Weakness at the french retail unit hits Third Quarter profit. And game on for unisoft after it blows past Second Quarter sales forecasts. We are roughly one hour into the trading session. Lets see how things are opening up a bit of a soggy day in line with what we saw in u. S. Equities yesterday having a bit of a down day the picture is mixed behind me a bit more red than green on the heat map which points to an overall performance of the stoxx 600 which is underwhelming lets look at how individual sectors are doing. Ftse 100, treading around that 0 mark. Slightly in the green. Xetra dax also really treading around the flat line we did have earnings earlier on. Well get into that in more detail shortly i want to point out ftse mib is down 0. 5 . We did have some weaker results out of one of the banks there. Banco bpm is down 5 or so in early trading. Lets look at asian markets. Clearly a lot of focus on this trump is in the region meeting with various leaders nikk nikkei, a bit of a we
A gain of 115 points expected if we were to open here s p is indicated up by 8 points. The nasdaq up by 31 points overnight in asia, youll see that the market theres also ended higher with the nikkei up a third of a percentage point. The hang seng up 0. 8 . The shanghai up 0. 59 . And the kospi up 0. 84 in europe this morning, you will see similar moves. Gains across the board there the dax is up by 0. 55 so is the cac. Ftse up by 0. 8 . If you check out wti, crude oil, 50. 27 wti for july broke a fourmonth losing streak. Had its best month since april 2016 look at the dollar index, the dollar index saw its worst month since 2016 dollar is stronger against the euro and yen trading at 1. 1813 and the dollar yen at 110. 34 fifth negative month in a row. Lets get you through some big stories. The s p 500 will start excluding companies that have multiple classes of shares. The move bars snap from the index. The Company Offering new investors a class of common stock with no Voting Rights. T
Washington journal. Joining us later is Margaret Brennan from cbs news and Jonathan Karl, the chief White House Correspondent for abc news. Tell me about how it played. Guest there are basically two sean spicers. The one who gave the statement on saturday was defiant and angry, basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. Today, he was much more notable, taking questions and stated there for more than an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. When he was asked about the mistruths he had stated about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. He said i always try to come here with truthful information and im going to endeavor to do this in the future and talked about how to donald trump is chafing at what he sees as an unfair media narrative out to undermine his presidency. I saw it the same way. Weve all dealt with the Good Cop Bad Cop situation as reporters, but it is rare to have it from the same person within th
Washington journal. Joining us later is Margaret Brennan from cbs news and Jonathan Karl, the chief White House Correspondent for abc news. Tell me about how it played. Guest there are basically two sean spicers. The one who gave the statement on saturday was defiant and angry, basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. Today, he was much more notable, taking questions and stated there for more than an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. When he was asked about the mistruths he had stated about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. He said i always try to come here with truthful information and im going to endeavor to do this in the future and talked about how to donald trump is chafing at what he sees as an unfair media narrative out to undermine his presidency. I saw it the same way. Weve all dealt with the Good Cop Bad Cop situation as reporters, but it is rare to have it from the same person within th
Joining us later is Margaret Brennan from cbs news and Jonathan Karl, the chief White House Correspondent for abc news. I him pleased to have all of them here. Tell me about how it played. Guest there are basically two sean spicers. The one who gave the statement a couple of days ago on saturday was defiant and angry, basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. Today, he was much more notable, taking questions and stayed up there for more than an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. When he was asked about the mistruths he had stated about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. He said i always try to come here with truthful information and im going to endeavor to do this in the future and talked about how donald trump is chafing at what he sees as an unfair media narrative out to undermine his presidency. Charlie damien . Damien we have all dealt with the Good Cop Bad Cop situation as reporters, but it is r