States on these topics. The Brookings Institution is the host of this event. Thank you for joining us here. My name is bruce jones, Vice President of the Foreign Policy here at brookings and my pleasure to welcome you here today for todays event hosted by the Brookings Center on the United States and europe in collaboration with the robert. [inaudible] this event is part of our expanding partnership. This is a multi Year Research program and platform that will spur a range of new activities that will spur on debate not only on the relationships but on global issues the transatlantic partners can touch together and work on together. We are very grateful to bosch for the support of this initiative and w
It has got for Sports Companies later this hour. Have a look at where european equities are trading right now. We are under 30 minutes away from the end of the wednesday session. Stocks are rising for a consecutive fifth day, the best run since september 12, the highest run for the stoxx 600 since july 19. All of these currencies falling against the dollar, bond yields gaining. Some Corporate News to tell you h utility fortum could turn into europes biggest acquisition. For a deal were e. On the offer of 22 euros per share of all unit per investors. Niper is thebuy upi biggest plan since germany split their utilities in 2016. Shares are down one half of 1 . A tough month for precious metals. Buying as little as. 71 ounce of gold on tuesday. That is the least going back to 1987. Taking a hit for diesel cars is compounding the impact for the diverting and diverting some investors from metals. That is the focus of that chart. More thanrst time in a year, local currency and egyptian bonds