Points overnight in asia, the nikkei hitting 26year highs during the trading session. Market ended up by over a half percentage point to 23,849 in europe this morning green arrows there the dax up is up by 0. 2 in france, the cac is up the ftse up over 0. 1 . Yesterday the yield on the treasury closing at 2. 48 . This morning the tenyear is yielding all the way up, almost 2. 496 stocks to watch today. Samsung is forecasting a 64 rise in Fourth Quarter profits on continued demand for memory chips but that guidance is below analyst estimates. The strong yuan and yearend bonuses hit results. Samsung will report detailed earnings at the end of the month. Shares of altice are higher after the Company Announced plans to spin off u. S. Operations the Telecom Provider will pay a 1. 5 billion Cash Dividend prior to separation and launch a 2 billion buyback of u. S. Shares after the spinoff. British American Tobacco says the new u. S. Tax rules will boost earnings by 6 in 2018 the changes will a
Foreign policy chief and the Foreign Ministers of britain france and germany met an iranian delegation in brussels the agreement needs to be signed off every ninety days in the u. S. President has until friday to decide if hill reimpose sanctions. Here opinion remains committed to support the full and effective implementation of the agreements including to make sure that the lifting of Nuclear Related sanctions has a positive impact on trade and economic relations with iran including benefits for the iranian people. The agreement as allowed for deeper cooperation and continuous dialogue with iran on all issues. Amnesty international has called for an independent investigation into suspected atrocities by mia miles military the army admitted for the first time that its soldiers murdered ten muslim ranger their remains were found in a mass grave in the kind states last month its called hi there reports. For the first time in march military has admitted wrongdoing in its crackdown on the
Kong. E in hong for us . Got coming have the chairman of the european committees market. Have steven as our first guest enough just a few minutes followed with june in jumin. The results of the former of ther the Governor Peoples Bank of china will you highse have record and there have been a lot of and was said this rally is going to be much better and healthier if we see that will weigh your it is like a bit like to help rally along. Against. They are sending gains for it and will have stocks in havepore halting and we do a have the in dollar. The dollar falling for the first in threehe first day sessions. He take a look at the big picture, the funds a retreat. Fluctuating all morning. Have a focus on the offshore as theres ground speculation to cool its gained operate we are keeping an eye on oil. Retreatingbrent after closing above the level for the first time in three years. Crude now sliding 4 10 of a percent english comes to what is moving on the regional benchmark, you have mat
From foreign takeovers . Across the European Union its an issue of growing concern with eu trade ministers meeting today to discuss the latest developments. Foreign direct invesment into the eu thats when Companies Invest their money in Foreign Countries came in at 370 billion last year. Not all of it is considered uncontroversial. President of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker said in September Europe must always defend its Strategic Interests such as technology, defence and infrastructure. One of the biggest deals to spark concerns was the 2016 purchase of kuka germanys largest maker of Industrial Robotics by chinas midea for 5. 5 billion dollars. And there is particular concern about companies linked to foreign governments. As china looks increasingly overseas at technology and manufacturing interests, its investors spent a record 43 billion on eu purchases in 2016. Thats almost double the previous year. Just yesterday germanys financial regulator said it would look into t
Good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. We will get into the big picture story in a moment. Breaking news. We are waiting for the Banking Sector to wake up with bnp numbers. Numbers coming through. Lets talk about what they have got to say this morning. They have decided to accelerate the pace of investment. Fourthquarter net interest income. That is ahead of the estimate of 6. 27. They have increased their mortgage volume income. This is a bank that is very exposed to the swedish Housing Market, of course. The impact of the slowdown we have seen in this Housing Market for this business is crucial. We have seen the biggest slump since the financial crisis, even as the economy has been growing faster than average for europe. Saying they see signs that pressure is easing on this Housing Market. Headlinerucial, the coming through. Manus we are officially in a correction. Falls by 2 from the high point. I said to you in the headline that the asian markets were careening