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Strength of the us economy, issuing a thanksgiving message to our troops and thanked them for their service. Fighting for something real, you are fighting for something good. A lot of things happened with our country over the last short time and they are really good, they are really good. I especially like saying companies are starting to come back, we are working on tax cuts, big fat beautiful tax cuts and hopefully we will get that and you will see things happen. Dagen big fat beautiful tax cuts, is that why the market is up . A short trading day, on the dow futures, all major markets hit alltime highs earlier in the week including the russell 2000, the store opened half a day, stock market closing, in europe look at what is happening, a slight loss on the s p in england. Asia gains across the board, shanghai, the nikkei, hong kong and south korea. New details in that uber hack. Accompanys new ceo was made aware of the attack shortly after he started in september. It wasnt made publi
Bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Manus what a week. Volatility has been the byword. European markets are trading higher, as asia attract the against today gain on u. S. Markets in more than six years. Francine lets get straight to mark bartons for all the barton for all the details. Mark what an amazing week. Chinese shares, the epicenter over the last week. Have a look at the shanghai composite. As i showed you, a five day chart. Because this week has been an extraordinary week. In the last couple days, the shanghai composite has rallied by 10. 5 . Dont forget. Over this five day period, in a number there you can see the shanghai composite is down by 8 . It is down 18 since the yuan devaluation. 38 following the market peak. Resurgence is down to speculation authorities are propping up markets before the president takes the stage at a world war ii victory parade next week. Thats whats pushing the chinese equity market higher for a second day. I want to put it in the context
Part of last nights onetwo punch. So are dc sports cursed . Well have a live report. And later, daytime diva . Wait until you hear Steve Harveys staff demands leaked in recent memo. Good day at 9a starts now. Well today was supposed to be day of celebration but unfortunately our smiles have turned to frowns because i mean we can still be happy. You can be. Sports is just a bummer. It feels like the same old same old, right. Its a bummer. I was ready to go on the band ago. Oh, stop. Had my Running Shoes on and everything. Good day d. C. It didnt end well. Well talk much more about it. Today is thursday may 11th im maureen alongside holly, morris and the wisdom martin. I think this one is hard. I really believed. Owe really believed shellacking on monday in pittsburgh that this was going to be it. Your enthusiasm was getting couldnt stages. I believed it. Its not such a good day for dc sports fans. Two of the three of the ones playing last night loft. The ones in the playoffs. Thats why
We will have the latest, but first, lets check in on the markets with mark barton. Mark e. U. Go. Look at the right hand side of the chart. Look at the map. Tories 315. 326 is the number they need. They are not going to get that number. This is not a brexit type of exit. European stocks are rising. Ftse is gaining because of the weak pound. Biggest decline since june 27. Sterling two day chart. That is when the exit polls came out at 10 p. M. Last night. Wed be down as much as 2. 5 . Vote, the expectations were if we got a Hung Parliament, sterling could fall as much as 1. 20. The median forecast. The 10 before the Vote Deutsche Bank set if we get a labour victory, the 10 year goes up. If we get a tory, small majority we go down to 90 basis points. Fascinating times, but its ver y much a localized Market Reaction. Francine thank you so much. She promised strong and stable. But we have this morning is anything but. The snap election gamble has backfired. Losing seats rather than gaining