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Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a ron striking back with iran striking back after the u. S. Air strike that killed top iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. For more, simon foxman joins us from doha. What is the latest on the retaliatory attacks on the part of iran . Big question has been whether or not there are any casualties caused by this attack. We just saw, as i was sitting down, it appears u. S. Officials are saying no casualties. That they were informed of this before it happened. If there were casualties, it would have caused a much stronger u. S. Response, the thinking goes. If not, perhaps we could see ourselves moving towards some type of negotiation, some sort of diplomatic resolution. The ayatollah, and he the Ayatollah Khomein ....
Some have moderated a little. We trade at 68 59. Gold went above 1600 an ounce. We come off the high a ten year yield did get to a 170 breaking a trend line that weve been in since september but now down to two basis points on a 180 handle on that. Looking at dollar yen though that comes off a little bit. Unchanged there on that currency pay. European equities in the red but a reasonably muted move also what were seeing in u. S. Future. One point we saw it drop as much as 1. 7 but we recouped ome of those losses. This morning we begin with the retaliation from iran against the u. S. For the killing of its top general. The nation firing a series of missiles at Iraqi Air Bases Housing u. S. Troops. The escalation coming hours after President Trump says the u. S. Was totally prepared for an attack. Irans foreign minister saying tehrans is retaliation. It adds it isnt l ....
China trade deal jobless claims fall. And real estate and staples are leading the charge joining us for the hour is stephanie link were both feeling the holiday red but we got a green market. Like a christmas theme were now starting to see internalsin the market thats confirming the stabilization look at the 210 spread, the yield curve is steepening. Nats a good sign asia stocks, they are breaking out. You look at oil up 10 in the past month all of these things are confirming were seeing stabilization and that sets us up for 2020 seeing better growth my biggest question mark does this translate into better earnings i think we will see better earnings which maybe not right away you have pmis globally that are stabilizing. I feel good going into 2020. It has to be an Earnings Growth year all three averages are up half a percent first lets focus on the big stories were watching Kayl ....
Wall street is poised for a higher open. The historic impeachment of President Trump. Secretary mnuchin will join us exclusively in the next hour. We will discuss the postimpeachment economic agenda between now and the election the house readying that vote on the usmca, an important trade agreement. Plus, chips are continuing to outperform the rally the ceo will join us in squawk ali and iac is spinning off an online match group, all of it, shares are climbing ahead of bell now you, we begin, of course, with the market, one day after the impeachment of the president. Its an interesting evening. Yeah, it was. You know, david, this is the beginning of an under performance period if we find if we analogize to clinton. The only difference is that there were democrats who joined republicans in the impeachment process because they thought it was a cut and dry violation the lying about the section act. It was one count of perjury about ....
Morgan stanley also taking down its price target on home depot by 10. Of course, the big event tomorrow in london and england is the u. K. Election. Guy, your outside with the lovely febrile room of st. Paul in the background lovely cathedral dome of st. Paul in the background. Narrowingthe gap between Boris Johnson and competing parties such as labour. Guy exactly. The big news over nice was that the latest poll basically cut Boris Johnsons lead in half to where it was only a few weeks ago. That really is the big story we are watching now. Does this continue into the election . Theres been a lot of talk about the fact that a Hung Parliament cannot be taken off the table. We are going to find out tomorrow at 10 a clock p. M. London time, when the first exit poll is going to come out. Basically, counting ourselves into the ....