crosshairs as the u.s. is said to double auto imports. leaving on a high. strong growth in the year and seeking a successor to the ceo. good morning, everybody. welcome to bloomberg markets: european open. this is the picture for european equities. exuberance in the asian session picking up what happened in the united states on friday. it doesn t look like it will translate into exuberance on monday s session here in europe. let s show you where we are. over in the asian equity session, the highest level since october. this really echoes what we saw on friday in the united states where we saw equities doing very nicely, hitting a 10 week high. remember, it is a holiday in the united states today. president s day. keep an eye on volumes. optimism around trade. it is the gift that keeps on giving. we did get those comments out of the chinese delegation and president trump has been tweeting about things have been developing. we see some mixed response but, in general, we are p
highest of nine months. gainsre hanging onto the and the nasdaq going more deeply in the red after some disappointing earnings reports. one of the main themes of the session has to do with commodities. this is the imap and you will see materials and energy stocks if you take a look at that imap are the two best-performing groups. materials up 1.5% and energy up 1.4% even though the imap wheel is looking a bit mixed at the moment. something else i wanted to look at is a global commodity monitor. columnlook of the third over there, it is almost all green today. the only exception being sugar. in other words, we have a very broad commodity rally today from energy to metals to act. some of that is due to the decline that we are seeing in the u.s. dollar could the . the bloomberg dollar index hitting its lowest since last june. we have seen that in advance and a lot of those commodities. having to deal with the u.s. dollar is that short on the u.s. dollar are going to a higher lev
the bank. welcome to countdown. 6:00 here in london. let s go straight to the asian market story. biggest weekly advance in six weeks. it was looking like it some of thoseg games early in the session but we have seen a pickup again. the shanghai composite up by around half of 1%. shanghai headed for a weekly advance. we have had career closing pretty flat. the nikkei closing higher by about 1/10 of 1%. some good gains australia. up about one third of 1%. in hong kong, things looking a little bit flat at the moment. , the mood has been a little bit weaker in the afternoon session. some of the main stocks we have been watching. the league performer in terms of percentage points of the msci regional pacific index. that is out in north and south agreed to talks. sharpton japan having its best to date again in four months after an expected return to profitability. reports that is going to launch a new budget. elsewhere, prime primary health care in australia lowered its profit
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