it seems it is always angst fighting the central bank. tom: we will bring everybody up to date on the shock and all of that negative interest rate call by the bank of japan, but you are right, it pulls right on to china and you see it within the market activity. francine: let s get straight to the bloomberg first word news. vonnie: after months of campaigning, the first votes are cast today and the race for the white house. a weekend poll shows donald trump with a five-point lead over ted cruz among republican voters. they question whether trump supporters will actually show up tonight. hillary clinton has a slight lead over bernie sanders. sanders is coding counting on young voters. civil war in syria began in geneva today. this after eight triple bombing killed 45 people. supporters of bashar al-assad have threatened to boycott the talks. in northeastern nigeria, at least 86 people were killed by boko her wrong. they targeted a camp for displaced persons. boko haram has k
Independent Ireland’s Niall Boylan is likely to run out of transfer-friendly candidates on the next count, after landing in third place on the last day.