The bloomberg terminal back to work. Italy starts seeing its lockdown ease, france follow suit. Boris johnson returns to his post today. Adidas revenue slumps 19 in the First Quarter, but bayer catches oost with adjusted epic. Ebita. Surprise. Ish Deutsche Bank says that expects to post a profit for the First Quarter, but as it is unlikely to meet its leverage ratio in 2020. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Let us take a look at futures as they trade across europe this morning. Looking at gains on futures of 2. 3 for the euro stoxx 50 bluechip european benchmark index. Ftse futures up 1. 5 . They have risen a full percent in the last hour. Dax futures are also up. In terms of the u. S. We see 1 gains across the major equity indexes in terms of futures. S p futures, dow jones, and nasdaq futures. Let us get the bloomberg first word news. In place a plan to start easing lockdown measures on may 4. Manufacturing and construction set to restar
All the major f. A. N. G. Companies. They are set to release their numbers and guidance. Thank you for joining us im Brian Sullivan lets talk more about your market setup you have dow futures indicating a gain of about 100 plus points at the upside. 200, as a matter of fact, stock futures are well in the green despite the fact that oil has come down significantly. The price of oil down again right now. Remember, we are in that june contract it is off about 13 this morning, down to under 15 and change so, watch oil. There is a story in the oil patch to Pay Attention to as well that is Diamond Offshore Diamond Offshore, a major oildrilling contractor, obviously like the name immris, off the coast. An offshore company has, indeed, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection the Company Simply not able to meet its obligations so Diamond Offshore has filed for bankruptcy protection. Keep an eye there on that story as well. Also you want to watch the stock of loews, ticker l, not the Home Imp
Travel deeper into the Remote Office mountains to see how a Small Community is coping 2 weeks out of a devastating ice cream on the us. President s throws his support behind, striking, also workers as they demand best of wages from commenters. The russian says theres been another attack and its black seen for us of all simple and try me. On nearby c, passenger traffic has been suspended. No casualties have been reported, and it comes a day after ukrainian massage target at the headquarters of the russian black seems things in the city. The head of your cranes intelligence says at least 9 people were killed in the attack. Moscow says its air Defense Systems shot done 5 missiles. It says one person is missing. These are the latest and a series of training and attacks on crime. Yet this month were going to go to the same bus, sorry, whos lie for us and keep talk to us about these recent attacks. First of all, the same for the latest information we have is from the russian backed governor
Cable television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former National Security advisor, susan rice joined the discussion on changes to us Foreign Policy under the Trump Administration. And American Leadership in world affairs. Hosted by the Aspen Institute in washington dc, this is three hours. Good morning everyone. Good morning. Thank you for your patience. I am the director of the Aspen Strategy Group. And welcome to this session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. First i want to thank piper for giving us their space this morning. We much appreciate that. I would like to thank all of you for being here. Members of the Strategy Group. Particularly senator dan sullivan of alaska with whom i will introduce any minute. Let me tell you about the program this morning. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an org
A sign of confidence, the russian leader wont even be attending the event. Theres now little standing in the way of mr putins re election in march. Virginia langeberg explains. He has spent almost 18 years in power and is a man familiar with the grand entrance. However on this occasion, Vladimir Putin is expected to not even turn up to his own nomination event. Some have read that decision as a sign of confidence that the kremlin says the president has a prior engagement. Today marks the official launch of Vladimir Putins president ial campaign. Runs as an independent and halves until the end of january to collect 300,000 signatures to register his bid. Is little doubt he will be re elected. There are no strong arrivals are now that Alexei Navalny has been formally disqualified. The Central Electoral Commission deemed him ineligible because of the corruption conviction which he says is politically motivated. Translation which he says is politically motivated. Translatiosz which he says