manus: welcome to countdown. anna: a very warm welcome to the program, just past 6:00 here in london. manus, let us talk about the last 24 hours that was equity markets. rocking, bouncing off a very positive month for equity markets. the nasdaq having the best day in six months, just to put that in context, the year-to-date losses trend down to just 3%. some real equities coming through. manus: that is what we have here. this is the s&p 500, as you say, the loss trimmed back to 3%. volatility trimmed back by 14%. sinceggest one-day drop january. deutsche bank saying get on with it. 11% since the middle of february. the u.k. market has rallied 11%. as in the rallied 8% since the middle of february. it is a real shift, having passed through the needle. , there counting the msci asian market lagging. you have that downgraded by moody s on that view of china. the yuan is stabilizing. the manufacturing data really caught the zeitgeist. anna: anything positive around that, to put i
tom is in washington, d.c. tom: it came out widely as expected. there were some nuance francine through the night. it was fascinating to watch the political derby at about 10:00 last night, maybe 10: 30, particularly the tension among rubio of florida on the republican side. let s go to some of those results. i think we know seven states in seven states for donald trump and hillary clinton the opening frontrunners but then it gets a lot more interesting. we ll get to the secretary in a moment. for mr. trump it is simple. mr. cruz of texas wins throw states. really quite a speech from him and mr. rubio needed badly to win and he won late in the night in minneapolis. 23% of the delegates are taken out by the secretary and by mr. trump. 285 delegates for mr. trump of 1237. 23%. hillary clinton with 544 delegates, 2383. mr. rubio, i guess his staff breathes a sigh of relief and says we took minnesota. here is donald trump going after mr. rubio. i know it was a very tough night
delegates needed to win. ted cruz 13 states and marco rubio has 87 delegates. a verymp: i know it was tough night for marco rubio. he works hard. he spent a lot of money. he is a lightweight. herline: meanwhile in victory speech, clinton took what sounded like a shot at rumptrump. mrs. clinton: it is clear the havesin this election never been higher, and the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has never been lower. trying to divide america between us and them is wrong. and we re not going to let it work. caroline: clinton has 1001 of the 2283 delegates needed to win. u.n. security council vote on new sanctions for north korea has been delayed until today. the sages are aimed at punishing north korea for its recent missile launch. the sanctions are aimed. north korea would be banned from selling minerals. the world s largest money manager says leaving the european union would mean it risk for the u.k. with few rewards. the countryarns would have a drop in investment if
improve, saying that most districts reported consumer prices holding steady. the key one, economic activity expanding in most districts. last month we saw the economic activity expanding and nine of the districts, getting a similar story from the fed beige book. also saying that wage growth varied considerably by variance there. we will get more on the labor market leader once we get that monthly jobs report from the government. get right over to the markets desk where julie hyman is sitting. any reaction, julie? julie: typically we don t see a big reaction to the bache book, right? it just gives color. the fed saying that consumer spending rose in the majority of the middle of in headwinds from a weak energy sector. no surprises there. second that the stronger dollar with global headwinds is hurting exports again. we are already seeing stocks in a tight range and they remain within a tight range as well the nasdaq has been the day and it remains it as stocks bounce around. l
processing more oil, up 7/10 of 1%, and if you take a look, as i oil versus theof s&p 500, the s&p 500 is in yellow, and not a perfect correlation, but oil not hurting with the action we have seen in the s&p 500, and i also want to call up the set errors. call up the sectors. chor: we can see that the mining stocks are doing the best, almost a 50% gain for those stocks year to date. also andergy energy also. they are keeping the major ones in float. we have been monitoring all day chesapeake energy, the company that aubrey mcclendon founded. he was killed in a car crash in oklahoma city and was in died because of alleged collusion with another company over the whereeing paid for land drilling was taking place, so we are seeing those shares up 34% right now. other oil providers have also been rising, and these aims have been even amid a sharp decline in natural gas. it is trading at a 17-year low, morgan stanley coming out predicting a recovery, but that is not helping pri