Figure in focus as investors search for clues about the next fed rate hike. With the u. K. Election less than a week away, we speak to iain duncan smith. Good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. Theres a lot of news today and that has loads of implications for all the data across the board. Lets get straight to it. Global stocks are up. The nikkei 225 stock average topped 20,000 points for the 2015. Time since this is mainly as private american hiring data bolstered confidence in the economy. We have to wait for that jobs data today coming through. This is what were seeing for pound, weakening a touch. Look out for pound. We are just seven days until that election, june 8. Yen, im seeing a little movement. 111. 56. Crude oil, we will be speaking to the opec secretarygeneral shortly. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra we start in the u. S. The Trump Administration has asked the u. S. Supreme court to reinstate its travel ban
Welcome to the pulse live from london. I am francine lacqua. We have great guests lined up for you. We have the new ceo on this mornings earnings in just under half an hour. We speak to be one of the campaigns leading figures. He is former defense secretary liam fox. Bp profit down by 80 . However, did beat expectations. We saw profit and investors are piling into that, getting 3 , despite much smaller gains for crude. I went to show you japanese yen later this week. Lets get to the first word news. Bp has reported a surprise firstquarter profit despite the slump in oil prices. Profit adjusted for onetime items and inventory changes totaled 500 to 532 million. Analysts expected a loss. Offset business helped sliding crude prices. Junior doctors are holding their first allout strike in the 70 year history of the countrys National Health service. Almost 13,000 operations and more than 100,000 outpatient appointments have been canceled to free up staff. The walkout comes amid a fresh roun