Anna it is 6 00 here in london. Lets talk about what happened in the u. S. Markets. Guy looking quite nicely untold the pictures and headlines appeared. This is the s p 500. If we zoom out a bit further there it is. That is the point at which we see the greek writing. Anna show what happened yesterday. Guy that was really positive. Probably a tail coming through in todays session. The greeks having a Global Effect once again. Anna we broke the longest rally in u. S. Equity since january. As you say, the netflix story complete the different up 10 . And internationally annaguy you are one of them. Anna this is a business growing fast internationally. It is the fast performer on the s p 500. Guy lets turn to athens where lawmakers passed the bailout that keeps them in the euro. For now. Alexis tsipras pitched his deal as the best for the greek people. Despite the fiscal measures and restrictions, we are capable of a lot in this country, which will serve the benefit of the majority and res
It is a stronger dollar story this morning. Yields much higher on treasuries by flavor basis points four basis points. Alix look at the two year yield. 1. 29 on the twoyear yield, up three basis points. Watching over in france, the yield up by thre two basis poin. Watching that selloff as we hear that fillon will stay in the race. David taking us to President Trumps speech to Congress Last night, we are joined by kevin cirilli. In new york, we have michael mckee. What were the highlights of the speech . What did you take away from it . Kevin it was a different tone from trump, but it did like policy specifics that traders on wall street were looking for. He did call for an increase to u. S. Notary spending. He also called for a 1 trillion infrastructure package plan to pass. He also vowed to cut funding from the Environmental Protection agency as well as the state department and foreign aid. Either way he did not take a position on the border tax or tax reform or a host of other issues
For many markets. The dax is up 1. 24. France is you will over a 1 so is the ftsi. And crude oil rising for the first time in seven days. Wti up by 66 cents. And also look at currencies. The pound making a sharp comeback this morning after tumbling to a more than two month low. Both the uk referendum campaigns have been suspended after the killing of jo cox. Gonna show the currencies because problem with the goes back to 1. 43 in watching it. The betting market, didnt get up to 70. Now i think the betting market was the pound. That might be a better indication of whats happening. Right. The one market thats really kind of got its finger on the pulse. Im sure the betting market obviously it is not as big as the foreign currency market or the pound. 1. 42. And then we didnt show gold. Gold is gold is going down. Gold is going down. After seven straight days. Now you are ready. No im not. It was down like 8, 10 or something. But its on a roll. Down 11. 11. Long way to go. In the meantime.
Brent a decline of 49 cents. Couple big corporate stories to tell you about. The biggest one, its final. Its here. Verizon set to announce an agreement today to buy yahoo for 5 billion. Sources telling us that yahoo will no longer an operating company after this. It will become a Holding Company for stakes . Alibaba and yahoo japan. Has a small platen portfolio to sell. Marissa mayer not expected to stay on after the deal is completed. Her severance, expected to be 57 million. Well have a lot more on the story in a couple of minutes. Other news as well. Tesla and solar city, theyre reportedly closer to a merger. No brainer. Thats a new one. One brain. Elon musk the largest share hoeflder in both companies. In the final stages of carrying out Due Diligence on both companies. The companies are carrying out due dial generals the right brain talking to the left . Elon did an interview this morning. Did you see this . Its a good piece. We dont get that paper. Its called the new york times.
Footage for this man and his family. Coming amid a massive manhunt underway in brussels for those two terrorists still believed to be at large. Authorities not revealed their names. Unclear whether they know who the terrorists are or not, and two people wanted in connection with the brussels attacks. Five suspects, three of whom are dead. Two believed to be on the run. One that theyre looking for, this man seen in white. Seen at the airport and believed to have fled the scene after his bomb did not go off. Second suspect believed on on the run. Authorities have not released names. They may not even know them. Nor additional pictures of this suspect or additional pictures of the other man. Here is what we do know. I will go through each of these murders that blew themselves up murderers that blew themselves up. What is maddening all of them were known to authorities and no one did a thing about this. Talk about ebb bra hem Ibrahim El Bakraoui that he took off for netherlands and belgium