Heads of organizations. This hour, we will also be speaking to one of the biggest names in private equity, jon moulton, and then later Nicolas Dufourcq. Overall, stocks in asia seem to be dropping a touch. European stocks were mixed and bonds rising as investors focused switching back to Central Banks. Several policymakers were cautious about raising Interest Rates again this year. The dollar weakening a touch, you can see. Thats your business flash. Lets get straight on to the bloomberg first world news. Nejra donald trump has said he will announce whether or not he will decertify the iran nuclear deal, quote, shortly. Thats ahead of the deadline this sunday. Trump has called the agreement a badly negotiated deal. Has denied ever calling for a bigger u. S. Nuclear arsenal. His comments came response to an nbc report that he had asked for a tenfold increase in u. S. Nuclear capabilities. He also questioned whether the broadcast license should be taken away from nbc television. Ofbrusse
The spectrum. We look at Asset Classes and gold and yen and, looking, of course, the geopolitics. In the meantime, this is what the data is telling us. A reminder for all of you americans, it is Independence Day. The markets in the u. S. Are closed, which means we are seeing a little bit thin trading, a selloff in risky assets globally as north korea claimed a successful Intercontinental Missile launch. Havens both advancing. You can see the vix a touch up at 11. 22. We will have plenty more on the markets but lets get to the first word news. Nejra speaking of risky assets, oil has halted gains after the longest winning streak after rude shows that opecs c production rose to its highest level in june. The increase came from libya and nigeria which are exempt from making cuts under the deal agreed between opec and its allies. Janet yellen was hospitalized over the weekend and luncheon for treatment of a Minor Infection and is heading home. Yellen was admitted on friday and released yest
Yesterday after those minutes from the Federal Reserve. You can see the eurodollar pretty much unchanged, off 0. 1 . Lets look at how european stocks are doing following the recession lower. The stoxx 600 off by 0. 6 . European stocks set for there were drop in more than a month. Thanks underperforming. Part of that down to the minutes we got from the fed, signals that the Federal Reserve may look at shrinking the Central Banks Balance Sheet. Also, about equity prices being high. You are seeing a weaker dollar, stronger yen. If you look at the bloomberg dollar index, we seeing that recover a little bit. It is ever so slightly higher. Eurodollar, we are also closely watching after comments from ecb president mario draghi. 1. 0646. Lar at the bund yield one basis point number as well. Now lets get the bloomberg first word news. Saidtian President Trump an apparent poison gas attack in syria which killed more than 70 people has changed his thinking on the civil war. He called heinous acti
Month . It could be for Global Markets as a rough start sense fx thetility and pushes shanghai composite to its longest losing streak since january. I certainly would not describe this as a bubble economy. We have relatively weak Global Growth but the u. S. Economy has been doing well and domestic strength has been propelling u s forward in in spite of the fact we are suffering a drag from the global economy. Francine the weak safety play set up treasuries for the biggest two week gain since january. Now, for more, we have the chart of the hour coming up a first heres mark with your asset check. Yen, on discussion of the i thought it would be lovely to do technical analysis, something we have not done on the dollaryen as talk turns to possible boj intervention. The dollar is rising against the yen. Many saying 105 is a key level for the boj to intervene. This is a 12 month chart, and it shows the dollaryen moving average as well as the price, which is down to 109. 7. The dollar has bee
New political realities. ,oining us now is mary matalin influential republican strategist and dancing your dan senor. You, telll start with us what is going to the speakers mind at this moment when donald trump is trying to unify the party and the speaker is not on board. He believed is it incumbent upon donald trump to unify the party, not his job or Mitch Mcconnells job, it is the nominees job. He was struck by these calls for party unity. Like everyone should just fall in line. He is not against getting behind a unifying figure but if there is some apprehension about unity now, that is Donald Trumps job. Asked whether he would support donald trump, he is a voter and a citizen, he is not there yet, what is required on Donald Trumps part . Dan he is serious questions about Donald Trumps temperament to be commanderinchief and judgment. What does he have to do . Dan he is not providing a checklist but saying over the next couple of months, earn my support. Trump has behaved in the last