Stake. The head of our board has decided not to renew that agreement. Standard Life Aberdeen sees red after a 100 billion pound contract is ditched. And the end of the road for jacob zuma the South African outgoing president resigns ahead of a nonconfidence vote saying the anc should to the have forced him out this way make no mistake, no leader should stay beyond the time determined by the people they serve. Good morning airbus shares have taken flight to the top of the stoxx 600 after the Aerospace Giant reported a rise in fullyear operating profit and issued a bullish forecast for 2018. There was, however, a fresh 1. 3 billion euro charge related to its a400m military plane airbus raised its dividend also. Shares in nestle are heading the other direction as earnings disappoint investors shares hit a ten month low as the Company Announced a dividend below expectations lets look at some issues that those numbers have revealed. If we look, we can see the bottom line was mainly hit from
You are very welcome to the pulse. European leaders are speaking openly about the possibility of a grexit and say they now have a detailed plan in place in case black scenario happens. They have said sunday is the deadline for greece to accept a rescue or risk in booted out of the euro. For mroore we are joined by guy johnson in athens and hans nichols in berlin. Hes i nn brussels, excuse me,. Lets talk to guy. Guy, obviously, these banks are still close. Whats it like in greece at the moment . Guy well, people are beginning to wonder when they are going to open. What is interesting is youve got money pooling in certain areas of the economy and we need the Banking System to restart in order for this money to start moving around the system in the way this meant to do. The question is come next week what kind of money are we talking about . There is deadline come sunday. People are talking openly about a grexit. It is not going to be the flicking of us which. Youre not going to see greec
Percentage point and friends u france up. Up a quarter of a percentage point. Questionable reaction at will see muted reaction overall. Today, the relief we could have a deal done. You mentioned a oil. I want to bring that across. We are seeing oil lower. Down almost two percentage points. As applied to keep going as we have a deal in iran. A day deals. Greece and potentially iran. Sanctions potentially lifted as they strike an accord. Today greece when you looking at the equity markets and the bond market. Calming down of the periphery lets go to greece with the 10 year. 11 basis points. Clearly, money going into italy and spain and the periphery of europe. That fear of contagion removed. Similar moves for spain and the haven as we saw a earlier in trading. Rises in germany and bond prices falling. Leave you with a twoyear. Where you see significant moves and shortterm debt. Off by almost one percentage point. I will send it back to you. Jonathan the euro summit has unanimously reache
This is bloomberg surveillance. Final trading day of this week. Next week is a shortened trading we cure him london because of the main bank holiday. May bank holiday. Also on track for the Third Straight monthly advance, which is the best run since may 2016. Investors buoyed by the first round of the french president ial election on sunday. The next one is next sunday. Strolling up against the dollar. The best run since december. Highest since september last year. The best run for a month, also gaining for a second month. Gdp data at half past. That stopped sterling in its tracks as gdp comes in line with estimates, relative to the prior quarters. Today gdpr could see the economy expand at 1 annualized. Historically, the First Quarter has been week. Will the rest of the year make up for it . Will there be a shutdown, to name one issue . Trumps tax plan renegotiating. Geopolitical risks. Crude today is up, below 50 after a rally in the first half of april. Oil is set to end the month b
Overview on what we are expecting. The main asset class that are moving. He stoxx 600 gaining 1 . Were seeing Bond Investments from saudi arabia. Stocks rallying and commodities rallying. This has to do with speculation that that the fed will remain acome tavet. Let me bring over to my bloomberg terminal. This is the picture for the terminal. Let me get rid of my messages. This is the picture for the c. P. I. Harmonize. Data comes out in half an hour. This is what mccartney will look at to see what he can or cant do in terms of cutting Interest Rates. It has an impact on our prices and the blue sideline prices. Input prices significantly rising more than inflation so far. Lets get straight to the first word news. Barclays says investors should buy european equities regardless whether the Federal Reserve raises borrowing costs in the next three months. Given the support from Central Banks from around the globe, the overall picture is very supportive of stock markets. Australias Central