Rest of 2017 . With Central Banks, shifting into neutral. The sweetest central Swedish Central Bank signaling the end sparkhreeyear effort to inflation. We will get a decision at 8 30 a. M. London time. Cash is about to open. We are half an hour away from the stock start of stock trading. We are getting an idea of where we will start the day and the fair value points to a negative start. 51 . Y. 5 of 1 . I want to move on, we will see what the yens reaction to the news, hes of piece of north koreas missile they launched was an icbm. We will see what the experts have to say. But we have got is the yen down up by. 5 of 1 . Interesting to see how this works its way through the session, looks to be firming against the dollar. The aussie dollar is down, some people had anticipated the rba would follow a more hawkish stance. That has not been the case and the aussies down. Begins strengthening now, continuing to strengthen on the back of this news that north korea said it fired an icbm. The
The spectrum. We look at Asset Classes and gold and yen and, looking, of course, the geopolitics. In the meantime, this is what the data is telling us. A reminder for all of you americans, it is Independence Day. The markets in the u. S. Are closed, which means we are seeing a little bit thin trading, a selloff in risky assets globally as north korea claimed a successful Intercontinental Missile launch. Havens both advancing. You can see the vix a touch up at 11. 22. We will have plenty more on the markets but lets get to the first word news. Nejra speaking of risky assets, oil has halted gains after the longest winning streak after rude shows that opecs c production rose to its highest level in june. The increase came from libya and nigeria which are exempt from making cuts under the deal agreed between opec and its allies. Janet yellen was hospitalized over the weekend and luncheon for treatment of a Minor Infection and is heading home. Yellen was admitted on friday and released yest
Markets and rates. First word news here is emma chandra. The white house is firing back at msnbc for releasing details of President Trumps tax returns. He paid 38 million in tax rates of 150 million. The white house said you know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to publish two pages of tax returns. At the whitemp met house with the saudi deputy afterwards, and saudi adviser says there is a significant shift in relationships. In europe, the netherlands is voting today on the measure of the first spread of populism. The antiislam candidate, Geert Wilders, once the netherlands to pull out of the European Union and to hold immigration. The Prime Minister, mark rutte, says he will not enter an alliance with Geert Wilders. China says they will keep opening its doors and they notice that bilateral trade and investment created a million jobs in the u. S. Last year. Global news, 24 hours a day. Powered by our more than 2600 journalists and analysts, in more
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