Nejra welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Francine lacqua is in helsinki at the nordic business form. First, lets check in on the markets. European equities turning negative of the stoxx 600. The 10 year yield moves lower after jumping ive basis points yesterday. So a little bit of risk off in terms of equities and yield. But the weaker dollar suggests there might still be optimism out there. Conflicting headlines ahead of the trade talks. Francine lacqua is at the Nordic Business Forum. Do not miss her interview with the ceo and founder of zuckerberg media. Thats coming up just after 9 30 a. M. And later, francine will speak to finlands economic minister just after 9 45 a. M. U. K. Time. Lets get first word news. To force kurdish militants away from the region, turkey has launched a military incursion into syria. Four years them and kara for ankara has fought and says it will not allow the kurdish protostate on the border. When asked what President Trump would do if turkey wiped out th
Senators have been debating this bill since last night. Passing it would be a legislative victory and a political one. These republican lawmakers are very well aware they have not passed a single law under President Trump and this could cost them eventually at the polls partly why they are so determined to reach a deal. The senate has started debate on a 1. 5 trillion tax reform bill. This is our once in a generation opportunities to take more money out of washingtons pocket and put money into the pockets of hard working families. Reporter Senate Leaders would like a final vote this week, although they are revising the bill. One provision would trigger new taxes if the proposal doesnt grow the economy as planned. Others want to make up the deficit with spending cuts instead. And two senators say they want to reduce the cuts to corporate taxes. If we have to have some kind of trigger to ensure some of our members that arent quite as confident of that, i think it will be a trigger that w
Since may. Nasdaq is down for six out of the last eight sessions. Youre talking about elevated levels for all of these indices. The nasdaq is still above 6,000. Dow is at 21,320 again, you can see things actually picking up as we sit here talking about it. Dow futures indicated up by 8 points keep talking. Here are the big stories were watching the manager of the worlds Biggest Hedge Fund sounding off on Monetary Policy ray dalio says the actions of Global Central Bankers suggests the low rate cycle is ending soon he said our responsibility now is to keep dancing but closer to the exit and with a sharp eye on the tea leaves you remember the last time somebody talked about dancing. That bugs me. Dalio said he was less concerned about a debt bubble because of Balance Sheet deleveraging. The department of Homeland Security and fbi says hackers are targeting Nuclear Power stayings and other Energy Facilities the attacks have targeted people who have direct access to Critical Systems that c
Want and fix obamacare and move onto tax cuts. Its a contentious legislative schedule, but it has begun. Second headline, you might not like the president s style, but you like his handling of the economy, surprise, surprise. Its up sharply in a month. Who knew. Republicans must unite to get it done. Democrats have to be careful about blocking trumps popular economic policies. And for investors, the trump rally is still on hold. Politics and money, thats what we do. Varney company is about to begin. It is obamacare gone because we repeal all of those taxes, those mandates, those subsidies, theres nothing left there. And instead, we give them the same tax break that we give workers at big businesses, its obamacare light, it retains a significant part of obamacare, retains the cadillac tax. Retains a form of the individual mandate, instead of paying the government youre going to pay the Insurance Company, but it also creates a new federal Entitlement Program and gives it permanent increa
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Weve got breaking news. We want to get right to it. That is a live look at the hijacked egyptairplane, sitting on the tarmac. The hijacker is reportedly carrying explosives and making demands. Rehema ellis has the latest. This situation has been unfolding all night and into the morning. Authorities say the hijackers motive appears to be of a personal nature, not terrorism. Nonetheless, Officials Say they cant take any risk and theyre proceeding with extreme caution. Reporter egyptair flight ms181, from alexandria, was hijacked. An early hopeful sign, most passengers, including women and children, were allowed to get off the plane, leaving the hijacker, plane crew, one Security Officer and three foreigners on board. Eight americans originally on the flight, according to egypts civil aviation. Not clear if t