Sonali welcome to bloomberg markets. Lets look at the markets quickly. We have a lot of red on the screen. We have the s p 500 now down about one half of 1 . The nasdaq 100 is seeing bigger can kleins. The russell 2000 even more than that. Its now down about 1. 5 on the day, quickening its losses and thats on the back of higher yields. The twoyear yield just flying higher. Its above 4. 67 on the day. Thats a three basis point move. You have to remember how far weve come. We will dive into the Economic Data we had this morning that is driving the yields higher. Michael mckee joins us now to bring us up mike mike to date. This is a nerd indicator. Business inventories are just out at the moment. Its not a really good number. 0. 0 after a 0. 3 increase the month before. That is down from 0. 4 . It suggests the u. S. Is not building inventories as much as people might have thought. There was a feeling that because gdp has shown inventories declining for the last months that we would see fa
Here next week. And this morning millions of people on the west coast are bracing for a onceinalifetime storm, hurricane hilary bearing down as we speak, the first tropical system there in nearly a century. Hilary has already turned deadly in mexico dropping heavy rain, washing out roads, triggering flash flooding, and now new warnings this morning and new concerns about all the water this storm is set to drop on bonedry Southern California and whether that region can handle it. Well have the latest in a live report and your forecast just ahead. Plus, our quugs sunday focus on the hit movie the blind side. A feelgood movie taking an ugly turn. Then our sunday spotlight on the Island Community off the coast of maryland at risk of disappearing under water just a few decades from now and the people who live there and who are moving there who say they dont plan to go anywhere. Later as wee continue oscar august, willies sunday sitdown with h golden glolobe winner austinn butler on steppig
Not civilians. But air strikes have Hit Civilians , the Palestinian Health Ministry Says at least 51 people were killed on wednesday night. The World Food Programme has distributed some aid, but the un has warned that israel is in breach of International Law by denying civilians access to Essential Supplies of food, fuel and water. Ii of its own staff there have been killed since saturday. Bbc verify is continuing to monitor the impact of the strikes in gaza. One was on the Islamic University of gaza, targeted between tuesday and wednesday. Several videos, released by the Israel Defense forces have shown their attacks. Meanwhile, hamas fighters continue to fire rockets into israel. Many have been intercepted by the countrys iron dome defence system, but a few have broken through. The death toll in israel since hamas s attack on saturday has reached 1,200. More than 1,100 have died in gaza in israeli airstrikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formed a unity government wit
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Anna welcome to the program. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Manus is in dubai. A new headline, we will alert you to that before we jump into the markets. The Weinstein Company has filed for bankruptcy after sale collapses. Lets move to what has been happening in the asian equity session. Futures up by. 8 , the dollar index down by. 3 . Were in limbo waiting for jay powell to speak. He spaced tomorrow and on thursday. Euro, and pound moving stronger against the retreat in the dollar. As to question jay powell, we get our first real market introduction to him in this current role. What we have said about wages, asset prices, and where janet yellen has taken the fed. Manus yeah. And on that whole concept, what will you get for mr. Powell . Most say markets will simply yawn, but have a look at this. The bond market may not yawn. A stronger yen is helping the bond market this morning. This is too bearish, too far. Bond yields have risen 22 times, to 2. 94 . They are at a record high. Th