Apple reports, by the way, apples plan for new faster chips behind that. And you see it there call it snowflake soar since its ceo raking it in every month jim cramer says hes worth every penny, carl. Thats a lot of pennies well talk about that, guys. We mentioned, jim, all the stuff thats coming at us in the coming weeks or the coming days, rather including some investing meetings, crm, adobe, disney and starbucks. A lot of companies that are doing incredibly well and we should also be thinking not just here but worldwide i think its kind of shocking to see that other than the banks in europe, almost everything is doing well all over the place, including these companies which are very international companies. But i think disney has a great story to tell when it comes to plus adobe has a great story to tell when it comes to all the things theyre doing and starbucks it looks like were getting comments saying, look, theyre doing better than we thought and thats also international. All th
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the gap. There is a big movement on europound. That is what i would be watching. Also data coming in better than expected but really still under 50 at 41. 7. If you look at the data, the story on the markets is exactly what is happening with euro pound. Now, the fact that france is now floating a veto threat over the brexit deal makes a lot of Market Participants very nervous. I am looking at our live blog, in 2020 at funny expecthe basically says eurosterling to appreciate rapidly through the september high. Leaplks about ready to Tall Buildings if the trade talks fail. Overall, looking at global stocks really pausing for breath after record highs. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Expanding the lockdown in germany for three more weeks until january 10. Reassessrkel wants to the restrict
Boost the recovery. Larry summers says the coordinated Global Response is needed. And airbnb books an ipo in new york, aiming to list shares on the nasdaq. Booking through september a total of 18 billion. Although it admits covid19 continues to affect the business. Lets take a look at the asx. More than normal when it comes to the australian soft market after it had the data disruption out. Yesterday was the longest outage in about a decade. Of course, it meant australian traders missed out on the bulk of the days rally. Only trading for a halfhour. We are seeing a pretty modest start, less than 2 10 of 1 higher at the open. Perhaps some caution there could be more technical difficulties. We are seeing gains when it comes to trading in new zealand. Nikkei future setting off on a bad foot as we are seeing some profittaking. It does look like the vaccine driven optimism and the rather we saw overnight will continue, with s p active futures in the positive. Shery we have breaking news at
Deal dependsen the eu and refinitiv take over. A 4. 3 billion take over with caixa bank creating 7 billion in assets. Tiktok could go for a u. S. Ipo. The deal with oracle and walmart. Its fate could be decided in the next 24 to 36 hours. A very warm welcome to street signs. Weve got a flurry of m a deals to kick off this morning the company has denied reports it is in investigations over a proposed take over bid bloomberg had reported more in recent weeks and that negotiations are in the early stage. Euronext in discussions with lse. Adding any potential sale depends on eu approval of the planned take over of refinitiv the deal news doesnt stop there. Caixabank and bankia have agreed to a deal of 4. 3 billion euros a 20 prem yium will create spains largest bank relieving costs around 77 Million Euros. So many things we could talk about. We could kick off with this banking deal, weve been waiting for more consolidation in european banking a lot of chiefs have said cross border m a has
London mayor sadiq khan is set to recommend more restrictions. Bruised. Leaked documents related to troop 2 trillion in transactions, showing banks profiting from powerful and dangerous actors, even after the u. S. Introduced penalties. Low inlls to a 25 year hong kong. Plus, pet review. The eu starts an evaluation of a pandemic bond buying program. Policymakers are expected to discuss how long they should continue as well as whether or not they should widen the rules for older programs. Just an hour away now for than the start of from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at where markets are pointing us futures are pointing us. A drop in asian stocks. Ftse futures off one full percent. Concern of course about further or another renewed lockdown driving that market down further than the others. You see dax futures up 0. 8 . Look at u. S. Futures, not down as much right now. Looking at a drop in u. S. Across the s p, the dow, and the nasdaq, about 0. 5 right now. Anna f