welcome to bloomberg: surveillance bloomberg: surveillance. i m mark barton in london. festival of central banks, we have the ecb to come, the bank of england, the fed here. down 1/5 of 1%. .uro, little change unchanged since the last ecb season, october 26. hasn t fallen to one dollar 1587 on november november 7. sterling up by 1/10 of 1% today. today, but it s politics that s affecting sterling today, having risen since fps last night. they re changing their government s planned legislation, so they guarantee they will get a meaningful vote on the final deal to leave the eu in negotiations for 2019. coming up today on bloomberg surveillance, we will discuss markets with paul donovan, hear from the s&p governor thomas jordan. but get to bloomberg first word news with sebastian salek sebastian: the fed has raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected. we also have a growth forecast next year, but maintaining projection of hikes 3 hikes in 2018. saiding cha
emails for a break for a prankster pretending to be the chairman. i m guy johnson alongside tom king. been quite a week. quite a week. had i m not sure there is a correlation between your being here. tom: it has been an exhausting week. i cannot remember a week like that. we have got more reporting on that to all of surveillance. there is still a lot of other news out there including the german election. to the big one. let s take a look at what is happening with the data. these are the numbers you need to know. the stoxx 600 barely budging. tom, do you know what? we have had the biggest info into european equities on record this week. an in some ways, it has been incredible week but the equity markets have not reflected it. the german 10-year is not moving very much. tom: maybe an oil lift. guy: up by .2%. tom: i decided to do a data check. there is not much going on. that in itself is news. let me get to my chart. a bloomberg chart on the atlanta gdp. for those of you n
beating the establishment. the outsider defeats the former prime minister in france s socialist primary run-up. does this give more ground to the independent candidate, emmanuel macron? toyota the world s best-selling automaker. how will looming trade barriers affecte the sector? matt: less than half an hour until the european open. take a look at futures write-down. you at futures right now. futures are off after equity markets declined. chinese and various other asian markets are closed for the lunar new year holiday, and i would are better advised to focus on other asset classes today. at currencies, commodities, treasuries what do you see? guy: let s run through the columns and talk about what s happening right now. what we are seeing most prominently, matt, is the dollar beginning to firm up. earlier on it was down. now it is barely budging. more than 1/10 ofha 1%, .13% now. some dollar weakness but not a lot. theyen is up by around .3%, swiss franc is having to look
joining me in new york is editor and chief of bloomberg. from washington, ed from the financial times. welcome to both of you to the latest chapter in the soap opera that is brexit. let me start with you, how surprising is this? is quite surprising. this is the best kept secret in british politics. if it had been david cameron or tony blair planning to call a snap election, it would have been leaked out. they have so many friends. it would ve been hard to keep a secret. theresa may is a very different kind of character, does not , has executed a complete surprised almost everybody except for a small group of around her. it is no surprise in another sense, and that she does not have her own mandate, she became prime minister having been a relative to remain up. she did campaign for remain. head,s in the eu with her but out of it with her heart. for she was therefore not seen as the true brexiters. if she now gets her own big mandate, big maturity big majority and increases