Negative territory down by. 2 . The dollar gaining strength and crude is all over the place. You wind up having opec leaders meeting and talking about maybe extending a deal through 2022. That comes from the Saudi Oil Minister. So the oil market is trying to digest that. The big news has been what is happened with apple. A 2 trillion market cap. We knew it was coming and now it is official. Isning me more is the but you are global on fx, apple, what do you do with that . Anne from a fundamental equity standpoint i cannot have any comments on all, that i would stay that say that this level of market cap is a success and that there Monetary Policy policy easing, the giant firehose of liquidity as well as actions by the European European Central Bank and bank of japan has bouyed the equity market and we are seeing a little bit of a rally and everything. We talked about that before the virus and it is interesting to see that we are back at that point and it reflects a tremendous amount of
Fires rockets at u. S. Military base its. Tehran says it doesnt want war. Boeing737 jet crashes in a ron shortly after takeoff due to stateat stadia media describes as technical issues. All people on board were killed. Carlos ghosn says nissan used him as a scapegoat to block further integration with renault. He speaks out in a press Conference Today in beirut. We are also getting german factory orders in the economic data. It does not look good. November factory orders dropped 6. 5 yearoveryear. November manufacturing orders dropped 1. 3 month over month. That we haverders been waiting for here in germany just dont look good. You want to pull that up on your bloomberg, type ego go. Pull down on the german flag. The picture is fairly dire. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Before the factory ders came through, they were bad enough. Now you can see, dax futures are down even more. 1 . More than double the losses that we see on ftse futures. In term
For the city. Deals top 70 billion in just 24 hours. Just how much can m a avoid the risk rally . This is the European Market open. Less than a halfhour to go until the start of the trading day. A number of scenes to talk about. Not a great deal of movement in these markets as a result. We are kind of holding our ground after early risk appetite. When you look at the currency markets, a lot of that has been pared back. Expecting to see a bit of a bounce at the start of the trading day in europe. Lets put the u. S. Futures. Some moves to the upside also foreseen in the u. S. But not by any stretch large gains, partly reflecting the strength we have already seen this month and over the past few months on expectations of trade negotiation success and the Balance Sheet. Lets not forget the other factors that have driven us higher. Lets have a look at what is going on on the gmm. This shows us the Asian Session quite nicely. A mixed picture, quite a nice story for the session. We are not su
President wont participate in the cleveland inquiry, calling it unconstitutional and invalid. Powell sees the fed growing the Balance Sheet again. They suggest this is not a return to crisis era stimulus. And Credit Suisse considers a return to u. S. Wealth management as the ceo seeks to boost growth and Private Banking. A warm welcome. You down to the start of equity trading at just less than half an hour. We are live in dublin once again as issues surrounding the irish continue to dominate the Brexit America narrative. We have heard from ireland how they see it difficult to achieve any kind of deal. Thats why we are here, focusing in on the broader story. Is not pricing in anything happening at the end of ober looking for a timber looking for other market moves to take place. Matt interestingly, we dont see 10year gilts under that pressure. There is very little change from the closed yesterday. They did not drop on Jerome Powell. This is where the yield is right now. They said the fe
Steve mnuchin says he may had to beijing of trade talks arent productive. This as europes braces for u. S. Tariffs on 7 billion of goods and legal aircraft subsidies. Trading revenue will be the talking point for Goldman Sachs and jp morgan as they report quarter results. We will hear from the cfo, john shrewsbury. And buyers reprieve. The german companys legal payout over its second round up by 55 million by u. S. Judge. There are some harsh words in that case. He called their behavior reprehensible. Ant to talk about bitcoin everyone has harsh things to say about bitcoin, from President Trump to his treasury Steve Mnuchin, saying it is only backed by thin air. On can see it hit 12,000 friday and just dropped over the weekend, trading now a 10,700 between four dollars. One of the problems for bitcoin is that a lot of people have bad things to say about Facebooks Libra as well, even Maxine Waters is out against libra. But im not sure they should necessarily be making the connection bet