Westminster. Brexit, a pretty historic and tumultuous couple of hours we are expecting. The meantime, lets check on your markets. We are seeing market volatility, pound dropping lower today. Lets get the board up for you, pound at 1. 1981. There is a lot of debate in the newsroom over whether that has to do with Dollar Strength or markets realizing an early election could mean an alliance among the ones who wanted a hardline brexit and increasing the chance of a no deal, but we are seeing a tilt to the market overall, a little risk off mood. You can see a little higher than usual at 10 higher and gold at 1530. Coming up, we speak to sir Howard Davies, a chairman of rbs as the prospect of an election surges. We will talk about what that means for the banks. Dont miss that interview 11 00 a. M. London time. Lets get to the first word news with Sebastian Salek. U. S. Areand the struggling to agree on a schedule for the next round of talks after watching a rejection of allaying tariffs. A
The forecast was 48. We are seeing a little bit of a gain, practically unchanged, but up by 0. 05 . A lot of stock markets are looking at Decisive Action from Central Banks around the world, signaling more dovishness and putting to one side concerns for iran. Crude oil jumping and stabilizing 57. 48. We are just getting the june the manufacturing forecast coming in at 47. 8, a touch below estimates. Anything below 50 indicates a contraction. Speak shortly with the International Rescue Committee Executive and former foreign secretary of the u. K. Later in surveillance, two days after the fed got rid of patients language, we speak to the vicechairman. The day, we are joined exclusively by the former fbi director james comey. Hong kong headquarters are closed again today after demonstrators gathered to show opposition. Despite a public apology from executive carrie lam, protest leaders are calling for her to resign. They also want the controversial proposal to be completely withdrawn. , a
long. morning joe starts right now. are you ready? food for everyone. food for everyone. okay, that s great. he paid everybody. food for everybody. what a guy. he was arrested. what a guy. and released. he kept everybody s spirits up. by buying lunch for them. food for everybody. local cuban restaurant in miami. willie, that is so kind of him. maybe he has been misjudged after all. willie, what do you think? i think mika called this in real time and every day since, but i ll let you reveal the story. well, the miami new times revealed nobody ordered anything during his ten-minute stop, and trump didn t pay for anything. i don t think there was an offer to do so. yeah. willie, nobody ordered nothing. nobody paid for nothing. there was no paying. i know this is going to shock you, coming from donald trump, it was all a scam. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, june 16th. along with willie, joe, and me, we have former aide t
what does it all mean for the u.k. now in going forward? and what will the economic spillover from europe mean for us here in the u.s.? correspondent alex hogan joins us now from london with the latest. good evening, alex. good evening, bret. it is an historic day on downing street in just a 92nd speech. liz truss forfeited her fight to hold on to her seat. same spot where less than two months ago she vowed to serve the country. the british public now preparing for the 3rd prime minister in just four months as liz truss announces she is officially stepping down. i therefore have spoken to his majesty, the king, to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. the tori party leader started the job holding an audience with queen elizabeth ii days before the monarch s death. promised tax cuts which downward spiral of the economy. all of the plans have been completely reversed just six weeks later. new approval rating record low. comes less than 24 h
Issue, but the chief council is known to me, and its known to me from the madison guarantee issue, where the chief council was then an object of investigation as purported to provide information of the investigation to other people that were objects of the investigation. And i tell you this because in this context of low morale, or not optimal morale, at the same time we see this issue of misconduct, those issues are important to people and how they react to them, and how you in this new job of yours, you have very little time to make the First Impression and you know this, youre a smart lady and set that standard and that and that circumstance where justice is blind and theres standard that everybody from the top to the bottom has to adhere to and will be judged on accordingly. Youre the person to do that, right . And i just wanted to outline that. We appreciate your time here today, we thank you very much for it. I thank you the witnesses. Your testimony has been valuable and i thank