billion. sydney, just past 8 a.m. i m haidi lun. this is daybreak asia. in new after 6 p.m. york. i m betty liu. we will be looking in all the action on wall street playing into the asia-pacific trading day. two within the last minutes, we got that breaking news out of washington. president trump firing the fbi director james comey. our chief white house correspondent has the latest on this news. ?evin, what happened here he fired comey on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions, right? reporter: yes this is breaking is just coming out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, where fbi director comey has been fired. president informing the fbi that he will no longer be leading the bureau. in the letter where he informed mr. comey of the firing, he says i want to read it to you. he says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three everett occasions separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you
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from lawmakers when he answers questions on policy. how much detail will draghi give about his plans? an ipo says it plans to take its operation public and a buyback. how will the market react? matt: we are less than half an hour from the european open and european futures are pointing down. on here.e wpi i am going to click in this box, futures, and then we can see the futures trade in the first numbers column and a percent missed price next to it. you can see only the ftse is indicated to open higher today. the cac and the dax are indicated to open down, as are the rest of european markets. let me click into my bond screen yields moving higher. you can see the real movement today let me zoom in we have had a real selling off of german debt and that is pushing the yield higher. manus: matt, let s look at gmm. the u.s. equities futures a little lower, a new president in korea. reopeninghe cost be down .9%. the bloomberg dollar index is down by .8 percent. that has more to
anna: welcome to bloomberg daybreak: europe. where in the city of london. manus: it s super thursday for the bank of england. france s number three bank with every other bank in france which is delivering its numbers. credit agricole worst numbers, the market predicted 700 702 million euros. delivering stable revenues in 2017. it s the mortgage fees that are helping the banks. credit agricole saying net income quadrupled in the first quarter. they have the italian business trying to expand. it looks like the cfo expects stability. trading revenue rose by 17% on fixed income money. that joins the overall theme that we had. that s the story in parts of the banking sector. also getting numbers from union credit. first-quarter net income 907 million euros, a above the estimate of 586.7 million. interesting reading from my builterg colleagues, they it as the quarter where the ceo might need to prove profitability. according to the estimates, he seems to done just that. , italy
first, abu dhabi national oil company posted its first profit since 2016. we asked how they did it. we are very happy with the result after two years of a transformation program that we gained the benefits of $3.6 billion. we have seen the result in the first quarter. we are very happy with the result. the business is much more lean and focused. we should get the benefit of that going into the future. we also had discussion of potential asset sales. is that still on the table now that you have returned to profit? definitely not, we are very happy with our assets as a long-term holder. we see a lot of benefits and assets and holding assets. there is a lot of potential in terms of spending and getting more cash flow out of the business. we are very happy with the assets as they are. what about capital expenditure? you have returned to profitability would changeou have extra money to spend. this year, we are wrapping up cafex. the board has approved that in the last me