Thank you for watching bloomberg surveillance. The stocks europe 600 down a touch. A lot of the focus is on the jay powell. You can see the u. S. 10 year yield at 2. 10. And we are looking at the pound. Boris johnson is the person who will probably become the Prime Minister and keep saying no deal brexit should still be on the table. We seeing Market Movement with the pound extending. You can see cable at 1. 2458. Coming up, we talk commodities with blackrock at 10 30 a. M. London time. But first, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. China are. And holding the first highlevel talks since a truce was called in the trade war. Top trade officials are speaking on the phone. Larry kudlow says the initial talks were positive. There was headway last winter and spring, then it stopped. Hopefully, we can pick up where we left off. Ambassador lighthizer and secretary mnuchin are exploring all that. Discussions today went constructively. But its too soon for details. Factories and bare
Lets look where european equities are trading. Just under 30 minutes to the close of equity trading. This is the stoxx 600 and different industry groups. We are off by 1 10 of a percent. Mixed picture Energy Stocks outperforming. We are seeing a spike in wti and. Rent Consumer Staples underperforming down. 8 . Financials also lower, perhaps some of the low yields in the core tech stocks also not doing too well. It is the commodities outperforming. Commodity stock, energy stock, and commodity producers within the materials. The ftse 100, a little weaker,. 1 . Have been seeing cable spiking, i have a chart later showing the correlation between the ftse 100 and the pound, the ftse 100 falling below the 200 Day Moving Average for the First Time Since the brexit vote. It is still below the 200 Day Moving Average. It hasnt managed to break above it yet. Volatility on the ftse 100, volatility wages, we are looking at implied volatility, have been climbing relative to the euro st ocks. If we l
Diplomats. But putin said no, not to retaliate for now. After obama shut down russian come pounds in new york and maryland where we have already spotted moving trucks. I dont think its a new cold war. This is more like cold war 2. 0. It has been going on for several years. I appears putin is ready to hit reset button with President Trump accusing president obama of trying to undermine the new administration. Trump still denying russia tried to meddle in the election. I find it fascinating that trump says time to move on with an active cyber war with russia but he cant move on from a bad restaurant review or not winning emmy for apprentice. Kenneth before he takes off, John Mccain Ann week the intelligence officials will testify on capitol hill. Reporting in northwest, kenneth moton, abc7 news. Q we are learning more about the massive russian compound on the Eastern Shore that emptying. Its just across the by a in centreville. Jonathan elias is live in sat lie center with what the abc7
Is returning to a moderate pace. She said the fed needed to verify the expected acceleration in growth and now she isnt acknowledging that may not happen at all. Important change in language and important shift in tone for the fed and for janet yellen. The speech that she is about to couple contains a little of bombshells that help explain why. First, janet yellen now admits that Larry Summers and other prominent ecommerc economist my crisisperi t a post period may be here to stay. Admits the he also Financial Market volatility that has made it so far for the fed hard for the fed to control the economy and to raise rates is partly a consequence of what she calls accommodated Monetary Policy. Low rates can be selfdefeating. They indirectly create a barrier to higher rates. Finally, i like to draw your attention to the Monetary Policy report itself. Specifically to the section on Financial Stability. The fed says, one, stocks are getting expensive on a forward pe basis. They have not adj
Lee k shang lee k shang. They are revealing a new location for the Gemini Bitcoin exchange. A fundamental shift in the last 24 hours, a swing back towards remain over the weekend with the markets moved to go with it. Big gains in new york, the biggest pop since august of last year. It will continue with features firm. Board, a bigthe day for sterling yesterday, the biggest pop since 2008. The gains continue, pretty much unchanged for 2016. The euro is just a little bit lower and the fed chair is that to speak in just a few hours time. The euro down 1. 68 on the u. S. 10 year. David ok, john. Thes check in with Bloomberg Team for an indepth coverage of top stories. Anna edwards and it is in westminster and guy johnson is an london. Is in brussels, and Erik Schatzker is an washington. Jonathan all reporters and the lives of the stories are stacked. Withdwards joins us live the very latest on the polls from westminster. Guy johnson alongside me to talk about the market reaction. Anna, the