Firmly in the red here nasdaq is up 104 . Up 3 this week alone. Only tuesday coming up on todays show kraft is trading higher. Of they outline two billion in cost cuts and selling off part of the cheese business not all of the cheese business and some confusion as to which cheeses go and which stay. Well find out why the companys president about those moves will join us to discuss whether lack of fresh stimulus can impact and speaking of stimulus, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us and his article calling for more than 2 trillion in government spending. We begin with breaking news on apple. It is much anticipated event unveiling a new number of products we have the latest josh so a lot of news in that 60 minutes of apples show today. Start with the new hardware. That new ipad air. It is going to start at 599 available next month 10. 9 inch display with a huge boost in performance we know the ipad is a hardware line clearly benefitting from that work from home trend apple w
And then in europe youre going to see equity futures there also to the upside this morning, gains across the board of better than 1 . Its up a third of a percent and stocks in italy up by 1. 5 breaking news happening moments ago, hong kong leader has now announced the official withdrawal of the extradition bill that sparked months of mass protests there its one of five demands including universal suffrage in the citys elections it sparked a late night rally in hong kong with stocks closing higher by nearly 4 youre looking at the stock chart right there. A loif report from hong kong in a couple of minutes. The other big global story is a political Crisis Brewing in the u. K. He joins us to explain the situation to app american audience that isnt necessarily familiar with the parliamentary procedure. This is not for me this is not for me this is for certain individuals that may not understand what is going on there but go slowly just in case i want to pick up a few of the nuisances and w
Attacked by armed, masked men. We are live in the city. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Lets check in first off on the markets. We see gains across European Equity indexes. That should show through in terms of u. S. Futures, as well as s p futures. Oil is down. You will see the big majors weighing on the stoxx 600 index. Maybe a turnaround of the gains we saw oil take yesterday. The u. S. 10 year yield is currently up for basis points to 1. 54, so investors feel less concerned and are selling that that. Lets get bloomberg first word news in new york. We begin in argentina. S P Global Ratings cut the Credit Rating to selective default after the nation said it would delay payment on more than 100 billion of debt. They says criteria, constitutes default, but the new terms for shortterm debt came in immediately and they will lift argentinas rating to triple c minus. Boris johnsons suspension of parliament will get an early test. , saying are ruling courts, saying it is an affront to dem
Us a bit of support. A little bit of strength on the yen. The bank of japans yield curve control may not impact the markets which some are expecting, so do not expect any great strength. Crude oil, and opec meeting coming up. Yvonne you have the dollar sinking the most in two months so there was this fed commentary about how it looks like what the fund is leaning towards is a positive or a skip in june. That is helping lift overall the risk move. Even china, you take a look at the rally we are seeing in the hang seng. The extreme bearishness is coming off a little bit now. Rishaad yesterday if we wanted to go to the advice of the hang seng in 2018, you would need to have an 18 improvement. But ecb inflation. Christine lagarde has a bit more wiggle room, came in at 6. 1 inflation. Compared with pakistan yesterday, 37. 97 . Yvonne yikes. But the euro story will be interesting. If they are also close to a positive we heard from some of the ecb officials that may be the next few hikes are
The little of february. The nikkei 225, stronger by. 25 . We did have the first day of the fiscal year for japan. We are seeing investors at the start of this week doing profittaking, particularly when it comes to the performers. We are seeing broad upside as the nikkei comes online. Watching those chip stocks. We had news of further investment from the governor government, looking to make those two nanometer chips. That would be a significant uplift when it comes to those chip and ai and tech related names. Topics moderately higher at this point. Dollaryen trading at the 151 level. 152 is potentially where we see intervention. Of course, new year, same old issues when it comes to the battle between the dollaryen. The same old currency problem confronting traders and the government. There will be Big Questions as to how the intervention will play out, and how long it potentially can last, given we know currency intervention does not tend to be longlasting. Even if it is heavyhanded. In