Surveillance. Goodning orbit more afternoon or good morning. We saw a bit of a lift in asian stocks. Now, the stocks europe 600 down. 27 . It always honest President Trump and xi jinping can find a solution. They will sit down and we will see if we have something at the g20. The u. S. 10 year yield, the story of the day, actually, the year. The nymex at 54. 12. We understand opec may have found a date with a could meet, the first of july. Coming up, we have an allstar guest lineup. At 930, we have an excuse of interview exclusive talking luxury and the chinese of watching. At 11 30, we are joined by blackstones chief executive Steve Schwarzman. And later on, we speak to the facebook coo sheryl sandberg. But first, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. A bloomberg scoop. President donald trump asked white house lawyers to explore his options for removing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Happened earlier in the year, less than two months after trump discussed firing him.
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Anna a very warm welcome. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Im anna edwards. Manus im manus cranny. We have one of her last interviews as the ceo of easyjet. Thats at 7 00 a. M. Anna later, we speak with david duffy. He will be joining us later on to talk banking. The world is a strange place. The german elections, very boring for a long time. Challenges and janet yellen plans to step down from the fed. You look at the world, you look at north korea. Its been named a state of terrorism. Where do you put your money . Gold did have its worst loss in two months yesterday, down by 1. 2 yesterday. Where do you hide . Open interest takes a spike. Open interest in gold is at the highest since june. That is at the close of business last week. Increasingly, geopolitical events have reported the tactical use of gold in the short term we have heard this before from a variety of people. Lets see where it goes for the rest of the week. Anna we will show you where we are on the msci asia. Despite t
Control these assets. We will dig into the implications for netflix because they potentially stand to lose possibly the most if fox and disney pull together and emphasize hulu, their direct competitor to netflix. Alix Lisa Abramowicz is joining me, by the way. Fox. Y will be buying the deal looks to be about 52. 4 billion. Disney will assume 13. 7 a foxs debt. This also means that disney will by foxs 39 ownership of sky and bob iger will remain ceo through 2021. A look at whats happening to the stoxx premarket. Disney up 4 10 of 1 . The news was widely expected. Take a look at fox to see what shares are doing. By about a few percentage points. Fromt to get more reaction gita. What is your initial reaction to the deal . This has been in the works for about a month or so. All of these rumors and news reports. Disney instrumental for for its streaming strategy. Gives them a lot of heft in the marketplace. A lot of ammunition in terms of a deep library of content. Increases negotiating lev
The dollar, and President Trump. The ecb. Lisa the ecb is facing an economy that is recovering and not just recovering, but is definitely gaining steam in the eurozone. The question is, will they announced some kind of ending of their Bond Purchase Program and will they try to talk down that euro . The euro has been strengthening against the dollar. David it is not just the economy gathering steam, it is the euro. Lisa the fear is that it will eat into the corporate profits. David it also suppressed inflation that mario draghi said he wanted so badly. Steve mnuchin says he has been perfectly consistent, there is no problem with the u. S. Dollar even though it has taken a hit. You can see what the dollar has been doing over the last few days, not good. Lisa and took a leg lower after Steven Mnuchin broke ranks with previous treasury secretaries who always commented about not wanting a weakened dollar. He broke with that protocol and saying it would be positive for the dollar to weaken f