Since world war ii, says Angela Merkel, are somewhat over. Matt lets check in on the bloomberg first word news. First off for that we go to taylor rigs. Taylor starting with the story in germany, the german commands lower Angela Merkel is signaling its a new era in europe when it comes to ties with the u. S. She told a Campaign Rally that relyal reliable relations forced are somewhat over and europe must take destiny into its own hands. During President Trumps trip he called germany very bad and blasting allies for not spending enough on defense. A member of President Trumps cabinet is downpraying reports that white house advisor jarred kushner was seeking secret communication with russia. The u. S. Homeland john said is was no big deal. They spoke to russians ambassador and proposed a back channel between the Trump Transition Team and the kremlin. Many of british airplanes computer problems have ended but the chaos is lingering. The airline is trying to recover from a Massive Technolo
Yields up by about three basis points, the vix little bit softer. Jpmorgan says you want to buy hedges against the pickup,. 5 jonathan . Jonathan Jonathan Garland im going to borrow. Whether you think the year has passed quickly or not depends whether you are a sterling fx trader. Its on one year since that vote. The british people have made a very clear decision to take a different path, and as such, i think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. Inevitably, there will be a period of uncertainty and adjustment following this results, but as the Prime Ministers of this morning, there will be no initial change in the way our people can travel and the way our goods can move or the way our services can be sold. We need a negotiation to start as soon as humanly possible and we need to start thinking globally about our future. The other thing i think the it is tohappen is become a National Bank holiday and we will call it independence day. How many im not sure o
The markets are rebalancing. Lets see if the traders wind up agreing. Chinese leader is going to maralago in florida. Oining us now is kevin cirelli. Kevin last week he was tweeting it would be a difficult meeting and then he tweets there will be a lot of great things coming out. Here is he headed . Kevin north korea saying if china wont handle north korea then the u. S. Will have to do it alone. Two things, National Security as well as trade policy are the top two items on the agenda for the summit in florida for later this week. Of course President Trump has tough talk for china on the campaign trail saying they were currency manipulators and saying they havent gone that far yet in his administration but did of course last week call for the reviews and executive orders with Foreign Countries to see which countries are taking advantage of the United States, whether or not china makes that list remains to be seen. David kevin, give us the perspective from the president s view, what is
Opens in percentage terms. S p would open down about 3. 5 . Dow futures down by 2. 7 . The nasdaq down 3. 4 . Counterfactual here from the fear mongers. I think the sun will come up tomorrow. The european markets are having a rougher go of things this morning. Ftsi down, the dax over a 6. 5 . The cac in france down 7. 9 . Italy stocks down close to 10 and in spain the ibex is over 10 . Concern about weaker potential economies what would happen if after brexit the rest of the European Union starts to fall apart lets start working on. We have grexit as a word. Italianexit. Spanexit. Portugo. We need to start working on the signs. I think its already gone someone told me. Some that ugly looking thing. Lets look at the currency markets that is where much of the havoc had played out again. The pound had gone into this on the assumption that this vote would go and the uk would actually remain. As a result we saw the pound almost at 150 yesterday. Right now down by over 6. 5 to 139 but went a
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