Investors, waiting, chomping at the bit after the feds announcement on Interest Rates a little later. An Interest Rate hike is forecast. 2018 the expectation for and 2019 that will be in focus. The bloomberg dollar index, in the wake of the Alabama Senate election, falling today. Down by about 0. 2 . Crude rising ahead of key stockpile data. Marketsp, we will talk with christian nolting. With lapos elkann and Dennis Gartman. Sebastian the European Union againsted the u. K. Rollback on the agreement they have made last week. Michel barnier says britain cannot try to unpick the deals they made on friday. Still, europes leaders are planning to hand the u. K. A carrot for future relations. Former french president Francois Hollande says hes is a possibility for britain to strike a trade deal, but speaking exclusively to manus cranny, he cautioned that there are certain red lines. Eresident hollande a trad agreement is always possible, but it needs to be clear that it cant happen at any cost
Billion in shares. Disneys already the worlds Top Entertainment company this move gives it an even bigger arsenal of movies and shows as it battles the rise of Online Streaming Services like netflix and amazon. It also marks the end of half a century of empire building by 86 year old Rupert Murdoch as our media editor amol rajan reports. When Rupert Murdoch bought the news of the world in 1968, he was an outsider. But this canny australian with news in his veins made his way to the heart of the establishment in both britain and america, wielding extraordinary influence. From his base in tabloid newspapers, he moved aggressively into film and television, owning studios and networks that entertained hundreds of millions of people. But now, fox has become a division of disney. In a phone conference today, Rupert Murdoch explained his strategy. I know a lot of people will be asking why the murdochs came to such a momentous decision. Are we retreating . Absolutely not. We are pivoting at a
Aerkst prompting the retailer to turn its focus online. Shakeup in the skies. The airbus ceo, tom enders, announces his exit with the coo stepping down as well from troubled planemaker. And President Trump says the disney fox deal will be a great thing for jobs as ceo bob iger tells cnbc its a consumerfriendly tieup. Theres risk associated, whether you look at the price or the regulatory side or whether you look at the complexity of integrating companies this size. That risk was well worth taking on good morning, everybody. It is friday tgif lets see how the picture is trading in europe this morning we had a bit of a weakness over in the u. S. Trading session overnight. Dow jones and s p both ended the day lower after hitting intraday highs. Still some concerns about the tax bill being passed in congress, but well talk a little bit more about that later. And nikkei also did struggle in the overnight session, down despite Strong Manufacturing data the picture in europe is grim, stoxx 60
Wilfred frost. Lets check on Global Markets because we are on this friday seeing gains, at least on the futures side of things you can see futures pointing to a higher open, the s p up by about six points, the dow up by about 78 and the nasdaq up by about 13 points overall. Lets get a check on the fixed income markets on the treasury side specifically with the tenyear u. S. Treasury note, yields are 2. 362 , a little lower than they have been over the last couple of days. So the Interest Rate picture taking a little bit more clarity given the feds Interest Rate hike and some commentary about the future still, though, yields in focus, especially for those financials, courtney. Lets look at whats going on around the world in trading. So take a look at what happened in asia overnight. Mostly lower, as you can see the south korean kospi is the one outlier higher by about 0. 5 the hang seng was the biggest laggard, down 1 a lot of focus on whats going on here in the u. S. When it comes to o
Eurodollar. We are seeing a little bit more of dollar strength. We did hear from the European Central bank. One of its Board Members saying it should adjust its policy guide before the summer. It shouldnt have any problems in the inside of the asset purchases. Thats got the moves a little bit jittery. Its having an impact on eurodollar. Seeing a little bit of movement on those german bonds. , we have information from trumps first year. Later on, we get a view on trade in the global economy. Still to come, jim oneill. He talks emerging markets. To the firstaight word news. Nejra brent crude has gone through 70 for the first time in three years. Closing level yesterday. Hedge funds hit bullish bests. A view that opec and its partners will end their supply cuts early is spreading. All predicting a wind that will start from the middle of the year. Offeringgovernment is a proposal to bring on the taps. According to three people with knowledge, they are considering a plan to raise expenditur