The grease fiveyear bond should price sometime today. What will that price be . The vix lower on the day. David time now for your morning brief. General motors and caterpillar will release their earnings later today. The home prices for may will be out. And we will get july Consumer Confidence data. Alix thank you. Companies in the s p reporting this week. Here is where we are stacked up so far taking a look at sales and Earnings Growth. Top is sales growth. The bottom is Earnings Growth. Blue is technology. Orange is the rest. Much google today. They are getting hit by 2. 5 after disappointing some investors in terms of revenue. Here is what the coo had to say. We are obviously happy with the ongoing strength and advertisement revenue, particularly in search. We continue to drive user adoption and engagement with mobile devices. Build bettero expenses for users and advertisers. We see increasing contributions from growing nonadvertisement revenue businesses. L trying us is pau google
Happy president s day if you are joining us from the United States. Good afternoon. Anna edwards, good afternoon. There you go. Stoxx 600 up for a second consecutive day, the highest level since december. It will be a quieter day today because of the president s day holiday. No chart shows a better story, no two day chart shows a better. Tory 143 billion, that was the bid put on the table for unilver from kraft heinz. The shares surged 13 on friday. The biggest gain ever, a record. Or unilver today, shares fell 9 . Kraft heinz walking away. Sixceo of unilver had months to put his ship in order because takeovers to debate that kraft cannot come back for six months. s defenses were not formidable, such as low Stock Ownership by management. Credibility may take a hit Going Forward. That is an interesting angle. Rbs shares up to a oneyear high after it said it would scrap its planned sale of its Consumer Banking division. Investors are optimistic today. The rbs is closer to resolving these
Walmart stock unchanged in the premarket. Jonathan we begin coverage in europe, where too many, its hard to reconcile rising global uncertainty with Economic Data that showing resilient economy. We had to france where greg is standing by. I want to begin with the politics. Marine le pen and the National Front touching up in the front for the second round. It has much more to do with security than it does with the economy. If you go back a few weeks, the poll showed are leaving in the first round and getting stung in the second round. Losing, somewhere in the 30 range. Her opponent would get somewhere the 60 range. It takes a much tighter race for the second round. Seeing high 50s for her opponent, low 40s for her. Theres a bunch of reasons. She has definitely had the security issue, but the incident at the louvre recently. There were riots across france after the release after the police brutalized a young man. Some of her opponents took the side of the young men who got in trouble wit
They havent seen proof of trumps claim that his predecessor kept his phone. Senator john mccain spoke to cnn. The president has one of two choices. Either retract or provide the information that the American People deserve. If his predecessor violated the obama, weve got a serious issue here. Thank you. According to abc news and the associated press, the House Intelligence Committee gave the Justice Department until today to provide evidence backing up President Trumps claim that president obama tapped his phones. In europe, david davis is trying to avert a revolt within the conservative party. The house of commons votes today on a bill that gives Prime Minister theresa may the power to begin the brexit process. Someone parliament to have a say in what happens. Davis is asking lawmakers not to tie mays hands. He wants them to overturn amendments to the bill approved by the house of lords. The dutch election has been upended by a dispute with turkey. Analysts say the incident could reen
Couple of political blows to the donald trump administration, he revealed that the fbi is investigating whether any of the president s associates collaborated with the russian government during the election campaign. He said there is no evidence to back up the president claimed that he was wiretapped his predecessor. In europe, french president ial front runner Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron went after each other in a televised debate, she attacked his record and call for a ban on all immigration and a 35 tariff on certain imports. Macron blasted her for her lack of ethics. A former Irish Republican Army commander who helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland has died. He was 66. He denied allegations that he took part in terrorist activities during the time known as the trouble. He later became the chief anotiator negotiator for arm and eventually became a leader in the powersharing government. A former south Korean Leader has appeared for questioning for the First Time Since the