Wednesday. Until the end. 8 1 2 pounds, youre ready. Thats a good, healthy weight. Anyway, we wish becky the best. Well be talking to becky im sure a lot. Hopefully well see becky, but probably not for a little while. A little boy and a girl. Its totally rounded out. In the meantime, we have so much to talk about. Well start with u. S. Equity futures and well get to the debates in just a second. Take a look at this, the dow jones up 77 points after last nights performance. The nasdaq up 21 points and the s p 500 up ten points higher. The asian markets in hong kong and japan are close d for the holiday. Youre looking at the european equities right now. As we flip the board around, were seeing everything up pretty much across the board. Finally, well take a quick look at crude, wti right now this morning. Youre looking at 49. 60. Yeah. So down about a half percent. It was down on friday. Pierced 50 for the First Time Since june last week. Well watch the saudis comments on that. Well get
We do. Last year we did a special design for the year ahead issue and we are doing it again this year. We are parodying other magazines. I love it. Is really fun. There is a lot of material in this issue and it makes it more digestible. The economic section looks like the economist. The tech section looks like wired and you have to wait and see the rest. Our department did a nice job of both helping the reader get through it and also helping the reader read the text. It is all very readable and i put a smileyoull on peoples faces also. This is the fourth year that you guys have done the year ahead issue. You have an editors note at the beginning it would you are urging caution. That is the message of a lot of the stories in the issue. The economy is still in a muddle, but the people we spoke to sort of saw a clear path to growth. Was not a time to take huge risks. As i Read Everything we did caution was the word that jumped , out at me. But i think will jump out and readers too. In the
We do. Last year we did a special design for the year ahead issue and we are doing it again this year. We are parodying other magazines. I love it. Is really fun. There is a lot of material in this issue and it makes it more digestible. The economic section looks like the economist. The tech section looks like wired and you have to wait and see the rest. Our department did a nice job of both helping the reader get through it and also helping the reader read the text. It is all very readable and i put a smileyoull on peoples faces also. This is the fourth year that you guys have done the year ahead issue. You have an editors note at the beginning it would you are urging caution. That is the message of a lot of the stories in the issue. The economy is still in a muddle, but the people we spoke to sort of saw a clear path to growth. Was not a time to take huge risks. As i Read Everything we did caution was the word that jumped , out at me. But i think will jump out and readers too. In the
Volatile bonds anna we will be digging into those commodity stories, but in less than half an hour to the european open, lackluster if you are looking at risk appetite. Calm before the bank of japan and fed storm tomorrow, off by 3 10 of a percent. New female news as a takes them for glaxo in march. Guy lets talk about was happening to the gmm. Great way to start your day. Great gains yesterday for equity market, the ftse outperforming, doing solid business yesterday to the upside. Today, the focus is going to shift toward whats happening with the central bank story. The yen is on the move. Fx markets are reasonably calm, the little bit of strength coming through against the u. S. Dollar. Zinc also on the rise, up by 2 . Well really dig into the commodity story a little later on in the program. A great conversation coming up, the relationship with equities front and center. I want to quickly show you Deutsche Bank, with whats been happening at the selloff. Stabilization, but we will wa
We had some importing use. Market movement, a lot of volatility. Tom a lot of volatility. We will cover that with paul donovan. Excusepresident me, the president and the chair will meet today at 3 00 p. M. What chair yellen will discuss with the president , but they are meeting. Francine i dont know if this happens very often. They may talk longer term. Tom maybe they will look at Washington Capitals prospects. I dont know. The stanley cup is upon us. Francine there you go. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres Caroline Hyde. Caroline the international furor over the penama bakers the Panama Papers anders its second week. Over the weekend, cameron addressed concerned Party Activists that acknowledged shortcomings in his handling of the matter. President argentine is promising to put his assets in a blind trust after he was linked to two Companies Listed in panama. Foreign ministers from the group of seven industrialized nations are meeting in japan, calling for a renewed pus