The rush to find shelter of the typhoon bears down the millions of people in the philippines. Bought into the program because president promised hugs and not bullets as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on hes witnessing the worst day of homicides since records began in 1997127 deaths on sunday alone. Mexico so we can the violence 22 people were killed in a gun battle between the drug cartel and Security Forces in a town near the u. S. Border its the latest embarrassment for president on the rare smuggler Lopez Obrador whos vowed to tackle Violent Crime at its roots by fighting poverty i did equality with social programs rather than the army lets get the very latest from alan fischer in mexico city and of course these figures now being digested by the president what else is he been saying seize got quite a lot of people that are listening to him at the moment both politically and in Civil Society. Well im sure it must have been a shock for the president and his staff the
Markets. It has been a wild ride this week. There was rotation on the back of positive news when it came to trade and then we saw stocks retrenching. A lot of the focus is on u. S. Tariffs in europe. Jeanclaude juncker says that is not so. A lot of focus on data out of germany. You can see the u. S. 10 year yield at 1. 91. Coming up, the intesa sao paulo chief executive joins us for an exclusive interview in a couple of minutes. We focus on earnings and the Banking Sector. First, lets get first word news. The u. S. And china agreed tariff rollbacks will be a key part of any agreement, the big question, is a deal any closer to being done . Donald trumps advisors dont sound certain. Yet to be decided, the time and place for signing this potential packed. Donald trump wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden, that was the message and it was clear according to one official. He says the words being pushed by the administration our investigation, biden, and clinton. Special visashere for doct
A similar story playing out in the small caps. Is all small caps driving the rally here. The big caps still in play, but remember, we had that medicines deal with novartis, pushing Biotech Companies higher. Seeingsame time, we are the Semiconductor Type companies lift the smallcap indexes. You can dig a look at the dollar, fluctuating between , ans and losses, but overall fifth day of gains in the dollar. This will take us back to another streak we saw earlier in the month. All that talk about the dollar weakening doesnt appear to be whats happening. Even on a day when the markets are up, youre still seeing people fled back into treasuries. Guy european stocks at session highs as we head towards the close. ,ealth care the primary mover adding to the upside. We are up by just over 1 . The pound is trading higher, as you can see, by 0. 6 . We will talk about that in detail in just a moment. The lira under a bit of pressure. 400y have turned on the s Missile System in turkey. That may acc
Welcome to daybreak europe. Investments slowed in china and gdp hit 6 . That is below the forecast of 6. 1 . Industrialy Strong Production data was a bright spot, but the chinese economy is likely to lose momentum. In terms of market momentum, we move to the downside on the shanghai composite. It has been a mixed picture overall. We will dig into the trade war. We saw gains on the s p 500 yesterday in the u. S. Euro stoxx 50 futures into the red. The 10 year yield tips to a 174 handle. The bloomberg dollar index near a july low. Prices givingairy the kiwi dollar a lift. The worst performer, the pound. Pulling back from a five month high. Yesterday, risk reversals. Volatility still near that 2016 hi, talking about one week volatility on cable. 12849. Back to the brexit story. After frantic negotiations just days from a deadline, Boris Johnson has reached a brexit deal. This is how he described it. This is a great deal for our country, i also believe it is a very good deal for our friend
Bilateral trade agreement with a South East Asian country a Building Block towards a closer relationship between europe and one of the most dynamic regions in the world while european commissioner for trade cecilia mon strong said our trade agreement with singapore provides further evidence of our commitment to fair and rules based trade the agreement will benefit workers farmers and companies of all sizes both here and in singapore. The European Unions competition commissioner margaret vest a juror wants to take a deeper look at apple pay the top regulator previously had sent out a questionnaire to merchants asking if they had been told to use apple pay instead of competing services on thursday best who spoke about the situation at the web summit tech conference in Lisbon Portugal saying weve been asking quite a number of questions because we get many many concerns when it comes to apple pay for peer competition reasons people see it it becomes increasingly do. Bickel to compete in th