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i m francine lacqua in london. a lot of news to get through. it is ecb. u.k. election. we cannot talk about polling, anything to do with the various issues at play, but what we can tell you is polls open at 7:00 a.m. in the u.k. and will close at 10:00 p.m.. you will have the first indication of who will be the prime minister of the u.k.. meantime, let s get on to data. investors seem to be a little more at ease with some of the key events. we are not seeing huge moves. financial markets mostly steady, investors avoiding big positions ahead of key events in europe. the u.s. and the testifying of edgingomey appeared oil higher. a nice snapshot of what we are looking at. 46.04.il in the u.s. at workerst to the first first word news with nejra cehic. in the u.k., polling stations are now open for the country s second general election in two years. 650 westminster mps will be elect did with 46.9 million people registered to vote. on the for our special u.k. election 10:00 ....
bloomberg that even members of his own party don t want to deal with the european union. this is bloomberg surveillance . we ve just got to get to some breaking news for you. we ve got eurozone services pmi data and the composite coming through. let s look at the services first. we coming in at 56. this is a miss. was 56.5.ation it is a little weaker than the prior reading. at composite index coming in 56.4, again a miss on the survey and a little weaker from the prior reading. 1.0676, pretty much unchanged on that trade. let s get to your markets. speaking of things that are unchanged, quiet in equity markets. i wanted to show you the rand. , the randdollar-rand strengthening, best-performing currency against the greenback today. we did see it rebounding yesterday and we ve had some news that the markets are reading as positive for president jacob zuma. the 10 year yield down to basis points. we saw the 10 year treasury yield within touching distance of the lower bou ....
tom: you see a bunch of headlines and it shows disparity in yields. us dehn is going to join where you have a 14% yield. there is what we observed yesterday. francine: the dissent, i do you had there is relief on a lot of our markets today. when you look again, the reversal, right? after the initial encouraging news. reversal.tle we ll get this to the data check, 108.2 p a little weaker yen today 108.2. a little weaker yen today. the confusion i heard about yesterday. we have guests that will maybe explain this. francine: let s get to bloomberg first word news. taylor, the governor of north carolina has declared a state of emergency after he second night of violence. police firingthe tear gas at demonstrators. in tuesday s shootings, a black man refused the demand to drop his gun. some residents say he was unarmed. there is a report that yahoo! is poised to confirm a massive data breach. several hundred million yahoo! user accounts have been exposed. word of the bre ....
so many earnings out and the picture is not great. tom: an exceptionally slow day. the barclays story is important but super is the back drop in washington across the south this morning but we need to look at finance and investment. francine, what i am focused on more than anything is trying not to stay up too late to find out who won. francine: because you are expected to follow the market. breaking news out of the euro area. yesterday we had lower-than-expected inflation. today, unemployment overall is a little bit better than expected. that s just the latest in terms of breaking news. up,economy finances coming but first let s get straight to the first word news of caroline hyde. caroline: francine, thank you. presidential hopefuls the biggest day of the primary calendar. polls indicate that republican front-runner donald trump will win most of the contests the big fight is for second place between marco rubio and ted cruz. meanwhile, bernie sanders is hoping to ....
you can also get through on social media. lively conversation already going on on facebook. @c-spanwj.t to or e-mail address is journal@cspan. org. do u.s. colleges have a race problem is our question. here is the wall street journal s morning alarticle. universities are struggling to balance the free exchange of ideas with students growing desire to be shield by offensive views. at the heart of protests that have roiled campuses around the country. the missouri to yale to university of california, public and private schools have become embroiled in conversation and controversies that has faculty concerned about the stifling of free speech, and many students upset that their appeals to rid campuses of intolerance and racial insensitivity are being given short strip. while the tension between political correctness and open en colleges foriv decades, a hunger strike in protest over racial incidents that forced of the university of missouri s presidents on monday have su ....