To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
Fourth term as chancellor as the social democrats vote to open Coalition Talks. In improving picture for emerging markets. Behin what isr tells us behind the outlook. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Inm yousef gamal eldin dubai. Global markets showing they are willing to take the u. S. Government shutdown in stride. Assets weaker with korea and japan driving losses. Australian shares unchanged. Advance on optimism for the euro. It is not a pop. It raises the question about the massive eurodollar positions out there. The dollar index pretty much unchanged, still close to a sixweek slide that shows no of relief in the shutdown. Up. 5 . Urrently we had commentary from the most par 4 Energy Ministers in the world and will get you those interviews in the program. Old lower the big move in the emerging market fx space has been the 12. 12 offd trade at the news that jacob zuma could leave earlier than planned and transition plo power in a you new administration. Lets check in on first
First, Abu Dhabi National oil Company Posted its first profit since 2016. We asked how they did it. We are very happy with the result after two years of a Transformation Program that we gained the benefits of 3. 6 billion. We have seen the result in the First Quarter. We are very happy with the result. The business is much more lean and focused. We should get the benefit of that going into the future. We also had discussion of potential asset sales. Is that still on the table now that you have returned to profit . Definitely not, we are very happy with our assets as a longterm holder. We see a lot of benefits and assets and holding assets. There is a lot of potential in terms of spending and getting more cash flow out of the business. We are very happy with the assets as they are. What about Capital Expenditure . You have returned to profitability would changeou have extra money to spend. This year, we are wrapping up cafex. The board has approved that in the last meeting. We should st
By Scott DiSavino and Jessica Resnick-Ault NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped about 3% on Friday, hitting their highest levels in more than a year, following a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report and a decision by OPEC and its allies not to increase supply in April. Brent futures rose $2.62, or 3.9%, to settle at $69.36 a barrel. The session high for the global benchmark was its highest since January 2020. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $2.26, For the week, Brent gains 5.2% gain, WTI up 7.4%or 3.5% to settle at $66.09 a barrel. For the week, Brent was up 5.2%, rising for a seventh week in a row for the first time since December, while WTI was up about 7.4% after gaining almost 4% last week.