The nation will tune in as president ial candidates faceoff. Will any of the contenders deliver a body blow to macron . Matt we are less than 30 minutes away from the european open. Futures right now really a mix. Trade not a lot of movement here in futures. To 100tures up just someone percent. Futuress down down. Liker as the bund, looks investors are seeking the safety of german debt here. We are losing a little yield on the bund right now, 0. 269. Bund yields have come down dramatically over the past few it is interesting, especially in relation to other asset classes. Stocks sold off yesterday. We can see that on the gmm. Spain, sweden, italy all trading lower yesterday down 1. 5 around those levels. We are seeing this morning is that the aussie dollar aussie dollar. The yen bid risk off. Trading 110. 45. Lets see what else we are seeing. Iron ore something to Pay Attention to as well. The chinese story, down another 2. 11 . The commodities story feeds into the inflation story and
In the next hour we will be talking with sheila patel, Goldman Sachs ceo international. Xi and talk about President Trump in light of that north korean Ballistic Missile overnight. Also, how are investors in asia handling that a geopolitical risk and the potential of a trade war. David that is looking towards asia, what about europe . On brexit, we will have some discussion about the terms of the negotiation. Alix the Eu Parliament approving that deal, saying youve got to pay your bill before we talk about the transitional agreement which will be most at most, three years. Who better to speak on that than Andrew Wilson, Goldman Sachs ceo of europe . Middle east as well as africa. It should be a great conversation. David jonathan will be very happy since you touched on south africa. Good to have you down there. Now, we will be getting the feds if rmc meeting last month. Yesterday the fed was in the news for different reason where kersident jeffrey lac resigned abruptly, admitting a role
Yousef it is a 4 00 a. M. In london, this is Bloomberg Markets middle east. It is midday in hong kong. We are seeing some markets in the red. Take a look at the go function. Although markets are in the red, we have some strong players. With forceming back from its today holiday. Yuanouth korean won declining. Were seeing a pretty good session or strength for price on time. The taiwan dollar continues to rise. The japanese yen has climbed for four days against the dollar. We are seeing copper following 8 10 of 1 . Keep an eye on jp morgan and goldman sachs. That is the picture in asia in trading. What do you have for us . Yousef as part of the world, a twohour delay on the emirates markets. This was the state of play. The benchmark index up half of 1 . Were seeing strength in materials and industrials. As we got best performer in this part of the world. If you take a look at the technical, that broke through three moving averages in one goal. Also watch out for first abu dhabi bank, dri
And an eightyearold student. He then shot himself. U. S. Attorney general jeff the u. S. Made a tour of mexican border. He has vowed to fasttrack deportations of immigrants in the portion that country illegally convicted of federal crimes. Caroline im caroline hyde. This is bloomberg technology. Coming up, while President Trump meets ceos for his infrastructure plan, Silicon Valley executives are absent. How tech could play a bigger role. Plus, lyft adds more than 1 billion to its valuation. Could an ipo come sooner . Toshiba warned about its future on the heels of a highly anticipated earnings announcement. We will discuss whether the company can recover. Messageresident trumps to corporate america, job creation at the top of the agenda. He made these comments at a meeting with 20 ceos. This was focused on his 1 trillion Infrastructure Program and tax reform. Noticeably absent for the meeting where chief executive officers from the highgrowth sector, tech. In december of last year, he
Extremists. Kohls kaepernick and that with polls have her neck and neck the first round. A big impact on the markets. Lets get to your day to check. One thing we need to watch out for today. There is a very clear move to haven assets. You can see what we are seeing for young, for example, 110. I wanted to show gold in a couple of minutes. Stocks slumping. Yen gaming amid geopolitical concerns. Stocks in europe for the unchanged. Kreuz something we need to watch out for, just above 53. Something we need to watch out for, just above 53. Gold is gaining at the moment. Nejra the white house has warned syria to stop using barrel bombs against civilians. It suggests donald trump may expand the criteria for u. S. Action against assad. Rex tillerson visits moscow a chance to persuade russia to cut support for the syrian regime. Trench president ial candidate Marine Le Pen has described multiculturalism as a weapon for extremists. In paris, she said fighting terrorism must involve preventing mu