Strike. Plus prison break mexicos top drug lord escapes gaol for a second time hello there, that planned meeting of all e. U. Leaders on the future of greece has been cancelled. The eurozone finance minister are meeting right now to discuss the latest greek bail out proposal. The greek government has less than 24 hours to convince creditors that it can be trusted to enact programed reforms and secure the bailout. In an apparent uturn on saturday, the Greek Parliament backed a list of Economic Reforms and further austerity measures in a last ditch attempt to stay within the eurozone. Athens asked for 54 billion euros to cover the debt for three years, some analysts believe it needs more. The new lone would be in addition to the 240 billion euros that greece received from its creditors since 2010. We have our correspondents covering the story, Jacky Rowland is in brussels and John Psaropoulos is in brussels. We know what is going n, john trying to get talks going. Lets look at what is on
At 1. 9s coming in billion. Investment banking revenue at 1. 3 8 billion. We will discuss later in the hour. Well get Goldman Sachs. David time for the morning brief. We will give you you as production data. The greek Prime Minister will be visiting the white house today. There will be a joint News Conference at 1 30 this afternoon. At 3 00 we will get an idea of how the fourth round of nafta investigations have gone on. President trump will deliver a major policy speech on tax reform tonight in washington. Thats coming up at 7 30 this evening eastern time. In the u. K. Data came out showing the highest inflation right in more than five years in september. Increasing the odds for boe policymakers to raise rates for the first time in a decade. Earlier this morning mark carney reiterated the bank expects inflation to peak above 3 around october. After the data came out the pound raced in advance. Hsbcrevised forecast expects the pound to reach 135 of from the initial call of 120. Now we
Catalysts and information to shift through. Julie youthink would think that those would be bearish. They have made an intraday high. Earlier, they did touch and intraday record. 2175. 79. T if they close at this level it. Ould be a closing record we did to get underwhelming stimulus from the bank of japan. We got gdp for last quarter, one. 2 percent expansion. Stocks were lower, but are now holding relatively well. He dow is down by two points looking at the s p 100 you have the fifth straight monthly gain come up by 5 . That is if you look at the onemonth activity. Even though today we are not seeing change, and we have traded sideways, still, records are happening. Focusing on oil, what is the tally . Julie oil has not done well. It has been the worst month going back to last july. A 17 decline. Going to june 8, the high for the year come you have a 19. 5 pullback. Oil is close to reentering a bear market. They have bounced intraday sessions. The dollar has gone lower, but it is boun
There are hundreds or thousands of folks from your states involved as well. What i want to do is talk briefly about the threat which is a very real threat. I take it seriously and i know all who are here will take it seriously as well, and that threat is why i support the basic pillars of the president s fourpoint Initiative Announced two wednesdays ago. Im going to talk about that, the president s four points briefly. But whatever want to dig into with, i hope you will see my passion coming through my wonkiness because im going to dig into this in a significant way, is a series of six reasons why i think it is absolutely critical legally, or president reasons, for the reputation of our institution, and especially for the servicemen and women we are asking to risk their lives, i think it is critical that congress complete the authorization that it began last week when a boat on the army of moderate elements in syria. It is critical that congress do this. If were going to engage this mi
Drought in the state of california. Manus cranny is in paris with highlights of his excuses interview with greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. First, lets get right to the top stories we are following this thursday. A number of americans filing for on a plummet benefits is that a 15year low. Claims averaged 282,000 a week over the past month, the fewest since june 2000. That raises a key question. Was the worst than expected jobs report last week an anomaly . According to the labor department, the u. S. Economy created 126,000 jobs in march. Data out this week showed job openings at a 14year high. Consumer confidence has climbed to the highest level in almost eight years according to the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index. Americans view the economy in a more favorable light and said it was a better time to spend. That pickup in confidence could signal a rebound in demand. Mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest levels in two months. Last fridays weaker than expected jobs report