Told anna. He says barclays is becoming the bank he wants it to be. Boosting pressure on north korea, Rex Tillerson echoes trumps warnings, but says to is ready tona impose further sanctions. Is the market paying attention . Alphabet beats sales projections in the First Quarter and amazon continues its 20year streak of doubledigit revenue growth. Will it continue to fuel the nasdaq streak. Less than an hour away from the end of the month in trading when it comes to european equities. We start the session on a little firmer footing. The fair value calculations on your bloomberg. 1 s like we are opening up higher. Interesting to see how the stock stories perform. Lets talk about what is happening more broadly. Not a lot of action. Lets show you the gmm screen. The is the picture around world. The dollar a little firmer bid. Up by. 1 . Elsewhere, not getting huge moves. Equity markets drift and that is the story to take away as well. Do we get a sense of direction from the gdp data today
T is e. C. B. Day. Well talk about the e. C. B. s options for tapering and then in just over an hour we will speak to pimcos andrew. This is a picture for the markets. Overall there has been a little bit of movement on the back of the debates. Mr. Trump, donald trump refusing to say he will accept the Election Results if he loses. Dollar advancing again. It all has to do with the e. C. B. You can see the stocks in europe pretty much subdued then i want to show you the mexican peso. This is important because it is a proxy for the chance that donald trump will win and you can see mexican peso down 0. 4 after strengthening a touch. The currency has risen more than 4 this month. There is a growing likelihood that trump will lose the coming elections. This is the trump effect. Were not only seeing those on pesos but also on the Australian Dollar bets. His is the mexican peso in white anything below the line means more short and above means more long positions. Lets get straight to bloomberg
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