With the United States. We start within a positive note. Nejra funding the deficit, the u. S. Will start issuing twentyyear bonds in the first half of 2020. It comes as Steve Mnuchin continues to review bonds. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. The data out of china and the u. S. Putting risk on across markets today, taking a look at asia, green on the screen for the Msci Asia Pacific index. He saw all three u. S. Benchmarks hit records again and tech stocks were leading that rally. Alphabet above a 1 trillion valuation for the first time. Futures look like we could build on those gains. We saw green on the screen yesterday and it looks like another day of gains. Switching out the board to look at other assets, the yen has been posting a little bit of weakness. We are at eight months low. Yield edged up after retail sales data and some other data out of the u. S. Pointed to a stronger consumer. 182 handle is where we sit. We have seen steepening after that announcement from siva mnu
A warm welcome to the program, live from london on anna edwards. Lets look at where the markets are trading. I have a chart that shows the post or exit vote bounce we are. Eeing in the Global Market the relief rally following the brexit vote is entering its third day. We have the pound versus the dollar also bouncing a little bit and the red line marks the point where we started getting those results coming in that suggested were heading towards brexit. Lets work out where we are in. Erms of the overnight trading weve got the msci asiapacific of by 1 . More than 1 as result. The broader conversation is very interesting at the moment. Odd measureike an of gold. I will just tell you its 1513 per troy ounce. 24 increase in the gold price year to date. The pound also down by a round. 25 . Little changed against the euro if you looking for any expression of the result of the brussels meetings. It seems that brussels is still taking a fairly firm line. The yen has had a very good belt more f
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Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits putting politics aside. The Justice Department went through a dark area in my view under the Previous Administration when politics far too often became part of the analysis and i want to thank the career, Justice Department employees who worked so hard and long under you to make sure that the rule of law is berserk. Let me turn to a pa
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