Should take some of this moisture, still mostly cloudy. If you can get some sun breaks, san jose, livermore and the peninsula. Too much cloud cover, light rain. Still 60 degrees. 7 01. Sal is here. Well, the east shore freeway is cleared up which is nice. We had that crash completely gone here was taken out of the lanes and moved out. But now its completely gone and its going to help traffic come through at the macarthur maze. When you get to the bay bridge a backup there which is typical. No major issues on 880 also it is slow. Well tell you more about the morning commute in the south bay in a few moments. Lets go back to desk. A three car crash an gravel spill brought traffic to a halt. Showing us what its like there now, youve moved off the highway, so everything is open there again it looks like. Reporter good morning, allie, yeah, lanes were closed for 4. 5 hours. As you county radar can see both directions back open, traffic moving again along highway 101 through palo alto. There
Space, facebook, the stock jumping after the social Network Announce the a Payment Service operating across all platforms straight to kait rooney in San Francisco with the details hey, kate. The social network is stream lining the Payment Option was facebook pay think of it as a wallet on facebook, lets you send payments to friends and shop on whats app and instagram this is the latest sign of the tech giant push into payments. We saw a little bit of that with libra and the ambitions in cryptocurrency but whats app and Facebook Messenger have not seen huge adoption when it comes to the current payment methods. Analyst tell me this is way to get the apps working together seamlessly and the hope is theyll be more engaged. Facebook is partnering with paypal and stripe on the back end and still support credit cards and paypal checkout. Analyst tell me this could be a positive for paypal since its a partner in the announcement. And facebook pays seems to be more focused on ecommerce than pe
It is also near levels that is signaling it is in overbought territory. Overall we started with the nikkei to 25 moving upside. It has now fallen below the hang seng. Talked about shanghai comp with regards to Inflation Numbers portending good news. Pork prices responsible for a lot of gains. Something to worry about. Excessive be down to inventory and overcapacity at the same time. Does not bode well. Not painting a rosy picture for the chinese economy. Lets have a look at what else is going on. The bond future. 10year trading outlook, 1. 94 . The 10 year yield unchanged, 1. 3 . 28,sterling slightly up, 1 partially down to moodys putting its negative outlook stamp on what they perceive there. Offshore you want just a fraction below seven. Lets see what else is going on here in hong kong. David as you are pointing out, stocks are under pressure. What has happened this morning, a couple things. Police confirming they shot two protesters during rushhour traffic this morning. Demonstrator
He weighs in on the trade war but says the group is extremely wellpositioned despite the risk. If we are not forced to do deals, we have a good strategy. Years, wehe latch you are wellpositioned to capture organic opportunities. Of course, if we have an opportunity to evaluate nonorganic options, we will, but it is not something we are forced to do. Nejra defense undercut. Gordon sondland says President Trump demanded a quid pro quo from ukraines new president as he implicates senior officials in the administration. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Breaking numbers coming through on the bloomberg. The event headlined is that is proposing suspending his 20182019 dividend. That is the main thing to look at. Fullyear adjusted ebitda comes in at 802 million euros. A little soft on the fullyear adjusted two number. 42 billionevenue at euros. Estimate, 41. 6. That comes in slightly better than expected. The strategy was key for investors as the industrial giant reports these numbers tod
Out within the have and havenots of retail, the targets versus the macys and jcpenneys. We have the oecd cutting its Global Growth forecast for this year, in particular germany. They see growth up there just 0. 4 . But the market goes nowhere. The markets really want to drive higher here. For globalow exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from beijing to new york to atlanta. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. In china, top trade negotiator liu he says he is cautiously optimistic on a trade deal. Shawn donnan joins us from beijing. Whatever we learned so far from china . Shawn we learned that liu he, the vice premier, has been sending out some positive signals. What is important about that is at comes at a time when some folks in the market and some folks close to the talks are warning that these talks are in a pretty fragile state and could fall apart still. Liu he, as part of a visiting delegation last nig