You really meant that today. I had a long week. So did you. I did, indeed. Happy friday from me as well. Im wilfred frost. Straight to the market action. Erring earnings in a minute, first a scary moment at Laguardia Airport last night. The Campaign Plane carrying Vice President ial nominee mike pence skidded off the runway after landing in heavy rain. Emergen Emergency Personnel evacuated everybody on board. Nobody was injured. The plane did not strike any of the fencing and was never in danger of going into the water. Later this morning, governor pence will join the team of squawk box in the studio live at 8 00 a. M. I landed in laguardia last night around the same time that governor mike pence did. Then they closed the airport, and had a full grand stop. It was very rainy, wet, skittish. A bit. Delighted that everybody nobody has been hurt. Delighted to be back. And you had a safe landing. Lets check in on the Global Market action. Futures are looking a bit soft, down about 5 points
London. Because we aret have one ofand we the biggest in europe and the Largest Hotel operator. Withuch has this delivered 244 million . Miss is a little bit of a against estimates. Ceo has been in the post and they have been revamping instead of cutting costs in china. It is taking on some the upscale brands and requires a Hotel Reservation services. That is the background. We have a host of other reports. Lets talk about the markets. The markets have risen for three straight days. Before we went on the christmas holidays, i want to show you the breakdown of the relationship and this is the ironclad thetionship and they are euro stoxx 50 and they are all at a panic in correlation with the fever pitch and the 15 year high is dropping. Sync, asfalling out of you said. During the panic, they had been moving in sync and they are reducing among the assets. Is thes been happening four days do not make a year. It is four days of hope. Lets check in on the risk and see what is happening in ma
Life from bloombergs European Headquarters here in london. I am Francine Lacqua. First of all, lets check the markets. This is the picture for european stocks. Their signaling that the Investor Conference remains quite low as you can see. The stoxx 600 opening lower. The gain is still quite subdued. A little bit of movement on yen. 1. 07half hour ago, it was it was 107. Authorities are trying to dampen speculation that the yen will continue rising. Copper atshow you. 47 . Cameron will face lawmakers later over scrutiny. It comes after the publishing of six years of taxing. Minister alsoime admitted his handling of the scandal has not been great. I know that i shouldve handled this better. I couldve handled this better. I know there are lessons to learn and i will learn them. Do not blame number 10 downing street or nameless advisors. Blame me. I will learn the lesson. Caroline Standard Chartered is seeking to sell assets in asia. It is part of a plan by the london placed after booking
And that is euro area april services pmi rising at 53. 2. We were expecting a figure of 53. 3. We have the services. We also need to look at manufacturing. That is also a touch, almost in line with expectations. Falling to 51. 5. We had forecast a 51. 9 figure. Maybe that will be disappointment for mario draghi. We will keep a close eye on. Lets look at currencies. Because we may have a little bit of impact from this loss of confidence in eurodollar. 1. 1283. We are looking at daimler and volkswagen. Ryan chilcote is on the ground for any breaking news. European stocks are down. We will talk about japan. To talk about negative rates on loans and the impact that has on currency. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Nejra president obama has urged britain to reject a socalled brexit from the e. U. He says the European Union does not moderate it magnifies it. While the u. K. Faces many of the same challenges as the u. S. Including migration, economic inequality and terrorism, t
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