Mark welcome to surveillance, im mark barton in london. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 9 , rising for the fourth day in five, contract for the best week since december, 2016. The european gains surging 2. 8 . Year, coming. S. 10 down today, breaking below 2. 9 , is where we are today. We closed above 2. 9 percent yesterday, the highest level since december 2014. Today, export and import data. Spot indexrg dollar is lower today by about 0. 25 . Sincee lowest level december 2014. A growing number of economists forecast the fed will step up the pace of rate increases. The u. S. Twin deficit becoming a likely catalyst for a new wave of dollars selling after a brief respite, i say a brief respite in february. This is coming up on surveillance today. We talk with the chief executive of metro bank. Withr, we talk the 10 year ylagos. Mateos taylor riggs joins us from new york. Reporter the u. S. Senate has blocked four immigration proposals, leaving a bitter impasse over how to protect 1. 8 million
Timing right come if we do it too we could derail the theast, both th timing right, if we do it too fast we could derail the entire thing. Mark this is bloomberg surveillance and im mark barton. A pmi for manufacturing and services, that is the composite fromed to 55. 9 in october 56. 7. Economists predicted the measure would drop to 56. 5. Job creation in manufacturing rose to the highest levels since Data Collection started in 1997, reflecting strong order inflows. Service Sector Employment also strengthened. You have got to see the recovery is gathering pace, just as the central bank convenes this week to decide on how to gradually pulled back monetary support. Thee is the euro against dollar. The stoxx 600 is a little bit lower today, down by about 0. 2 . Earlier it was up for the third consecutive day. The bloomberg dollar spot index is rising for the third day, the highest level since july 13. Investors eagerly awaiting President Trumps pick for the next fed chair. Theres a conse
Inauguration late last week. Im very proud of that. Very proud of that. The Business Community and the labor community, you saw that with the labor leaders that came out. One said it was the single greatest meeting i ever had with anybody. Its the highlight of my life. The dow on top of it just hit 20, first time in history. Im very proud of that. Now we have to go up, up, up. We dont want it to stay there. Vice president mike pence tweeting the dow closes above 20,000 for the first time in history. U. S. Economy is being unleashed under President Trump. Lets get you caught up on whats going on. We have a 30 billion pharma deal. Johnson johnson buying actelion for 280 per share in cash after weeks of exclusive talks. We talked about this transaction before. A 23 premium to its Closing Price yesterday. Both companys boards have aprefapref approved that deal. Today is the busiest day of earnings season, 38 companies in the s p 500 reporting results along with three dow components. Before
York, boston and philadelphia. Were here at the nasdaq. Things are moving just as expected. The New York Stock Exchange is expected to operate normally. Take a look at the u. S. Equity futures. They are indicated slightly lower after a mixed day yesterday for the markets. The dow futures are down by 13 points. S p futures down by less than a point. The nasdaq down by 1. 7. Overnight, in asia, there were some red arrows when it came to the nikkei, which was down by 0. 10 . The hang seng was flat, the shanghai was too. In some early trading in europe, youll see that tlinhings are relatively flat there as well. German chancellor Angela Merkel meeting with President Trump, its been postponed. I said we would give you headlines nothing to do with the snow, but this is because of the snowstorm. Merkel was on the way to the airport when she received a call from President Trump to delay the visit. She continued on to the airport and told reporters on the plane the trip was canceled. That is no
There. The cac in france down by close to 1 . In italy the ftse was down by 2. 19 . The dax is off by just ov over. 60 . Also, well check out crude oil prices today. Crude oil after a big rebound you can see is down by 1. 25 . Wti for july, that is a new contract, is now trading at 47. 81. Okay. We have a big top story to talk about this morning. A potential deal, jer m bayer o a deal valued at 62 billion to buy monsanto. Lets talk to bayers ceo about th this, werner baumann, your decision came about how . Monsanto received a private offer from us. It was out in the open and we want to explain to the public and to shareholders what the content of the offer is and why it is so attractive to shareholders. Should we be taking your public stance as one where there are private negotiations are taking place, or should we take you going public to educate the public on what is going on and to put pressure on monsanto . Well, we are early days at this point in time. And we have submitted our of