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pick amid tensions. rishaad: there we go. talking about apple. nasdaq,ows how the which hit another record high has been powered up by apple to some extent. you can see that with apple included in nasdaq s total , but if you growth remove apple, just shy of 160%. important apple is as a retains its status as the world s most valuable company. you have been taking a look at the yen, i believe. haidi: that s right. the two stories, apple and the , not much in terms of reaction on the equity s story. equity story. japanese markets not getting a chance to react to this yen weakness. , technicalsat this when it comes to where they again is at now, still above that 112 level. the dollar is at a short-term peak. we do have a call from rbc saying it should be easy to get but japanese markets are off until monday, some not getting a chance to get the boost from a weaker yen. we are 30 minutes away from the open. singapore, taiwan, and malaysia rey.ing the trading fo sophie: no ....
performance in what is normally its weakest quarter. the slumping crude price takes a toll on oil stocks, which underperform the european market as investors worry an extended output agreement won t address the supply glut. less than 48 hours to go until the polls open for the final round of the french presidential election. as emanuel macron extends his lead over marine le pen. good morning. it is friday, but not just any friday. it s jobs friday in the u.s. more importantly here in europe, it is the last trading day and the last friday before the second round of presidential elections in france. that s all happening on sunday. let s look at the stoxx 600 and how it s doing this morning. it s off slightly to the tune of 0.3%. we re seeing a bit of a pull back as we see that drop in oil price really weighing on the energy sector. keep in mind these european markets are close to 20-month highs, and close to nine-year highs for the french equity markets. let s look ....
it is 8:00 a.m. in dubai. this is markets middle east. to keep there was a lot us busy. we had big economic data. let s look to how u.s. equity markets closed. jobs report. the s&p 500 index rallied off the back of the better than expected payroll. close0 reaching a record and the nasdaq and dow jones, gains. jones up lack the the other big story was what happened in commodities. we saw french oil prices rebound along with a bloomberg commodities index. boy, did they take a sliding down. , oil iser the rebound back where it was before opec announced production cuts. downloomberg dollar index almost 0.5% despite the jobs report. this isrony in all of this part of the world has not really had a chance to react in this volatility we have been seeing as this part of the world under two hours away from the obligor of the in terms of what happened, we pull out the index and slap on the mrr gold function to see which companies have performed well. 8.2%. in are seeing healt ....
on aggregate to secure their place in the stockholm showpiece, later this month. we are live at manchester s beautiful, glorious, historic victoria baths. the pool has been refilled, ready for the first public swim in 2a years. we will have more on the plight of britain s glorious historic pools and the fight to save them ina historic pools and the fight to save them in a little while. and matt has them in a little while. and matt has the weather. good morning. another dry day., but for the rest of you there will be the smell of fresh rain in the air and maybe eight thunderstorms later. dry day for scotland. good morning. first, our main story. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. they include swords, axes and airguns. some of the cases involved children as young as five . police chiefs said there had been a worrying increase in young people carrying knives. andy moore reports. some schools have taken to using metal arches to m ....
seized in schools across england and wales in the past two years. also, dreams become virtual reality for one british tech firm. improbable manages raises almost £400 million in one of the biggest ever investments in an early stage european technology business. and. a close shave for paddle boarders in calfornia, after they re warned they re swimming next to 15 great white sharks. good morning. it s friday 12th may. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is to give a major foreign policy speech in about half an hour s time in which he is likely to say that he doesn t see himself as a pacifist, because he would use military force as a last resort but that he believes military intervention has become far too common in recent times. mr corbyn was chair of an anti war group and opposed intervention in kosovo and serbia. he is also known to bea kosovo and serbia. he is also known to be a long term supporter of unilateral di ....