Data check. Stocks them to be advancing. Dollar, treasuries, both slipping. The dollar is edging lower and treasuries are rising as janet yellen said she will step down when her term ends in february. I also wanted to talk to you about the turkish lira, you can see it at the bottom of your screen. It hit a record low against the dollar. We will get plenty more on your market moves. Now, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian u. S. President donald trump is designating north korea a state sponsor of terrorism. The regime to additional sanctions. North korea joins syria and the sedan on the u. S. Terrorist list. This will impose sanctions on north korea and related persons and supports hour maximum Pressure Campaign to isolate the murderous regime. Sebastian janet yellen has said she will step down from the board of governors wants her successor is sworn into office. It widens the scope for donald trump to shape the Central Bank Leadership for years to come. Jerome
Reactions from what we saw from pyongyang. You, thest i can give equity market, the stoxx 600 was down earlier. Down by 4 10 of 1 . Assetst sets haven after the testing. North korea is continuing to prepare for a possible intercontinental listed Missile Launch, reddening to raise tensions further. The stock is down. A Good Opportunity to look at the fear gauge. Europes fear index. , now it is up a mere 7 . The 12 gained it was the highest since august 18. Last tuesday when north korea fired the missile over japan, higher index closed 9 after rising an intraday 15 . Trumps fire and fury comment in early august prompted it to rise to 19. 3 on august 11. That was the highest since april. We were nowhere to the levels we were in april before the French Election and the levels we reached before the u. S. Election last november. Those are the brexit levels we saw in june last year. That puts it in perspective. Europes fear gauge. Index, given what is happening with the north korea story. Thi
Check out what is happening to european london european stocks. Stocks arising for the second day for the biggest weekly increase in two months it sterling low against the dollar down by. 2 . June 24 last year, biggest weeks biggest weekly gain last year. Sterling rallying 3 against the dollar as the boe turns hawkish. Up fiveyear yield is basis points, higher since august 22 after rising 15 basis points last week. You know the fmos fomc meets this week. Dropped theounts most since january after a. Ecord expansion lets get the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian a peaceful resolution with north korea but Rex Tillerson has warned his two parents use military force if necessary. Those comments came as trump prepares to ask allies to confront the regimes threat. In a tweet, trump mocked kim jong un as a rocket man. Marias wins have picked up eight to five miles per hour. Warnings are being issued to several islands. The u. S. Is bring for rain, and beach erosion. The day has lowered its
Face setting up their own health systems. The estimate could the a blow to republican attempts to round up enough votes to get the bill on the senate floor next week. The white house says it did not sign off on what had been two dozen jet trips made by hhs secretary tom price. He took 24 flights on private planes since he became a cabinet secretary in february. The Health Department defended the trips saying his schedule was difficult and his workdays long. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live from new york. With 30 minutes from the closing bell and u. S. Stocks take a long weekend. Trading unchanged in the close. Miss . Hatd you scarlet Angela Merkel made that to her tenure but at what cost . Ise lithium battery si led. Lit. Julia senator john mccain saying he would oppose the latest Obamacare Repeal measure and that deals a major deal to blow. Is it came over . Game
Emails for a break for a prankster pretending to be the chairman. Im guy johnson alongside tom king. Been quite a week. Quite a week. Had im not sure there is a correlation between your being here. Tom it has been an exhausting week. I cannot remember a week like that. We have got more reporting on that to all of surveillance. There is still a lot of other news out there including the german election. To the big one. Lets take a look at what is happening with the data. These are the numbers you need to know. The stoxx 600 barely budging. Tom, do you know what . We have had the biggest info into european equities on record this week. An in some ways, it has been incredible week but the equity markets have not reflected it. The german 10year is not moving very much. Tom maybe an oil lift. Guy up by. 2 . Tom i decided to do a data check. There is not much going on. That in itself is news. Let me get to my chart. A bloomberg chart on the atlanta gdp. For those of you not familiar, vyediffe