This is bloomberg surveillance. Final trading day of this week. Next week is a shortened trading we cure him london because of the main bank holiday. May bank holiday. Also on track for the Third Straight monthly advance, which is the best run since may 2016. Investors buoyed by the first round of the french president ial election on sunday. The next one is next sunday. Strolling up against the dollar. The best run since december. Highest since september last year. The best run for a month, also gaining for a second month. Gdp data at half past. That stopped sterling in its tracks as gdp comes in line with estimates, relative to the prior quarters. Today gdpr could see the economy expand at 1 annualized. Historically, the First Quarter has been week. Will the rest of the year make up for it . Will there be a shutdown, to name one issue . Trumps tax plan renegotiating. Geopolitical risks. Crude today is up, below 50 after a rally in the first half of april. Oil is set to end the month b
Welcome to Worldwide Exchange, im sara eisen im wilfred frost your shachair all right . No, i have to move up good morning to you from me as well. Im wilfred frost. E lets check in on the Global Market picture futures are a bit down today after we saw fractional gains yesterday. A little bit of a pull back today. Less than in the european markets. Nasdaq down by 11 points dow 6, s p by 2. The fed minutes yesterday seen as a bit dovish, but at the margin it seems like theres a commitment to the normalization of policy, albeit perhaps rate hikes there remains division on. Tenyear treasury note, a bit of slippage yield to 2. 24 around that level again. Yields came off a bit because of the dovishness of the minutes and those political issues global bonds rising today as for the action in asia overnight, lets show you what happened after wall street lost much of its earlier rally. Japan closed in the red fractionally hong kong down a quarter percent. Shanghai comp and kospi in korea continu
This is a big place to buy lottery tickets. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. The onagainoffagain president ial teleprompter was off again, and the president went off again on the media, fellow republicans, and anything else that came to mind. At a tuesday night rally in phoenix, the president also defended his charlottesville comments, though he did some careful editing. Heres chip reid. Its time to expose the Crooked Media deception. Reporter President Trump rushed to his Fiery Campaign trail rhetoric last night in phoenix, a sharp contrast to today in reno, where he read from a teleprompter and struck a measured tone before veterans at the American Legion convention. It is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. Reporter but in phoenix he once again defended remarks he made after a violent white supremacist rally earlier this month. One woman was killed when man drove his car into a cr
The nikkei up a half percent hang seng up 1 111. 2 . In europe, big effort gains in spain. Crude, the one big driver for crude the past couple of days would be harvey. Now a category 2 storm were seeing wti crude up by 0. 7 brent up by 0. 7 welcome back. Thank you great to be back when did you get back last night. Last night. 8 00. All right do you feel different . Do you why would you ask that, joe. Im wondering feels g right . Enjoyed it. Congrats. Everybody knows by now now they do if they dont, theyre about to. Misses melissa lee. Is there a new name. Im still me. Congrats. Good to have you here. Thats dedication, 8 00 last night anything anything to help you out, joe i will do. And the viewers heres the big stories were watching today that was maybe the biggest in corporate news, uber could hold a vote for its next ceo as early as today uber is holding a Board Meeting later total. According to sources hpe c eshs Ceo Meg Whitman will not be there, but former ge Ceo Jeff Immelt will
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