Today. Down 15 . Accounting errors being investigated by the fcc and ftc and the doj. A deal has striker down 4 . It is buying a medical device manufacturer based in amsterdam, wright medical. It is selling down a little bit off of that. Guy here in europe, the stock 600 through the 400 line. That is a big deal. It is being driven by the dax today, german autos getting in on the deal. We are waiting for Christine Lagarde to speak, the first time shes going to do so as president of the ecb. Dare i mention it . The rand up by 2 . This to do with the fact that south africa did not get downgraded on friday. Negative from moodys but it did not get downgraded. Peter, lets start with equities. Absolutely going from strength to strength. What message do you take away from that . Is clearly athere loss of liquidity. The fed is injecting cash. The 60 billion per month in tbills they will buy per month on Central Bank Balance sheets. The ecb is back on expansion. Over the many years we have been
Looking at the european stoxx 600, some downward pressure. The focus is on the trade deal. It is a partial trade deal. Will not round tariffs go into effect. A lot of focus on the chinese economy. The other big story is brexit. 125. 66 is where we are seeing cable at the negotiations are ongoing. And there is a brexit summit as we like to call it with eu leaders in brussels on thursday. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance we speak to the former fed governor. Nobel also expecting the prize in economics to be announced later today. Let us get straight to the bloomberg first word news from new york. Says he ist trump ready to go with more tariffs on turkey. This comes after the u. S. Withdrew troops from the north of the country but the move has pushed kurdish fighters into the arms of president assad. Forces from the Syrian Government are returning to the northeast for the first time in years. And spains top Court Sentenced cut elan separatists catalan separatists to 13 years. Former cat
Today. A key meeting set to take place at the white house in this hour. Can President Trump seal a deal even if its just a skinny bundle kayla is in d. C. With the latest on the talks b. Before that 2 45 p. M. Meeting between President Trump and the vice premier of china the treasury secretary and the trade representtich are going to be briefing the president to tell him what transpired between two days of what treasury secretary says were productive negotiations a couple of blocks away with china. Whoa expect there will be some announcement secretary mnuchin confirmed there would be there needs to be a decision on what those are a source stels tells me preside jinping needs to be what is decided as well. We await those developments. Secretary mnuchin just briefing moments ago. He was asked about the optimism regarding china trade talks in the market right now, especially on the back of headlines that there could be a partial deal coming heres how the treasury secretary responded. The
Week price premier will lead negotiations for china is telling dignitaries his offer to the u. S. Will not include commitments on reforming chinas industrial policy. These are some of the big demands the Trump Administration has been making in the trade talks. Update now on the crisis in hong kong. The city is struggling to recover after a night of violent clashes. Protesters defied government threats with Wearing Masks and were met with tear gas they were threatened with a year in prison for hiding their faces. Police arrested dozens of protesters and bussed them away under new emergency laws chinas military threatened to arrest protesters who aimed laser lights more protests planned for tonight. Some grocery stores, other businesses have reopened after closing early yesterday. The metro is only partially functioni ining hooch of serious and in the just dont tweet about anything anymore section of our news today, also making news the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the nba h
I sawed this loud and clear to everybody. Rob portman back immediate up. Theres nobody more honorable than rob portman of ohio he called up, please let the money go i said rob i hate being the country thats always giving money when ukraine helps europe and the European Countries far more than they help us theyre like a wall between russia and europe. Theyre like a wall. Theyre a big, wide, beautiful wall and he said, you know what but its important in fact, he came out and he said that this was my only reason. Because i dont like being the sucker country we were the sucker country for years and years. Were not the sucker country anymore. But i gave the money because rob portman and others called me and asked. But i dont like to be the sucker and European Countries are helped far more than we are. And those countries should pay more to help ukraine ask a question. Thank you, sir. What did you want on biden . Biden and his son are stonecold crooked you know it. His son walks out with mil