francine: welcome to bloomberg: surveillance. this is what the markets are doing. i am francine lacqua in london. the stocks here are down 0.3%. a lot of the focus is on the earnings, on banks reporting, but there is little bit uneasiness of uneasiness when it comes to world growth and central-bank action. bankard from the central say they will not hit the inflation target anytime soon. brent, a lot of volatility, currently at 75.23. the dollar index has been advancing quite significantly, that is the bloomberg u.s. dollar index. coming up, more from our day forws on this big banks in europe. but first, let s get first word news from new york city. a clear timetable for her departure is the demand for lawmakers in theresa may s own party as brexit chaos continues. but this gives the prime minister a little breathing room . they shied away from changing party rules to make it easier to oust her, this coming as scotland s primus are called for a new independence vote. donal
for francine lacqua. a pause little bit of for thought in the equity markets with a little downside in europe. the stoxx 600 down by .25% after two days of some strength. performing well against and it is, up .3%, heading for a weekly loss. heading for a weekly gain, though, is wti. supply concerns out of libya and venezuela. prices were up .4%, trading at $63.83. and brent holding well above $70, at $71. coming up on bloomberg, we have european commissioner for economic and financial affairs. you can catch that at 5:30 p.m. london time. this is bloomberg. first word news with viviana hurtado. viviana: hi, nejra. look at these $3 billion operating loss last year for uber. poer has a lot riding on the i while the company reaches a $120 billion market value. $7 a month. that is how much walt disney s new streaming service is going to cost. it is set to launch on november 12. disney plus is what it will feature kids friendly programming and material from wars rvel and star fran
continent as well, we see the ftse index trading down and it has been all day. continental indexes have been doing well but the ftse s down. 1% stoxx 600 is down 1/10 of and the dax and the cac 40 is doing well. a little bit of recovery here. currencies, two days story has been a euro story. as we move closer to the possibility of a majority government in germany, that s the heavyweight anchor of europe with the euro trading up and it s now 100 it s now $1.19. late the talk collapsed sunday night, the euro dropped down to $1.17. talks inhe coalition germany, so goes of the euro. is closelyrket linked to what we have going on here. germanu have problems in talks, the yields or the spread is jumping up from spanish and german debt. all the yields are rising as investors sell debt. they are presumably using some of that money to buy equities. the german ten-year bund is 36 basis points. vonnie: thank you. the fridayinto trading davis thanksgiving week. abigail doolittle has th
billion. good morning, everybody. happy monday. this is bloomberg daybreak: europe. risk have a look at the radar. the tax story is very much epicenter of things for markets in the asian session and the united states on friday and of course, in the united states later on today. let s have a look at the msci asia-pacific, up by .8% right now. the markets are factoring in something more positive on a tax run. the republicans agreeing to their version of the tax plan that this is the penultimate trading week of 2017, reflecting what we saw on friday on wall street. i wanted to highlight what is happening in india. earlierhe sensex down on in today s session. it looks as if, he has come out victorious. we saw the sensex down by 2.6%, up by .7% in the indian session. by .2%. further to go on the tax bump story. we hit records on friday. could we see further gains in today s session in the middle of week? a vote in the house and senate, and all of this to do with reduced rates of