Hard place. Theresa mays brexit transition plan is threatened by centuriesold dispute with spain over gibraltar. Good morning, this is bloomberg daybreak europe. Matt miller is here in london. We need to talk about the asian equity session and what weve seen and what weve seen happening in washington even though most people on the east coast in United States should probably be asleep. Theres been plenty of activity in your. A little bit of an industry here feeling about the asian equity session this morning, so no great big movements coming through, but weve seen some substantial movements in the u. S. Treasury market. 2. 45 is where we are at the moment. Sum consists describing this as eyepopping. Something substantial, what is happening . A lot of people trying to work out what it is. Perhaps a realization that with the tax legislation getting closer, maybe that means more borrowing into 2018. As we said in the headlines, the u. S. Senate has voted has passed their version of the bil
In the wake of the tax bill, mostly passed, the dow and s p 500 are now rising. They had been wavering. The nasdaq falling as we see tech stocks under pressure but financials have been getting a list on perception the tax plan will be especially good for them. We have been watching upward momentum on the s p 500. If you look at the bloomberg, this is the ratio of the s p 500 to its 200 day moving average, trading well above that level. In terms of what percentage, by what percentage it is above the 200 day moving average, you can see by that metric, the s p is not necessarily stretched as folks figure out how much more the rally has to go. We have other related movers today. Fedex, speaking of taxes, this company says their profits will be higher than estimated as we see record holiday shipping. It is also potentially going to get more earnings as a result of tax cuts. Blackberry out with its numbers. Winning new customers from government and private firms. Their revenue coming in ahea
The european markets were down a couple minutes ago. They are pretty much back up. It seems the feel good factor in u. S. Stocks have now petered out somewhat. Im looking at u. S. 10 year treasury yields, pretty much a picture of stability. The dollar off the trade bound. The dollar, gaining a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we sit down with luca paolini, the chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management. Thewe will also break down saudi budget with the director of Economic Research at the Gulf Research center. First, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian uber has lost the battle as it differs from traditional taxes. The car hailing app should be regulated. The eu court of justice ruling, think of the president sentting. British officials fear spain will threaten to veto, if negotiatey fails to with madrid. It has been in british hands since, 1713 but spain could make a claim over the land. To the u. N. Assador nikki haley is pressing other countries n
And demand theres so many other factors but right now its holding nicely but david youve seen these markets over the years like you say you have a longer term term view and and we do see opec and other nations russia namely that have their Production One point eight one point eight billion Barrels Per Day that theyre there holding off the market but the u. S. Seems to be making up for that so you do you see the increased u. S. Production keeping sort of a governor on prices. Absolutely i mean the United States has been i mean lets be realistic theyve been knocking the cover off the ball i mean theyre at the highest production rate that theyve ever been you have regulations that are being pulled back like it or not it is what it is and thats going to enable more and more production to be made so i do believe that will be a major factor and keeping somewhat of a cap i dont see except for maybe a world event there an issue in the middle east i mean a major issue a major spike in prices an
When electronic markets come in and the algos kick in there is no way the average person on the trade or ameritrade thats putting their orders and can hit that button and make a decision fast enough to curtail their losses and training is very simple its all about critelli your losses and riding your winners and that makes it very difficult you know when markets go down they go down fast when they go up they can go up fast too so its a double edged sword David Greenberg founder dreamer a catheter executive Committee Member of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the path thank you for joining us david. Thank you good to see you. And more energy when we return but as we go to break markets continue their curious correction the dow when just Dow Jones Industrial average dropped by one thousand one hundred Seventy Eight points today thats following fridays six hundred sixty point one we saw the largest intraday dow drop in history in history keep in mind that the dow was up in january year