And Central Banks are stepping up calls for help amid fears that they are running out of options. We are live at the imf meetings in washington. Sophie checking on the start of trade in sydney. Little change, after the drop of 200, halting a fiveday advance. Broadly speaking, we are setting up for a mix start in the agion, but looking to have second weekly gain. Chinese thirdquarter gdp numbers come, as corporate numbers on the mainland have shown little improvement after a bleak first half. Japanese inflation remains subdued, giving the boj food for thought at the policy meeting. Able back below 1. 29 on brexit deal hopes, pushing it to a sixmonth low to position for a negative outcome. Aussie bonds under pressure this morning as the rba governor said the economy is improving. Offshore yuan 7. 8 against the 7. 08 against the dollar after fixing. Jessica acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney denies saying that President Trump withheld military aid to ukraine to persuade key h
Him and he won it to please everybody. He is serving a 150 year sentence. The Supreme Court will issue the last opinions of its term on monday according to chief justice john roberts. The court has six argued cases awaiting decision, although it auld schedule some for schedule in october. The court could act on the travel ban and any time. Food will soon run out for south sudanese sheltering in uganda according to the United Nations refugee chief where he described disturbing shortfalls in areas like food, shelter, and education. He said that malnutrition rates among refugees are alarming and said thatfood program the pipeline in uganda will try up soon or code global news 24 hours a day from our more than 2700 journalists in more than 120 news bureaus around the world. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. I am scarlet fu. Joe an im joe weisenthal. Towards thestocks final close of the week. Joe but the questio
Lets check where stocks are trading with Abigail Doolittle. It looks at we have a direction for a change. Small gainsittle for the three major averages the dow, the s p 500, and the s p 500, after trading in a muddled fashion earlier this morning, mixed up and down, we now have small gains for all three of the images. The s p 500 on pace for a second day higher, and the dow on pace to snap a fiveday losing streak. A little bit of bullishness ahead of the health care vote. Investors are waiting to see if that goes through. If it does, he could be perceived as bullish because it could allow the Trump Administration to move fall for forward with fiscal stimulus. It is a dent on the health care stocks. Centene down a bunch. Hospitals stand to lose the most. We have seen this stock down the most, perhaps suggesting investors think the vote will be passed today. Molina health care, with more of a focus on medicaid, also has more to lose, as opposed to humana, which has less exposure accordin
Lets check where stocks are trading with Abigail Doolittle. It looks at we have a direction for a change. Small gainsittle for the three major averages the dow, the s p 500, and the s p 500, after trading in a muddled fashion earlier this morning, mixed up and down, we now have small gains for all three of the images. The s p 500 on pace for a second day higher, and the dow on pace to snap a fiveday losing streak. A little bit of bullishness ahead of the health care vote. Investors are waiting to see if that goes through. If it does, he could be perceived as bullish because it could allow the Trump Administration to move fall for forward with fiscal stimulus. It is a dent on the health care stocks. Centene down a bunch. Hospitals stand to lose the most. We have seen this stock down the most, perhaps suggesting investors think the vote will be passed today. Molina health care, with more of a focus on medicaid, also has more to lose, as opposed to humana, which has less exposure accordin
Is not bad. We were expecting that much. Existing home sales have been a problem for the past year or so. We have not gotten what we want to see. We are seeing a much better than we expected number for the month. Singlefamily homes posted a fairly strong gain. The supply of the market dropped significantly, of course this is wintertime, 24. 1 months to 5. 1. Prices will continue to rise. Well over the 5 million mark. That is good news as well. This will set the stage for reasonable 2015 if we continue. Pending home sales have suggested we will. We start off with good news. Michael mckee in new york city with the latest on u. S. Economic data. More coming to you from switzerland. Plus, a special guest. Well be looking for that legacy of the late saudi King Abdullah. And his nephew. We will talk about the legacy of his uncle, and stephanie, answering questions about the future of saudi oil policy. Lets get your first to guests. He is the managing director and coowner of the boston celtic