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Happy friday. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me. A new rihanna song. Yes. Lets check in on the global markets. Another rally yesterday on wall street. We closed off the highs. Got within 50 points of dow 20,000 then backed off of those highs. Financials leading the gains. Looks like some strength again this morning. The dow futures indicating an open of around 12 points. S p futures are flattish, nasdaq down about 3 points. Tenyear treasury note yield the bond selloff continued to dominate. The stronger dollar has taken center stage. Tenyear note yield at 2. 55. Actually near the high end of the range that we have seen. Selling off especially in the short end of the curve. The twoyear notes earlier this week and spreading throughout the curve. Today just seeing yields come down a bit. Bonds being bought up a bit. Yesterday the tenyear hit a high of 2. 64 . Quite a big move in the short end hitting highs not seen since 20
A stinging attack on londons brexit preparations. How close to the mark are his comments . Well talk about all of those issues. Lets talk about where the markets are now. The nikkei out of the gate this morning, playing catch up by 2. 5 . Keep an eye on that. Really interesting story. Were watching whats happening with whole milk. Were talking about whole milk. The reason im talking about that is it has had an impact on the kiwi this morning. The yen is down by. 2 . The others a little bit higher. Were watching the continuation of the story. Plus oil prices. A quick indication where equities are going to go today. We think well see a positive session. Lets get a first word update. Guy, thank you. Britains Prime Minister needs to be told the uncomfortable truth about the difficultiesor negotiating brexit. Thats according to theresa mays former envoy to european union. He quit as the u. K. s permanent representative to the e. U. Yesterday and urged british officials working in brussels t
Commodities, the south american nation having success . We will speak to the incoming codirector of their central bank. Lets look at where european equities are trading right now. And a 30 minutes until the close with a lift in european shares,he stoxx 600 up to 3 10 of 1 outperforming our commodity producers and oil, and gas shares. Stoxx 600 Energy Shares heading for the highest close since january. Tracking what we have seen with oil price. Earlier, wti and brent almost 1. 5 , those gains have moderated a little since we got the Oil Inventory data but still fairly resilient. I want to show you this technical chart on brent crude, the global benchmark. It closed above the upper band technical indicator for the first time this year. This is generally viewed as a buy signal. Something to keep an eye on as we continue to the week and see if we can maintain the resilient in the oil price. Read above 55 per barrel earlier in the session. , one stocksyngenta we are focused on in the europe
News in europe even before the attack. We have a chart to show you what was happening. So, less than half an hour away from the european open. This time yesterday, we were dealing with what was happening in brussels. The market pushing beyond that fairly quickly. On the equity front, looks like we will be slightly positive. Button, pushing the you get this fair value cut collation. Looks like the euro stocks will be up by about half a percent. They rose into the close yesterday. That is a significant take away. The ratio may be position for negative news. We show you that chart little later. Also this one here, an extension of a story we were bringing you yesterday. I would say is brexit positioning. The pound affected down, you. Hen had data it is sort of a risk off story at the moment. Ae eurodollar is pushing little bit lower, so be aware of that as well. Heres the bloomberg first word news. The belgian state broadcaster has identified two brothers among the suicide brothers bombers