To meet madrids deadline but reiterating his call for dialogue good morning it is thursday morning thank you once again for tuning in to street signs. We are one hour into the trading session, what we have seen unfold in the markets is interesting. The hang seng off by 1. 7 . No one knows the reason for that the stoxx 600 has taken a like lower, off by 1. 73 . As soon as we know more about the underlying reasons, well tell you about it. Maybe tweet in if you have a clue as to what is going on. We have some chinese data out which is more or less in line with expectations. When it comes to europe, we had plenty of earnings, and some were mixed we had disappointments from s. A. P. , unilever, nestle lets tell you what the european markets are doing. We have the ftse mib off by 0. 8 ftse 100 off by 0. 2. The xetra dax now off its recent record highs, back below the 13,000 level off by 1 and of course all eyes on the ibex 35, this as the Catalan Leader Carles Puigdemont has reiterated his c
And we will speak to the ceo of unilever after the consumer goods giant reported sales that missed estimates. The interview at 7 15 london time. Matt we are less than 30 minutes away from the open of european stocks. It looks like the rally is set to continue. Here you see gains in theaters cac. E dax, ftse, this, after we saw gains in trading yesterday in the u. S. , asia, and carrying through to us here on the continent. Manus lets have a look at gmm, because it tells the story. The dollar is unsure. Yesterday i was confused. This morning the dollar is flipping it ever so slightly against the aussi. There is a sentiment that the fed will be provoked a little bit like the bear with a stick into doing a rate hike every quarter next year. I was in a session yesterday where they talked about dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde with trump. The dollaryen, 1. 1360. When it comes to trade policies in the u. S. , somebody might want to brief the administration on if they dont produce enough aluminum, iro
Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc, im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. A pinch and a punch, first day of the month. Do you remember that one . No. First day of the month. Is that a british thing . A pinch and a punch . For the first day of the month. Lets check in on markets. We did see gains across the board for these three indices for the month of january. Albeit we ended down about 0. 6 for the dow. The nasdaq and the s p basically flat for the day. As i said, gains for january. There they are. The nasdaq the best performer, up 4. 3 . The dow up 0. 5. Back to the futures today, we are expecting a positive open. Gains around the rest of the world as well. 38 points higher for the dow. S p 500 higher by 5, nasdaq higher 2. 5. Yesterday we saw a broad riskoff day. The tenyear trefasury note slipped down to 2. 44. The yield on the tenyear, 2. 4 . One factor that could be helping the dow, its our top corporate story, apple. Shares of th
Speech. A writer taking the blame for words similar to Michelle Obamas speech four years ago. Kenneth craig is live from the Republican National convention. This speech writer is coming forward so she is just a scapegoat . Reporter michelle and kenny, this is the first time we have gotten an explanation about exactly what happened. Yeah, she is taking the blame for this. It comes a few hours before Donald Trumps Vice President ial Pick Takes Center Stage here tonight for a very big speech. Something the Trump Campaign would rather focus on. The Trump Campaign is still dealing with the fallout of melania trumps speech from monday night that had many similarities to Michelle Obamas 2008 speech. Your word is your bond. And you do what you say and keep your promise. That your word is your bond that do you what you say youre going to do. Today the Campaign Said the speech writer took responsibility, saying she felt terrible and offered to resign. But mr. Trump rejected it, saying people mak
The new book. 0 to 1 what does that mean. Peter it means going to the first car, the first airplane, doing something never done before. It will require us to do new things, to invent new things. What companies have taken us from zero to one . Peter facebook, twitter. Emily you argue we have been in a tech slowdown. Have they not been innovative enough . As a society, i would argue we have not done as much as we could have. Energy, biotechnology, there has not been as much as one might like. Transportation, not moving faster. Emily one thing you tell inspiring aspiring entrepreneurs is not to copy larry zuckerberg or steve jobs. Why not . Page will next larry not be starting a search engine. The next bill gates will not start an operating system. In some sense, you cannot copy them because they did not copy summary else. Emily you also suggest they come up with one important truth that very few people agree with you on. Why is finding something that nobody agrees with you on the best wa