The pentagon confirmed today that the first u. S. Military advisers are on the ground in iraq. This comes as secretary of state john kerry meets with nato Foreign Ministers to discuss the challenges facing that country. Kerry flew to brussels after meeting with kurdish leaders in northern iraq. As everybody knows, this is a very critical time for iraq as a whole. And the government formation challenge is the central challenge that we face in recent days the Security Cooperation between the forces here in the kurdish area have been really critical to helping to draw a line with respect to isil. That meeting took place as iraqi soldiers battled with fight presser Islamic State in the iraq, levant just west the baghdad. Mike, what is the mission for the military 5 advisers now on e ground in iraq. Reporter 40 of the threat hundred that the press spoke about when he deployed them last week have now arrived in country. And their mission to is hes the readiness and cohesiveness of the iraqi
That is half a percent difference with the strong reading of the manufacturing base. Reaction tot is a pmi. The crucial figure to figure out is data. [indiscernible] china above the gain line. Hong kong above the gamelan. And look at australia. Those thanks to the pmi. Data from china has been high on the agenda for our guests this morning. The economy is generally in good health. Fairly broadbased improvement. There was a rebound in output. We saw a continued expansion in export orders and an acceleration in new orders in general. Since the economy it seems the economy has turned the corner. There will be questions over the sustainability and the general strength of the recovery. Richard gibb is mccourys head of economics. He is less optimistic. We are not impressed really by the many stimulus and the very targeted [indiscernible] we think it will need to be broad base. And more concerned about chinas sluggish receptor. Property sector. A very interesting point is we are entering an i
The u. S. Earnings. Micron. Micron and hertz. Baghdadry arrived in this morning. He was in cairo yesterday. He will be meeting with the iraqi Prime Minister. Walden begins today. Chile today. Ersus cameroon ursus brazil. Croatia versus mexico. Good. Y stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities. First day of summer, the advance continues. A real equity focus this morning. The good news in the equity markets, nearing 17,000. Two year yield elevated. There is brent crude. 115 a fewely above minutes ago. What an interesting weekend. Lets go to the terminal. This sets you up for the week. This is pretty boom in housing, and 800,000 units. Here we go the boom. M bought right here. And i sold right there. Down we go. We recovered a bit, but we have a long way to go. This is june sales. Full disclosure, scarlet fu but right here. We have looked at the papers and websites. What an interesting weekend. Youre going to start with bnp because it is close to the settlement with u. S. Over violations
9 billion to settle. And aceos is back online. The fashion retailer gets back to business after a warehouse fire over the weekend, but the firm says its fully insured. Shares pair losses. Well, a warm welcome again to Worldwide Exchange this morning, a bright, early monday morning. We do have some further pmi data out this morning, too. We had france and germany already this morning. Now weve got the composite pmi coming. It was estimated at 52. 8. Its coming in right now at 53. 5. Thats for june. So, compared to the estimates pretty much in line with forecast, but the pmi manufacturing estimate at 52. 1, manufacturing coming in at 52. 2, so slightly better on the manufacturing. On the services, too, its come in at 53. 2, bang in line with estimates, of course. And we did have france and germany out this morning. Germany pretty much in line as far as the manufacturing is concerned, weaker on the services, and that dragged the composite down. France weak across the board, both services
You have one on set with you, i think. We have one on set here. Weve been playing with this for the past few days. Looking up your noses . Looking up our noses. I thought i saw one on a stick over where you are. Am i wrong . Is there a gopro around here on a stick . Oh, yeah, youre right. Yeah, youre right. You know more than i do about was going on. This thing will be live on show . Thats dangerous. It is. This camera is dangerous. I actually one of these, by the way. I own two of them. I own one, too. What do you do with them, put them in your race car . Exactly. Theyre in my race car. Theyre tough. Ill give the gopros credit. Well be talking a lot about gopro during the rest of the program. In other news right now, new York Attorney general Eric Schneiderman who becky will be talking to in a little bit, too, is slapping barclays with its securities lawsuit. They alleged the bank gave an unfair advantage to its High Frequency trading clients. Orders on its trading venue. Instead rath