Comes to the opec meeting on thursday. Spread coming in at 57 basis points. And bitcoin. Is it going to be 10,000 today . Time for the morning brief. At 8 00 this morning eastern steven mnuchin, William Dudley on the hill of the sec will all be speaking in new york at a conference on the structure of the u. S. Treasury market. At 10 00 all eyes will be on capitol hill as Senate Begins confirmation hearings for Jerome Powell. And President Trump continues to campaign for a tax overhaul. He will be going back to the white house for a meeting with congressional leadership on how to avoid a government shutdown. Thats all coming up today. The big story into ec is Federal Reserve nominee for the chair, Jerome Powell. The gap appears to be narrowing between short and longterm Interest Rate raising concerns on the future of the u. S. Economy. Joining us now is drew matus, metlife and that achievement metlife management chief market manager. Are we expecting to see anything different from the c
The european markets were down a couple minutes ago. They are pretty much back up. It seems the feel good factor in u. S. Stocks have now petered out somewhat. Im looking at u. S. 10 year treasury yields, pretty much a picture of stability. The dollar off the trade bound. The dollar, gaining a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we sit down with luca paolini, the chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management. Thewe will also break down saudi budget with the director of Economic Research at the Gulf Research center. First, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian uber has lost the battle as it differs from traditional taxes. The car hailing app should be regulated. The eu court of justice ruling, think of the president sentting. British officials fear spain will threaten to veto, if negotiatey fails to with madrid. It has been in british hands since, 1713 but spain could make a claim over the land. To the u. N. Assador nikki haley is pressing other countries n
, acceptte has to decide the house plan or risk a christmas shutdown. Kevin cirilli is on capitol hill with the latest. We have been through this before. One of the prospects looking like at this point . Kevin it looks like at this point . Kevin it looks like they are going to kick the can. They are going to vote at 5 00 for a onemonth continuing resolution. It could get more complex when it gets to the senate. No locking no lawmaker wants to jinx it and by their ticket home because they want to wait and see what the senate is going to do. All indicators suggest that republicans are trying hard not to step on themselves one day after passing a tax reform package and would like to get out of here by close of business tomorrow but it is going to be up to the senate. Senator rand paul has concerns about surveillance programs. It is interesting it is going to be interesting to see how much noise he can make. David you also have senator collins who is holding a iou from majority leaders. Wh
Five i will welcome you watching r. T. International with me nicky aaron good to have you with us this hour our top story lot about a person says an explosion that ripped through a supermarket in the russian city of some petersburg on wednesday was a terrorist attack fourteen people were injured in the blast. Sure but you know would you yesterday there was a terrorist in some pieces and just recently Security Services prevented. These images from inside the shop where the explosion took place most of the counters and shelves have been destroyed we spoke to eyewitnesses who were in the supermarkets at the time of the attack. The blast happened as my mother was painting i was totally disorientated a part of the ceiling was hanging above me. I started to look for my mom how. Far. From the scene to the scene i couldnt see anything everything was black i couldnt understand where i was then i close my eyes and open them again and there was my son close to me. Supermarket security cameras fil
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