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pulse. i am francine lacqua. let s get straight to these markets. we are seeing a relief rally that we saw yesterday. that is continuing into the early hours of the trading session in europe. from 1.4% i want to focus on the back because overall the gains are 2.6% if we did have a downgrade by moody s. volatility down a touch. pound 1.3389. barclays getting 3.4%. if you look at five trading session chart, it looks very different. they were really slammed on friday and monday. some of them lost 50% of value of the deal.inning let s get straight to the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. nejra: coordinated attacks at istanbul s international airport have killed at least 40 people. the prime minister says islamic state is likely to be responsible. the attacks which injured 200 people in off at about 10 p.m. local time. turkish airlines says the airport has reopened for flight. the president of france has targeted a keep color of the financial industry as he call ....
live from bloomberg s european headquarters. i am francine lacqua good we have a great lacqua. we have a great show lined up for you. the west leader economist joins us on set. that is to name a few of the guests. first of all, let s check your markets, because there is plenty going on good risk aversion swing the markets. signs that the u.k. markets are taking a turn. your stoxx 600 down. the pound dropping. 20en demand we saw that year japanese government bonds, you can see it there on the screen. 0% for theng below first time ever. we also saw 10 year government yields on guilds the first time at a record low. let s get to bloomberg first word news with their change. nejra: three of the uk s largest real estate funds have frozen 9.1 billion pounds of assets. investments in standard life desha standard life investments have halted withdrawals because it did not they do not have enough cash to pay investors. theresa may has taken a clearly in the race to succeed ....
early on in the day. dowver, not enough for the and the s&p to reach new records here. investors are going through earnings news once again, a lot of corporate news, and they are weighing against valuations for the s&p 500. take a look at bloomberg here. $22.08. s&p has gained more this year, so there are some about the possibility of companies in the u.s., being enough to sustain those valuations. that is something investors will be waiting on a macro basis as we go through this earnings season. one of the top corporate stories today does not have to do with earnings it has to do with m&a. we are watching verizon and yahoo! on this news that vonnie and david mentioned that verizon and yahoo! are in one-on-one talks, a $5 billion acquisition. it is not clear if they will indeed get them, but it looks like it could, and it could happen early next week. at&t also announced earnings today, trailing analysts estimates, but the shares are moving higher. perhaps not the wi ....
hour with another check of the weather as we do every morning and i woke again to similar conditions as we had yesterday. it is friday. we ve got that and comes into the weekend it will be notice burglary cooler today than we saw yesterday. here s a live look for you. temperatures, yeah, they re pretty much where they usually are this time of day but we do have some of that fog and some drizzle along the coast potentially for us. 54 san francisco and 54 for pleasanton. matching that by about 4:00 dropping back to 57. west southwest winds 10-fif fein miles per hour. not meaning you won t see the son of course. satellite picture reveals all of this and this is what we re going to be treated to saturday morning as well as we start to warm up a little bit. let s watch now the fog tracker for all of this. yes this mixes out by early afternoon and we ll precipitate the pechl performance on saturday. maybe some drizzle will be more aggressive tomorrow than we have today. rea ....
hour, where learning more about the victims. officials have identified 22 of the 50 people gunned down when a man pledging allegiance to isis walked into a packed a gay nightclub here in orlando and started shooting. a day later, people in the city are trying to figure out how the worst mass shooting in us history could happen here. the ex-wife of omar mateen, the man who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in us history is speaking out. he was mentally unstable and mentally ill. that is the only explanation that i could give. reporter: investigators say the 29-year-old man teen opened fire inside of a gay nightclub in orlando killing 50 and injuring more than 50 others. he took some clubgoers hostage for hours before a swat team broke down the door and shot him. some of the clubs entertainers it in the dressing room. they crawled out of the building when police removed the air-conditioning unit. another person said that she survived by hiding in the bathroom, co ....