Could a computer come up with the next big medical breakthrough . Well meet the man whos using Artificial Intelligence to try to bush back the boundaries of medical science. And as weetabix fails to take off in china, its chinese owner puts the company up for sale. So today, we want to know, what gets you going in a morning . Whats your breakfast wherever in the world youre watching us today . Welcome to the programme. Of course it has to be a full english send in your comments. In the last few hours, the us Vice President mike pence has touched down in tokyo where hes meeting with the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe. In recent weeks, President Trump appears to have softened his stance on trade after taking aim at some of the worlds biggest exporters during his election campaign. In the case of japan it has been accused of manipulating its currency for trade advantage something the japanese have denied. And the Trump Administration is hoping to reverse the Trade Deficit between the
Speed on the market action. Futures are a bit firmer. 0. 3 . Market,tion in the fx the bullish dollar call. The euro is a touch solid softer. Yesterday, massive repricing. 220 on the 10 year. Alix time for your morning brief. We get weekly crude inventory for the u. S. Trading at a oneweek low. Watching that later. Speaking gothe fed a conference. 2 00, the beige book, survey of regional economies, what does it say about the reflationary theme . Jonathan do you read the beige book . David i do not. Alix i will skim it. Jonathan it is a reason it is beige. Prime jonathan Prime Minister may will take questions and later, over in the u. K. , as they will debate the call for a snap election. It was not meant to happen until 2020. Two thirds need to vote for the snap election that Prime Minister may would like. David . David Morgan Stanley was not the only Bank Reporting results. Blackrock posted better than estimator earnings. It is the cover story of markets magazine. The ceo, larry fink,
Im pleased to welcome today our panel of expert witnesses all with deep knowledge and experience in the region. Victor who is the Senior Adviser at the center for strategic and international studies, aaron who is professor of politics at princeton university. Kelly help me. Maximum secretary of defense for Security Affairs and ashley tellis, senior im having trouble with my anunciation this morning. For the past 70 years we have worked with our allies to uphold a rules based order based on principals of free peoples and free markets, open seas and open skies. The rule of law and a peaceful resolution of disputes. These ideas have presented peace and prosperity in the asian pacific. Now they threaten not just the nations as the asia pacific but the United States as well. The most immediate is kim jong uns regime. They have thrown its full weight behind the means to deliver Nuclear Weapons. Unfortunately the regime is making real progress. A north Korean Missile capable of striking an Am
Borenstein. Amanda lets check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage. Miller in berlin as german low, andp to a record andr current enda curran simin demokan. David we begin in london. Mario draghi and company have begun buying Corporate Bonds. Lets bring in guy johnson. What do we know if anything about which bonds they are buying . Guy they are looking for the most liquid bonds. This is a new phase for mario draghi and the ecb. It is looking to step up its program, boost its Balance Sheet, trying to get money in different areas of the economy. It is buying the most liquid names in the corporate sector there, anheuserbusch. They have been buying spanish telephone companies. Liquidig names with big pools of Corporate Credit that they are stepping into. The Bond Buying Program has been rippling into other assets so you see it affecting the equity market. Affect also. Year buy aroundoking to 5 billion each month, and we will find out where. That the market has been front running
Tanks another 98 employees good we are going to see employees. We are going to see the bloomberg taking us out. We are on the euro stoxx up by 1 . The ftse 100 up by 1. 1 . The cac up just shy of 1 . In forive start priced european stocks. Caroline significant moves in the euro stoxx 50. Check out on the fx market. Currently similar moves we saw in asia. On was that risk flooding into the equity market in asia. The british pound up. 4 , up against 31 of its trading partners today. The euro up. 4 higher. They are one of the most accurate forecasters of the british pound. 1. 15. 15 brent crude up 3 . We got a great oil guest coming up. U. S. Pulling back production and boosting overall crisis. Lets get more on what is happening in the wood of business. First word news with selina wang. Caroline could voting has begun in britains the stork referendum. Britains historic referendum. We will be following all of the action with special coverage tomorrow. The ecb has reinstated its waiver on g