Theres a lot on the table. You think about autos, agriculture, infrastructure. Theres a lot of stuff here where xi jinping and President Trump will try to find some Common Ground. This has been one of the more tense relationships as far as foreign relations. Scarlet President Trump spoke with taiwans president shortly after he won the election because that broke a Cardinal Rule the recognition of taiwan and taiwans leader as an equal. China reminded him of that by telling him by not speaking to him for a couple of weeks. Tocalled president xi reaffirm his position on the one china policy. Lets get you to Abigail Doolittle with a check on the markets. Less than two hours to go before the close of trading. Abigail gains in the major averages. The dow, s p 500 and nasdaq all up. 3 or more. This comes after the bearish reversal yesterday. We are starting to seeee more volatility. We had the big selloff more than two weeks ago. Volatility usually breeds volatility. Todays calm may not last.
Good morning. Happy friday. Welcome to World Wide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. Its Favorite Song friday. Were saying one of the most loved tunes. Who do you think this one is . You. I send in a lot of requests. I sent three. So did i. I had a feeling mine have a better vibe for friday. Landon has some too. Looking forward to all of that coming up. You can let us know what you like the most. Good choice. I have some better ones from myself. Coming later. Lets check on the Global Markets this morning. We have two days of back to bckk gains. 29 days in a row now where we have not seen a plus or minus one percent move on the averages. Looks like dow is under pressure in morning. Down 63. Hold on to the gains for the week which do look positive up until today. S p down about 8. Nasdaq down 16. All be it the gains very slight for the week, if we dive into them, we have had sector differentiation. Energy up 3 for the week as a whole.
Sugar is leading us to an early grave. We begin the bulletin in brussels, where n. A. T. O. s secretarygeneral jens salten burg is wrapping up the n. A. T. O. Summit of Foreign Ministers and defence ministers in brussels. Al jazeeras nadim baba is at headquarters hes been listening in. What has been said . Hes only just started speaking but its expected hell talk about the same themes that john kerry has been talking about. Kerry sets off. He has been talking about how native alpolice commits to turkeys rights and has been talking about the former officer to montenegro saying its not about russia, but every countries rights and a commitment by n. A. T. O. To strengthen the security of the balkans. The end of a summit overshadowed by tensions between russia and turkey, not happy at the accession of montenegro. Whiches has just joined n. A. T. O. Thats right. Two reasons for russia to respond negatively. We knew there would be noises from moscow of disapproval. The list of countries is l
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Someone was here posturing that question. Where is the growth . How did you deliver it . It will be pretty darn hard. Ineffective is one of the views of the ecb. Us give you a flavor of what is going on the ad indices. These are our bellwether stocks. The dax up. 4 . Down his volkswagen. The cars getting a little bit of a resurgence. It is undoubtedly about retailers. I take you to an image of london. The ftse is down i was waiting for that to update. That does not look like it is updating in the right way. We will move along. I quite like the picture. Convenience Stores Trading up 16 . Trade up and taste the difference at sainsburys. That rose by 5 . Tesco sales up 30 . Caroline hyde will take you through all those numbers in terms of how much you will tesco is up 1. 8 . Does that lay the groundwork for tescos . Marks and spencer is a trade up, depending on how you look at marks and spencers in terms of quality and the food that people go for a christmas time. You mentioned oil at the