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Bigger. Astrazeneca approaches gilead for what would be the Largest Health care deal in history. A joint company would be worth almost . 25 trillion. Cheaters. Brents eightday streak is the longest since february as opecplus seals a deal to extend output cuts but worries persist that some nations may not to the line. Payrolls rebound. On employment in america declined. The surprise jobs bounceback does not apply to black americans. Colin powell turns against trumps threat to use troops against protesters. Lets take a look at what is going on in futures. European futures are not pointing higher right now. We get german industrial output following more than expected. 17. 9 month over month, extending a 16. 5 drop. But even before this news which is just breaking right now on the german economy, we have european futures down. Not seeing the same kind of gains that the u. S. Markets saw after those jobs numbers came out, so not catchi ....
State of the business good to have you with us and we start with a look at the markets asian shares are down today and all prizes have spiked after u. S. Airstrikes in iraq killed a top iranian commander heightening geopolitical tensions markets were quick to react after news broke that the head of the elite acquits force and a top Iraqi Militia commander were killed early on friday the broad to m s c i asia pacific index fell from an 18 months high why individual markets in Shanghai Hong Kong and tokyo were down up to one percent crudest up almost 3 percent. Or more lets bring in our Financial Market correspondent only bods who is standing by for us and frankly it only obviously markets show very dramatic reactions their stock markets europes odd open yet but what traders worried about. I think theyre worried about ....
Or not, banking leaders have said that the term should not be used because it is well, racist. Are they right or is this just the woke mob throwing its toys out of the pram . Once again . Do out of the pram . Once again . Do get in touch. Send us your thoughts on gbviews gbnews. Com or at gb news. But or tweet me at gb news. But first, lets get the news headunes first, lets get the News Headlines rory. Headlines with rory. Thank you very much, emily. Those who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes will no longer have the living costs docked from their compensation payments. This new guidance payments. This new guidance issued by justice secretary alex chalk comes into immediate effect today say it follows the controversy sparked by the jailing of Andrew Malkinson , who jailing of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 yea ....
Sector down, not much, but still down utilities, real estate and healthcare are leading the way let us start with oil. Heres the thing, pete weve been here before if youre lock oil, youve had your heartbroken a few times. Yes, i have, indeed. Is this time different . I feel like it is different and the reason i say that weve seen so much options as of late. By the way, yesterday was the lowest volume day in the options for the entire year of 2017 if you exclude some of the half days that weve had. Weve seen paper flows very, very indicative of where the directions are going and seen it in energy time and time again and this time the size and the mass in which they are coming after paper in the xlp, in the xle, in individual names like halliburton and some of the rest, weve even had some in the services index, the oih. Which is up by the way. Right, and it encompass eds, you put in schlumberger and halliburton and thats 35 of that index so you know its fairly narrow, but the energy spac ....