france s finance ministers as a compromise is close, though president emmanuel macron has pushed ahead with his overhaul plans. in pro football, the dallas cowboys are hiring mike mccarthy to be their new coach, according to the associated press. mccarthy won a super bowl with green bay and took the packers to the playoffs nine times in 13 years. mccarthy will replace jason garrett, whose contract was not renewed after nine years of the head coach as the head coach of the cowboys. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i m mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. vonnie: it is 1:00 in new york, 6:00 in london, 2:00 in hong kong. i m vonnie quinn. welcome to bloomberg markets. from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, here are the top stories on the bloomberg and around the world that we are following. rising tension between the middle east and the u.s. president trump threaten
the margins there seems to be more optimism in the markets that the year-end won t bring the crunch we had forecast. this is the picture for european stocks up 0.1%. 1.3096.d, a phase one trade deal. at 96.3,ng in better-than-expected after they had a figure of 95.5 and that s moving euro a little bit. coming up we will discuss the and also don t miss our exclusive interview with the chief executive, that s coming up at 1:00 p.m. london time. let s get straight to the first word news in new york city. president trump is accusing speaker nancy pelosi of turning chamber. into a star powerump laying out his and obstructed congress. later today the house is effective vote to approve two articles of impeachment. the u.k. credit outlook has been upgraded by both s&p and after boris johnson s conservative party won a decisive majority in last week s elections. s&p raising the outlook from negative to stable. fitch taking them off rating watch negative. it removes the immediate th
week, the bullish sentiment reading, the retail investment strategy. many think, when they get super bullish, they will go in the right direction. aii s going south in 2016, same in 2017. last year, pretty correlated. right now, pretty divergent. the bullish sentiment reading at a three year low. some would say this is a bullish sign for stocks for the rest of the fourth quarter. metal: i ve got the palladium on the mind. offing a high today writing safe haven demand. china wants more talks before president xi agrees to sign phase one of trade deal. worries about the tightening supply of the metal are still in play. the middle has gained more than 35% year to date. incline since a steep drop that happens in june. taylor: we know that the treasury markets are closed today but one way we will be able to look at treasury yields is to look at the futures market. it is showing us that yields still are falling a little bit. we are down to about a 161 on the 10 year. know it has bee
cost be index with the south reaching its july highs against the u.s. dollar. let s have a look at where we are in chinese markets. we will talk about blockchain a little later. hang seng index flirting with 27,000. dollar china, sterling on the u.s. treasuries. he had the doj coming in shortly after. the fed widely expected to cut rates. trick or treat is how bank of america merrill lynch is calling that. among other things topping our minds as we get underway this friday. su keenan is waiting for us in new york with an update of your first word news. su: president trump is calling on the world to continue fighting islamic state. this, after announcing its leader is dead following a u.s. military raid in northwest syria. becomes thebaghdadi highest ranking terrorist leader killed or captured since obama trump said the u.s. is now targeting his likely successor. he is a sick and depraved man. and now he is gone. was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violen
surveillance. i am francine lacqua in london. here are your markets, you can see the stocks europe 600 is down. but nothing like some of the anxiousness we saw over the last couple of days. there is definitely a de-escalation, so in certain parts of the world, there is relief in the markets. i m looking at euro-dollar 1 .180. if you are looking at the yen, it is also a little bit off the anxiousness we see out there. this is the picture for the u.s. yield, one of the main metrics we have been following closely. look at the 30 year yield over the rest of the day. coming up, a conversation with mike wells, chief executive of prudential. let s get straight to a to bloomberg first word news. we begin with the german economy, shrinking in the second quarter, piling pressure on angela merkel. economyht, she said the was going through a difficult phase. from the previous three months, output fell and exports slumped as the trade war hit manufacturers. the italian prime minister