Missouri, we took a driving tour museumcity with history on the square executive director john sellers. Were driving around the in springfield. And this Public Square is interesting. Its designed with the streets it in the center of each side, which is kind of rare. The corners. In but it was designed by one of the founders of springfield, campbell, who came here in 1830 with his family and wanted this to be the county designated newly Greene County of southwest donated 50 acres of land and the city sold 48 acres to get enough money for the courthouse and these two town remain, the county square. They built the courthouse in the center of the square and that became the side of Greene Countys county seat. And kind of got things started 1835 and 1838, the city was chartered. It all came about because what by now whicho go is an Historical Marker in the on whatsa building called water street. The reason its called water is was thethis intersection of several native american trails, becaus
Good morning, im Francine Lacqua in london. It is a very packed show in terms of data flow, this is what i am looking at. Lets put everything into context with Asset Classes. Overall we are seeing quite a lot of equities higher after we saw the s p 500 rise to a record, treasuries tumbling after we had less damage than originally feared from Hurricane Irma which supports a case for gradually improving economy. This is a picture for the stoxx of thatthe back hurricane we are also looking at crude oil and this is one to look at, europound and pounddollar. Heres sebastian salek. Sebastian the Un Security Council has approved a new sanctions aimed at punishing north korea. The u. S. Dropped key demands to win support from russia and. Hina wil it seeks to give countries the freeze to freeze cargo ships who dont agree to inspection. Today we are intending to take the future of the north Korean Nuclear program out of the hands of its outlaw regime. We are done trying to prod the regime to do
Keene in london. Tom not the chaos of yesterday. Still overnight the news flows. Historic. Stephanie baker will join us. Weve got a lot of good, thoughtful op eds, including one by Mike Bloomberg that will give some color to the emotion going on in the states. Markets are quite. Quiet. Governor carney has very stable markets. Guy he does. There are rumors doing the rounds that maybe we have got not one but two people voting for a rate hike. Tom dissenters. Guy well talk about that. Lets look at the volatility numbers. This is what were looking at. 79, alook at brent, 50. Lift in oil. Euro, little bit weaker dollar strength. Guy weve got some numbers coming out from the e. U. Inflation forecast. 2018, the headline rate. The ecbs target is at or near 2 . Its raising is 2017 euro area gdp forecast saying risks are more balance. Mirroring what we are getting from mariota draghi. He was riled in the netherlands. Next meetingin the to get to a much more neutral set of language. Tom certainly
Business confidence is plunging. Haidi more disappointing news from the factory floor and japan , machine orders slumping, Producer Prices staying flat. Rishaad the long and short of it, hong kong stocks being targeted by skeptical researchers. Of course all this Political Drama, the British Election, james comey and his testimony to congress. Having a look at gold. Start toshed in and buy gold at times like this as a haven play. This is 502, a look at the last three weeks. Have had three weeks of gold prices falling. Never mind if you look at gold in sterling terms, but gold is priced in dollars. We could be heading for a negative fourth week third week for gold as well. Haidi thats right. You mentioned that excellent point about gold being a currency play. You look at this chart. It is showing that correlation of the prices metal priced in sterling gaining 2. 2 after that calamitous result in the u. K. Of election. That is very much isolated when it comes to bullion nominated in ster
The uk representative to the eu will hand over that letter from theresa may signalling the start of two years of negotiations on leaving. Well bring you all the latest news and reaction throughout the day, from across the uk and European Union. Good morning. Im outside the Houses Of Parliament on College Green ahead of the triggering of article 50 which marks the start of the formal process for the uk to leave the eu. The Prime Minister, theresa may, has just left number ten downing st. She is on her way to parliament. She will be addressing mps this lunchtime after Prime Ministers questions. She will be telling mps that today marks the time for the country to come together as it embarks on what she describes as a momentous journey. We embarks on what she describes as a momentousjourney. We know that embarks on what she describes as a momentous journey. We know that the Prime Minister has already signed that letter giving official notice under article 50 of the lisbon treaty. That lett