Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. We are getting some breaking news out of the u. S. This is President Trump, according to bloomberg sources, putting up to 100 million of his own cash into the president ial race. This is what the markets are looking at. If you look at eurodollar, there is a bit of movement on eurodollar, but also pound. European stocks are sliding, led by technology stocks. Oil dropping 28 two month low to a two month low. There is concerns that President Donald Trump has been stoking these tensions with china and germany. We are seeing construction companies, Mining Companies leading losses across the stoxx europe 600. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Good morning. Lets start in the u. K. , where the chief brexit negotiator has called for realism from the eu ahead of the latest round of trade talks today. Hean emailed statement, warned britain must be treated as an independent country if pr
Treasuries and the dollar gain as donald trump valves to disentangle the u. S. From china. The president also suggests heavy taxes for American Companies that create jobs overseas. Of realism. The pound slides as Boris Johnson says he is prepared to walk away from the eu without a brexit deal. The you the u. K. Top negotiator meets Michel Barnier today. And Angela Merkels team refuses to rule out linking the state of novalnyeam 2 to the investigation. An hour away from the start of cash trading. At what futures are showing in europe. Gains of about 0. 4 across the board this morning on the euro stock my widely traded contracts as well as ftse and dax futures. We see u. S. Futures showing a mixed picture with nasdaq futures lower and dow futures higher. You can see nasdaq insurers have leapt up. It looks like we may not have the tech the continuation of the tech slump we saw thursday and friday. Remember, the u. S. Yesterday was lows for labor day closed for labor day. What do you see .
By their very good evening this is r. T. And. The Senior Commander of irans elite military unit the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. When i heard why it had been shot down i wish there was i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. And you also added in their Defense System operator had faulty communications that had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision earlier tehran admitted its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing of irans chief investigator says the black box data will now be sent to france my colleague Jacqueline Vega discussed the details with r. T. Is donald quarter. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expects he expects irans take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstructi
I am jon fortt, mike santoli, Carl Quintanilla has the morning off, and Morgan Brennan is live from cape canaveral, florida early this morning, boeing starline had complications with delivery post launch morgan reporter yes, thats right, jon. Complications that are continuing to be assessed, addressed, and shape what is going to happen, the next steps for the boeing starliner spacecraft this was the first test, first flight of starliner, uncruewed, no people on board, failing to make the trip to the International Space station as was planned. The launch itself which happened about 6 36 a. M. This morning went according to expectation. The issue arose when starliner separated from the upper stage of the atlas 5 United Launch Alliance rocket, about 15 minutes later, an issue that can basically be summed up more or less as one tied to automation and it was an anomaly that just a short while ago in a press conference with nasa, boeing and the United Launch Alliance officials was summed up
Stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats becomes a response to a similar move by berlin well the middle spot over a murder probe quarter has the story. The Russian Foreign minister has given the diplomats in question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the German Governments decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 Russian Diplomats the german ambassador has received a note of protest over the ground was decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats must leave russia within the next 7 days now it was just last week that the German Government made this decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats for the cut from the country and the official report said that russia was not being active enough in cooperating within vesta geisha into the murder of a Georgian National named so. In can Congress Really now the german prosecutors even say that russia moscow may have ordered the murder itself but russia den