You know what, it is a reprimand from the Federal Reserve system and the office of comptroller. That is what is speculated. Francine this is what is getting a lot of attention today. Later on bloomberg, we will hear from ray dalio, bridgewater founder and chief executive officer, at 2 30 p. M. In new york, 7 30 p. M. In london. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the west coast wildfires have become a campaign issue. President trump and california state officials sparred over whether Climate Change is contributing to the blazes. The president insists that poor management is the culprit, joe biden called him a corporate arsonist. Mexico, the hurricane has now been downgraded to a category one mexico. Sally will make landfall tonight or early tomorrow, but where is difficult to say. Hurricane warnings extend from new orleans to the florida panhandle. There he kaine is feared to bring deadly storm surge and flooding. Boris johnsons lawbreaking brexit bill has cleared its
Court in germany. I really fascinating spiders web that has been woven. Here in the u. S. Come of the s p 500 up 1. 5 at 2886. A risk on tone in the market as you hear about tariff exclusions extended for up to 12 months on some chinese goods. Also oil rallying. It got up to 30 a barrel earlier. Yesterday, we spoke with one of the Texas Railroad commissioners. Wasaid that prorationing dead on arrival, but that permian producers could ration themselves. That is what we are seeing today. They have cut production today, and we are hearing that others will cut production in the next few months. We are also just getting a headline from that regulator meeting right now. Texas Oil Regulator asks producers for ways to reduce flaring. As we all know, following the story, flaring was one of the ways that Oil Producers got rid of the excess oil coming out of the ground, but it was not going anywhere. Of the regulators is asking producers for ways to reduce flaring. Crude is now trading at 23. 50
Surveillance. These are your markets. We are seeing a bit of an upside as it comes to the stoxx 600. One thing, the lse is investigating some of the delays on what they are seeing in the stock price. There was a trade issue, which means we have delayed opening for some of the biggest stocks. We understand the lse, the London Stock Exchange, will give us an update in about 15 minutes from now at 9 15 bsc. There is a bit of a risk on. 1. 55. 0 year yield at if you look at dollars stabilizing, 110. 85. Later, we will review an exclusive interview with Brian Moynihan, a banc of america chief executive. In the meantime, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. A Trading Services issue. Trading some of the biggest stocks on the London Stock Exchange has been delayed, the second such outage in a little more than a year for one of europes guest markets. Been delayed for parts of the ftse 100 and to 50. Other parts are operating as normal. Is a special relationship i
Negative rates. Tom well inflation is there, and as we go to mario draghi. Im really interested in talking to lord Meghnad Desai. We efforted the queen. She turned us down. Francine well, for now. Tom our team did not come through. Francine well. I have the newspaper, the sun newspaper. Because i never read it or show it on air. Now lets get to the bloomberg news. It was a stunning loss for democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The polls show clinton leading by double digits. And clinton showed support for them. The peoples revolution. That we are talking about. The Political Revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country, and frankly, we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. Francine meanwhile clinton did win the mississippi primary. She now has slightly more than half the delegates she needs for the nomination. Donald trump tightens his hold on the republican race. He won the caucuses in hawaii. The single biggest story is whats happening
7 00 if youre watching in amsterdam. Get to the phillips breaking numbers. , 374 quarter adjusted million euros. They are saying that the lighting separation process is well on track and that is a key topic of conversation. They are trying to exit the lighting business. Whether that is an ipo or a sale. How well is the medical equipment part of the business doing as they are trying to suffer out the lighting separate out the lighting part . They are looking to streamline their costs, adding on Servicing Agreements and incorporating more technology into their health care products. They have hired banks to prepare for this possible ipo of the liking business. We will speak to the chairman and ceo at ex 40 this morning on countdown. Just for a little bit of comparison, that revenue number looks to be ahead of estimates. That is the Early Morning earnings season that started monday. Over in asia, a conversation a combination of oil prices and a strengthening yen. Lets put that in a little