Lets get your global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to munich to paris washington to sarasota, florida and new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. There are questions about transparency for china. Rishaad salamat joins us from hong kong. Walk us through some of the latest. Now with63,000 cases the death toll up by 121, but the inconsistency in the numbers has led to a lot of questions. Some of them are not being answered, and that has led to people thinking that this disease is not really going away at the moment. We had some optimism a couple of days ago, but that has receded somewhat. Weve also got bickering between washington and beijing. The u. S. Saying they have been denied that. On a microeconomic level, weve got companies such as Fiat Chrysler halting production in one of its plants in serbia. They cant get enough parts out of china. If you want to buy a barbie doll in the future
Fbn a. M. Starts right now. Friday is forever. We belong together. So come on, come on, dont you say never. There is no tomorrow. So come on, come on, you should know better. Its friday. Lauren it is friday. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl what a week weve had. Lauren i know. Great week. Cheryl trying to recover. Im cheryl casone, good morning. Lauren great week when you look at the markets. Lets see how your money is moving. Were going to see more records today. Will today be the day the dow hits 29,000 . Came within 12 points yesterday, up 57 right now, nasdaq gaining 30. Cheryl after starting the week with volatile price jumps, after the iran strike against facilities in iraq, the flight to safety has backed off. Oil is down again. Gold is down as well. Lauren in asia we saw a mixed performance with the except of the shanghai composite which was lower. The other indices in the green today. Cheryl european markets inching higher. Leaders in germany and france have be
Remarkable considering the last 48 hours. The dollar continuing to strengthen, and crude at a very sanguine 59. 19. Guy lets talk about what is happening here in europe. Weve got a risk rally underway. Stocks reasonably well bid. Volumes pretty good as well, so that is worth paying attention to. Pound down by 0. 3 . Brent crude down as well. The pound down on those carney comments. Lets talk about what is happening with the trade narrative. Vonnie yeah. China announcing that vice premier liu he will travel to washington next week to sign the first phase of a deal with the United States. Joining us from washington is bloomberg trade reporter shawn donnan. It would appear the events of the last couple of days havent deterred china from that january 15 date we heard before for a signing ceremony. Shawn absolutely. This is the first time weve heard the chinese confirm that the vice premier will come to washington. The real theme since this deal was first announced way back in october has b
Looks at families torn apart by the conflict. Going to die and the planes are bombing us to be honest very close as the Syrian Government offensive against live province intensifies we talked with a syrian refugee camp in germany desperate to get his family out of harms way. And in soccer you a full bands of Manchester City from Champions League competition for the next 2 seasons the preaching its the spending groups will get reactions and look at whats next for the english club. And happy birthday to you tube and we take a look at how far the massive video sharing site has come in all sorts 15 years ago with an elephant a video. Im called assman to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world are the topic issues at the Munich Security Conference which kicked off this afternoon nearly 3 dozen heads of States Diplomats and top Security Experts are coming together for the annual
Apart by the conflict. Were going to die and the planes are bombing us the army is very close as the Syrian Government offensive against it live province intensifies we talk with a syrian refugee in germany desperate to get his family out of harms way. And in soccer you wait for banns Manchester City from Champions League competition for the next 2 seasons for breaching its spending rules will get reactions and look at whats next for the english club. Im called aspen thanks for joining me a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference which kicked off this afternoon nearly 3 dozen heads of state diplomats and top Security Experts are coming together for the annual gathering in southern germany the wests dwindling influence on Global Security as even spawns new tour west lists. The whos who of international politics. With plenty to discuss. The german president frank steinmeyer spent much of his keynote s