Afternoon if you are watching from asia. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Ato era july manufacturing 46. 5, a touch above expectations. Watch,llar is one to also the u. S. 10 year yield. The markets broiled from what we heard jay powell say. Said they peace time rate cut has had an impact on the dollar extending. European stocks up. Pound is the one we have been watching for. 2110, this depends on whether goes for a hard brexit. Oil, 57. 8. We have an exclusive conversation with an exclusive executive and joining us later, the global head of research for blackrock. Before we get to all that, lets get to the first word news in new york city. Quarterpoint cut from the benchmark rate by the fed. That says it will stop drinking the Balance Sheet in august shrinking the Balance Sheet in august. This move dashes hope for a move. Er dovish it is intended to ensure against Downside Risk from week Global Growth and policy uncertainty. To promote a faster return of inflation to symmetric 2 objectiv
That european equities are largely on holiday and think that trend does actually continue. The stoxx 600 is down by 1. 1 today. Theres a big china effect, but in this youre looking at names like hsbc, which has a u. K. Effect as well, but also a chinese effect. Plus some of the miners acting as a little bit of a drag. So stoxx 600 down, maybe moving away from that 460 level. The names that i think are actually interesting today speak kind of against that narrative. The european consumer seems to be alive and well right now. The u. K. Consumer seems to be alive and well right now, which is surprising considering what is being chucked at them. Marks and spencer, the stalwarts of the british high street, has been revamping its stores, refining its strategy. Its beginning to work. Theyve upgraded their numbers. But its interesting, its not just in clothing. Its also in high end groceries as well. This is fascinating. This was unexpected. Marks and spencer responding to it. Look at that sha
Mark welcome to surveillance, im mark barton in london. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 9 , rising for the fourth day in five, contract for the best week since december, 2016. The european gains surging 2. 8 . Year, coming. S. 10 down today, breaking below 2. 9 , is where we are today. We closed above 2. 9 percent yesterday, the highest level since december 2014. Today, export and import data. Spot indexrg dollar is lower today by about 0. 25 . Sincee lowest level december 2014. A growing number of economists forecast the fed will step up the pace of rate increases. The u. S. Twin deficit becoming a likely catalyst for a new wave of dollars selling after a brief respite, i say a brief respite in february. This is coming up on surveillance today. We talk with the chief executive of metro bank. Withr, we talk the 10 year ylagos. Mateos taylor riggs joins us from new york. Reporter the u. S. Senate has blocked four immigration proposals, leaving a bitter impasse over how to protect 1. 8 million
We meet in the vicechairman of blackrock, the worlds biggest money manager which handles more than 5 trillion in assets. 10 years on from the financial crisis, what have we learned . We learned we had too much leverage in the system. When you have too much leverage, bad things happen and the effects tend to be amplified. That is the key take away from it all. We have learned this notion of letting the market be totally free and governments should get out of the way, that is not a good idea. Thanks needed much more capital than they had at the time, capital levels were excessive. Some of these banks were leverage nearly 100 times, and that has always been the key takeaway. I wish we had focused more on the capital issue and less on the other things that have made it into the Regulatory Reform realm. Francine is there concerned we are over regulating and we will miss the next one . Leaders with lacqua, i philipp i think we should not have any illusions. I think we need to be realistic. I
We also have to tightly look at oil. Tom i have never seen an earnings season like this. You have to go back to early 2009 or 2008 for the excitement and mystery of what we are going to see. We have those layoffs, citigroup, and now jpmorgan. On a small number of people. Francine yes. We will be bringing you the very latest off the bloomberg. Lets get straight to bloombergs first world news. Nejra thanks. More turmoil for the brussels airport, only this time it is a walkout by air Traffic Controllers. The airport is already reeling from the terrorist attacks that killed 16 people. Todays labor strike is disrupting flight that the hub. It began over a dispute over the working age of Traffic Controllers to 58. Syrians are voting today in parliamentary elections. Some 3500 candidates combined for the 2500 parliamentary seats. President Bashar Alassad voted early in the elections, which are taking place in government controlled parts of the country. Now to brazil, where the Vice President