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syria and the confirmation of neil gorsuch. to the supreme court. critics say he has made little headway on major legislation and his record low poll numbers reflect this reality. joining me to talk about the presidency, from washington, glenn thrush. he covered the white house for the new york times. from california, hugh hewitt. he is the host of a popular conservative radio program. and here in new york we also have dan senor, former advisor to mitt romney and paul ryan and , in the office of george w. bush. and philip bump is a correspondent for the washington post. i am pleased to have all of them here. , how do you go about an assessment of this president after 100 days? hugh: you have to use the old nixon yellow pad, the good and the bad. it has been the best of times and the worst of times. neil gorsuch is a 30 year with, win, maybe a 40 year win. a significant win, and a huge free exercise for the court. there will be many more decisions where justice g ....
abu dhabi s national energy company, another m of prolonged resist and oil. it s 8:00 a.m. across emirates, this is bloomberg markets: middle east. get you up to speed in terms of the melody, the rhythm, in terms of equity markets in this part of the world. we are two hours away from the open. this is how the gcc pans out. you can see downside pressure that oil price is putting significant risk into this equation. there is a lot more conviction in overall volumes. a 60% jump. retailer is jumping a 10th of 1%. of telco down 10%. also more petrochemicals are expected to report earnings in the coming days. saudi stocks of been the worst performers in the last trading day. egypt and oman were close for public holiday. we are looking forward to some inventory data from that your iap we are seeing big moves on the gcc bond. bits tightening a little further. as the optimism and equity rallies, the momentum continues 1060 $4000.t turkish lira is in focus because we have the c ....
credit suisse. mark barton in london with your data check. mark: looks as if the five-day winning run is sputtering or stuttering. choose your word. down by 0.1% today. the stoxx 600 boosted by results of the first-round of the french presidential election on sunday. the optimism is among investors that emmanuel macron will emerge victorious. euro-dollar, we ve been as high as the november high yesterday, just crossing 1.09. the recent rally also spluttering, stuttering, or spluttering. german 10 year yield was at a end of march high yesterday. yields creeping up in germany and across europe. towardsd a propensity riskier assets this week in the wake of the french election. nymex crude, big stockpile data today. down by 0.3%. 49 .39, francine. francine: stockpiles really in the last couple months have been able to change. now, mark, let s get straight to the bloomberg first word news. here s nejra cehic. nejra: donald trump is set to propose a 10% tax on more than $2.6 ....
to see what mnuchin and the economic director hold a briefing at the white house. look at twitter earnings. ,t looks like a pretty big be coming in at 11 percent. monthly active users also coming in slightly better than estimates, coming in at 328 million, beating the estimates better than the fourth quarter. also, revenue dropped the estimates as well. looks like a good quarter for twitter. you ve that revenue, earnings up, monthly active users up as well. we will cover that throughout the next three hours. david: you can get money for it and this might be a case where they figure out how to do that. and maybe video because they really have the video. let s see. today president trump is going to release his plan for what he has called the big tax reform and reduction. we ve gotten hints about where he is headed. we are joined by our chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli. what we know so far is he is going to call for a 15% corporate tax rate tax break. we ....
it is a busy morning and we begin washington where trump is set to release the broad outlines of a tax plan later today. mnuchin metd steven with congressional leaders last week to preview the proposal. here is what steven mnuchin said during an event earlier. steven mnuchin: this is going to be the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country. and we are committed to seeing this through. vonnie: kevin cirilli joins us now. from capitol hill. give us the three major pillars of this plan as steven mnuchin has outlined it? kevin: earlier today, steven event inpoke at an washington hosted by the hill newspaper in which he outlined the details of the tax plan that we are expecting. later today, steven mnuchin will join gary cohn in a white house briefing, in which they will continue to unveil details. i do want to pull up more information about this tax plan. first and foremost, the administration is calling to of 15%.he tax rate they are also ca ....