Holding in europe. Yes they are the dax, chief amongst the leaders with quite a significant gain this morning. 10year note yield, been hanging around the 2. 4 level there we are, 2. 378. You can see wti up 32 cents. Lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with that market rally you just saw the futures are pointing to new records on growingconfidence that republicans in the senate and house are going to pass that historic tax cut plan this week. Plus, well have more on csx, investors are worried given the turnaround strategy may be in doubt after the sudden death of Hunter Harrison. Surging in the premarket after an upgrade from jp morgan. And weve got plenty of deals to talk about this morning. Geez, we sure do. Well get to those and talk p g. Lets get to stocks first. They are on track to open sharply higher, this on optimism on passage of the tax reform legislation. The house is slated to vote on the bill tomorrow followed by the senate with republicans hoping to get it
Educated about the price they will pay for leaving. Manus will come to daybreak europe, our flagship morning show right here in the city of london. Im manus cranny. The world is absorbing and understanding just what the ramifications are for the actions of kim jongun. As it is understood that a Hydrogen Bomb, 10 times the size of the hiroshima bomb, was tested over the weekend in north korea. The prospect for a clean resolution and north korea are difficult to put into parameters. The money is going into gold and it is flowing into yet. Dollaryen at the bottom of the screen, even though money has run into the yen, it has literally retraced 50 . Of 9. 80, retracing 50 of its initial game. The position of the market, the situation over north korea appears to be a splitting. But the market is still short. Shorting the young is the third most popular that. Therefore, you can get a squeeze that could look ugly. Could you see a rerun of august 29 . The Ballistic Missile was fired over japan
Merkel stays in front. The only televised debate fails to move the political dial. Im being polite. Is a grand coalition the most likely outcome . Novartis and a surprise theuncement, they say that ceo will be replaced. Is it stoxx underperformance relative to its peer group . We are less than a half hour away from the start of european trading. Thats take a look at where futures are pointing after the north korean situation seems to be the one concern, after the bomb test, that markets could focus on today. Here you see futures down across the board. Or look at bunds across the sovereign debt spectrum, there is no cash trading. If you like it just look at ds, investors are buying the german debt. Looks like people are getting a little bit riskoff this morning in order to prepare themselves for the possible fallout. Guy ecb this week so we have to think about what that means coming out of frankfurt. It is riskoff. Riskoff. Big the u. S. Is closed but there is a reaction to the latest n
Seven minutes until the end of the monday session . No trading in the u. S. Because of the labor day holiday. The focus is very much on the european trading. European stocks falling for the first day, and investors turning to haven assets the day after north korea test of the nuclear bomb on sunday. All these markets, currencies are rising against the dollar today. ,he currency of choice yen swiss franc. Those of the best performing currencies. Bond yields are declining. Korea, gold is rising today, continuing above 1300. There is some Corporate News today. Surprised departure of chief executive Joseph Jimenez after eight years of the home of no rvartis. Medical officer, the global head of drug development, enez. Succeed m s on jim bloombergrn from the pharmaceutical index. This includes the struggling business and the stake in crosstown rival. , down9 . Rival, down 9 . The euro is up by 13 this year. That is the Dollar Exchange rate, the thick white line. This is very close to the hig
To approve an eu exit payment of up to 50 billion pounds. I am mark barton in london. Plenty of great guess including Raghavan Seetharaman on who joins us in half hour for his first interview of the day. Lets have a check on what is happening to European Equity markets. 5 . Toxx 600 is down by south korea detecting that north korea is continuing to prepare for a possible Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch, a move that would further raise tensions. Choice is the haven of in the currency market. It is rising against all 10 of its major peers. The dollar down by. 7 . The german tenyear yield is falling by two basis points, down to 36 basis points. High. Ising to an 11 month bloomberg first word news with juliette saly. Juliette market, u. K. Brexit secretary says he dismisses nonsense reports that theresa may approved to pay as much as 50 billion pounds to leave the european union. Brexit talks may fail to move on to trade discussions speculation was dismissed. Resolving the issues