virginia in nebraska did in fact go to polls today with the republican race. threecus is instead on general election battlegrounds, florida, ohio and pennsylvania. that is because quitting up university is up with you quinnipiac university is out with the polls that run counter to clinton s current lead over trump in many national polls. in pennsylvania, clinton and trump are statistically tied. the same is and true in florida, which is a must win state for almost any future president and finally, in ohio, quinnipiac has trump up 43% to 39% for clinton which is within the margin of error, but there is a lot in here to dig into sheer, but as we know polls like this do two things. they reflect reality and they create reality. begin with the first thing polls do, reflect reality. what reality do they reflect? mark: let s not overreact to one set of polls. the quinnipiac is a good pollster, and the states are obviously critical for determining which one of these lands. wins. a
remaining unfailingly optimistic , the method the stock could jump in. amazon delivering for jeff bezos, making him the fourth richest person in the world. nearly $62 billion. please follow me on twitter. singapore trades, on the way down, just over 15%. we are expecting a drop of about 9% there, as well. we want to see if there have been any reactions there. pesos,much unchanged, 46 69 could buy yourself a dollar. in china and indeed in hong kong, taiwan and malaysia coming on stream with julia. juliette: we are watching the south east stocks quite closely today. you ve seen a pickup in the singapore, .7%. but they have been on their before theing streak asian financial crisis, malaysian down by .1% three but there is a rally coming through in regional stocks. regional, we know the index for japan has been on an increase, as well. things are looking good, things to that rally in european equity markets during the session led by that rally we saw in oil. nikkei up by 1.5%. th
make a profit. some say the recalls could top 118 million. debatinglian senate is the impeachment of the brazilian president. her opponents say they have enough support to bring her down. let us now what you think about our top stories on twitter. hong kong markets getting underway in 30 minutes. several others just coming online. we are following pessimism from wall street. the regional indexes lower for by thest session, led 225. on the nikkei we have had earnings coming through from toyota and bridgestone. , andpointing to investors we have the yen starting to rise . little bit one member saying they see that 2% target being reached by the second half of 2017. they are saying we should be watching for today s negative rate effect. in australia, we are seeing some weakness. the australian market coming off of those highs, down half of 1%. crude rallied in new york and europe. aristocrat and myer looking good. looking at the markets coming online, we have malaysia and singap
mark: the whole big political world gorged itself on a nice big juicy trump steak extravaganza in washington, d.c. we of course have our own team of reporters standing by to covers all of the angles on this special report edition of with all due respect. team coverage throughout this all-new episode. it was a great day in d.c. that is how donald j. trump , billionaire described his , huddle with paul ryan and reinecerevious preibus and other republican leaders on capitol hill in a series of meetings. just in case you have not been glued to the tube, let me give you a recap. the press got there early before trump s meetings. first trump met with ryan and bus. he afterwards spoke with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and republicans in the upper chambers. afterwards, ryan and trump released a joint statement saying while we recognize there are differences, we recognize that they are also important. there are many important areas of common ground. this is a great op
it offers huge opportunities. and change coming to struggling the new owner has done an initial review across the board. job jobs will go to reward hard workers. you can follow us on twitter. do not forget the #, trending business. out of south korea, the latest policy decisions. we have all the details. guest: as expected as expected by most looking at the policies at the moment, we have a seven-day rate. 1.5% and they kept it there. they will keep it there all the way, since the summer of 2015. and we should note that it as at a record low it is at a record low. as expected, unchanged at 1.5%. that does not change the focus for the meeting on june 9. just because they did not do anything, the economy does not need it. there is a reason why they have it coming out with a non-consensus call, they may have done it this time, but not really. you look at the external situation. you look at the amount of debt in the system, in south korea, and the consumer debt. you can
from the asia-pacific to new zealand we are seeing losses this hour. lower on that1% disappointing chinese data. retail sales. right now you re seeing a decline in about one third of 1%. also counting down to the openings in australia. futures are pointing to a slightly lower open. plus including being in the second cut from the royal bank of australia. dropping to record lows. after that chinese data over the weekend. let s get over to japan tracking futures trading at chicago. we are seeing signals pointing to a lower opening on monday. japanese yen is still range bound. watching out for producer prices for april. we will break that to you when it comes. is the story disappointing data from china over the weekend that highlights the challenge facing policymakers trying to reform the economy and cut overcapacity. how bad do things look? in march we saw a slew of positive data. some would say this is a corner has been turned. the reality is that industrial output and producti
1% when it went on the lunch break. good things coming out of australia led by the health care stocks and the 10 year bond yield going to a 10 year low. and gains coming through for the u.s. dollar, that is putting pressure on some of those asian market currencies. i will have more on the market, shortly. angie: thank you. uber s story this hour, chinese rival could be considering an ipo as soon as next year. wow. this is coming on the heels of them raising more than $1 billion from apple in bringing the total amount of the fundraising to $3 billion and with a valuation of about $26 billion. angie: what does it mean for over uber? they said that they want to hold off the ipo as long as possible, so that means that didi could raise ahead of them, so they are avoiding raising from the same investors at the same time. and there are other services in the pipeline also want to ipo will potentially lyft. and in terms of fundraising, what the sources said, is the reason they h
faulty takata airbags. they missed estimates by 34%. alibaba is kicked off an anti-counterfeiting group, amid questions of the platforms and worries about a conflict of interest. alibaba says it must be part of the global fight against fake. to let us know what you think of top stories, you can follow me on twitter at @yvonnemantv and do not forget to include the hashtag #trendingbusiness. singapore and malaysia have just come on a line online. how are they digesting this data? juliette: yes, we were pointing to a next session. that is certainly what we are seeing with the ppi numbers coming through the japan, the yen is weakening so japanese stocks are higher and australia due to the fact that we see good movement in base metals on friday. elsewhere, there is data coming through across the board, singapore and malaysia coming down online, all down between .1% and 0.2%. the chinese economic data coming through on friday, affecting across the board. markets up without an int
i am anna edwards in london. manus: i am manus cranny in dubai. you will kick it off with china. i know you like a chart. anna: i have a chart for you. today, equities bouncing this morning, rebounding from a one-month low. the sales tax increase in japan is one factor, maybe hopes for stimulus in china. chinese stocks gaining a little in the session. we had a rough month of april. , over the weekend industrial production, retail sales, investment, and new credit. i have a chart here showing bloomberg dvt for china, a monthly tracker through the deluge of data. gdp justnth of april, 6.8%, below 7%. 7.1% is where we were in the month of march. manus, that s one of the things the markets are dealing with, a slowdown in china, but also constantly reevaluating expectations from the fed. manus: absolutely. we will get minutes from the fed. that will be the real linchpin of this week s trading. for me, it is about volatility. i love when there is a little nuance to volatility. have
jonathan: we are looking forward to that conversation. futures are largely stable. they are down about three points. it looks like we are going to have a stable start to the day. euro, 11322. you can see the story at the bottom of the screen. wt is wti is up two percentage points. the yield on the 10 year is upon basis points. 2007. the narrowest since david: let s go around the world for in-depth coverage. both kennedy will tell us what s going on behind the surge in oil prices. we re going to start with merger monday. pfizer is back at it again. julie hyman is here with the details. julie: this is a much smaller deals and allegan. this is a $5.2 billion deal. they are the target. what s attractive about anna core, it does have revenue to treat fungal infections in the toenails. it is developing a drug that looks like it s expected to be a high sell it to treat eczema. it has had some positive steps in terms of approval and in terms of studies over the past year or so. 992