Belgium has sealed an agreement with the netherlands and france to draw up passenger lists and introduce passport checks on International Rail services. The move will tighten security on the trains and help track criminalses who might be using them. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Scarlet u. S. Stocks slipping from record highs but they still notch gains. U. S. Stocks slipping from highs that were made this week. But they still notch gained for gains for the week. Joe the question is, whatd you miss . . Scarlet at a joint press Conference Today with the british Prime Minister, trump stressed americas special relationship with the united kingdom. On the same day i held an hourlong phone call with the president of mexico that follows the mexican leaders decision to cansal meeting over trumps plans for a border wall. Plus, President Trump says he still has not made any decisions regarding russian
Beating the establishment. The outsider defeats the former Prime Minister in frances socialist primary runup. Does this give more ground to the independent candidate, Emmanuel Macron . Toyota the worlds bestselling automaker. How will looming trade barriers affecte the sector . Matt less than half an hour until the european open. Take a look at futures writedown. You at futures right now. Futures are off after equity markets declined. Chinese and various other asian markets are closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, and i would are better advised to focus on other Asset Classes today. At currencies, commodities, treasuries what do you see . Guy lets run through the columns and talk about whats happening right now. What we are seeing most prominently, matt, is the dollar beginning to firm up. Earlier on it was down. Now it is barely budging. More than 1 10 ofha 1 ,. 13 now. Some dollar weakness but not a lot. Theyen is up by around. 3 , swiss franc is having to look out for as well. We
The euro. Today. Appening 30 minutes into the trading day. The latest. Has lets look at health care. Julie lets look at health care as trump meets with health ceos. Drug shares are moving higher but not by much. 1 . Third of there is a relief that it was not more, not yet, of an acrimonious meeting even as trump talks about bringing drug racing down. He also talked about bringing down drug regulation and thus far it looks like a friendly meeting so we will continue to monitor that. We are still seeing declines here for the fourth straight day with the major averages. The s p has lost 1 over that amount of time. Said, even as we see the pullback, we are also looking at volatility for the major averages as well as for bonds. An interesting average we can look at that shows volatility is at a suppressed level. This is the ratio of the vix, the ratio of stocks to the volatility of bonds. If you look at the taper tantrum and past times that we have seen low times in volatility, we are getti
Demeaning process. And very demeaning on the other side. And they want to make you look as bad as possible. And of course the press can be very demeaning, too. But im sure the press will be very dignified in this case. Thats the word. I think hes a very dignified man. Id like to see him go through a dignified process. I think he deserves that. Hopefully it will go quickly. And well see what happens. So what we might do is just that, we might ask for the folks in the room just to give yourself a quick, your name and a little introduction. And, wayne, i would say they know you, perhaps they know you better than they know me. I doubt that. Wayne, national association. Nance, ceo and president of concerned women for america. Im sharmane yosta with american havevalues. Thank you, mr. President , for this nomination. Thank you. Great job. Thank you. Tom with the u. S. Chamber of congress. Congratulation on a fantastic nomination. Thank you very much. Norquist, americans for tax reform and th
World. Gallagher said he would convey the message. The two agreed to work to support developing nations and the environment. In 1981, Pope John Paul ii became first leader of the Roman Catholic church to visit japan. The American Homeland security secretary has come out to explain and defend trumps controversial immigration measures. Confusion and chaos spread at airports after the president banned people from seven middle Eastern Countries from entering the u. S. This is not a ban on muslims. This is a temporary pause that allows us to better review the refume and visa vetting system. John kelly says the administration is considering various options for tightening immigration control including examining online browsing history, phone records and social media postings. People were detained at american airports after they were refused entry to the country. Some have filed lawsuits saying that the travel restrictions are unconstitutional. Get us up to date. Whats happening . Currency dev