At 110. 18. Asian markets were volatile or a little mixed mother has to do with the trade war and how markets interpret whether we are closer to the deal. 1. 7u. S. 10 year yield at flat. Coming up we speak to jim oneill, former commercial secretary of the treasury, that kingdom conversation in just a couple of minutes. Lets get to the first word news in new york city. U. K. , the chief rabbi suggest people avoid voting for the labour party due to antisemitism, he says sanctions from the top. He is not calling on people to vote labour party, but he says british are concerned about a labour government, and the labour party says antisemitism has no place in the party or society. The president claims donald covered by president ial immunity, but he has been ordered to testify to the panel as it investigates, carrie lam isong, not offering any new concessions in her first Public Comment after prodemocracy forces won a landslide election. Lam is calling for dialogue in line with the plan sh
Amazing run coming into the month of march. Strength and energy, software, industrials, banks are all driving a pretty modest s p 500 rally, but one again that gets us near record highs. Here is the s p recovering from our morning dip. Small caps outperforming the closing high on the s p 500 it is just that one just about 5175, we are within five points of that. Despite sharp losses, supermicro and microstrategy are out performing down slightly on the day. They are still near a three month high with the Federal Reserve meeting now underway, culminating tomorrow. That takes us to the talk of the table that will tape. Can the market continued levitation act. And how high are the stakes now writing on the fence decision and policy message coming in less than 24 hours. Lets turn to liz and sanders. First, some thoughts. It is good to see you. How are you . All right. You have been noting the ravel of churn and leadership shifts under the service of the index deal. The s p 500 has flattened
This week alone up 33 basis points. Tom this week alone, history made. I think you will see over the weekend, how do we go back. Maybe we go back to 1870. The summation of four weeks of moving his history making. Jonathan need to look at the curve as well how things involved evolved. Lisa that to me is what i looked at, the fact that it moved to the opposite direction of what people thought. The long and would move down to the front and the front and would move down to the long end and you would get a flat or lower curve. Yesterday fed jay powell said it does not seem to be inflation, it is something else. It doesnt seem like we are overly restrictive. There seems to be a fear in his not only in their control. That is sort of a people are pricing into the market but still theres a chance of another rate hike. I do not know whether that matters. You saw the yields go higher after that speech. Jonathan policy is not too tight. Tom yeah, it is getting restrictive. We look at the numbers 2
Lisa heading into a week of important inflation data and two of us are live in d. C. , one of us is in paris, and dani burger is a new york. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. More on why we are all over the place in just a moment. Important week kicks off on wednesday with data releases that make solidify a narrative that has been flipping and flopping. Why wednesday is going to be so important . Dani wednesday will be so important because this market has decided that with the week data coming from the consumer, the week data coming from jobs moving in the wrong direction, if inflation does not also soften maybe well Start Talking about stagflation. Lisa that is part of the fear. We are in washington, d. C. Lets get to the why. And reorder, you have important annemarie, you have important interview with janet yellen coming up at a time when industrialization and the china u. S. Relationship is what every ceo and politician is focused on. What will be your focus . Annmarie we are sitti
London. These are the people that we are going to speak to shortly. Dalioversation with ray is coming up shortly from china. We will be talking to Standard Chartered chief finance officer after it they said that they want to give back to shareholders and focus on dividends. We were gaining a touch on the stoxx 600. At the moment is pretty much unchanged. A lot of the impetus on the stocks will be what we hear from from washington, d. C. The u. S. 10whether year yield will go above 3 . Now lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The European Union will tomorrow challenge theresa may when it publishes a dropped brexit treaty. According to a person familiar with the matter, the bloc is said to set out in legal detail how the terms of the transition period will go. U. S. White House Communications director is scheduled to be interviewed privately to date by the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. According to house off