London. I am yousef gamal eldin. Tracy and im tracy alloway. This is trending business. We had no event for a week. This is trending business Bloomberg Markets middle east this isBloomberg Markets middle east this is Bloomberg Markets middle east. We had a very eventful week. Increaseds, the rates by six to 597. That means that u. S. Rates are off to the best start since 2017 began. So that is the best start in five years. Look at that. Look where we have come from theremid2016 all the way in midfebruary. You see it there. That is your reference line. That is wti. Interesting, tracy, here, we had the gas line and column and they said, you know what . Traders are not caring about these numbers, including the inventory bill from last week. Is right. T we had investors look through everything happening in the almostoking focusing entirely on opecs production cuts. Lets look at where markets close to your eyes josh closed in the u. S. Last week. The dow jones average basically unchanged. T
We will look at chinas been on north korea and coal. We breakdown chinas trade data as soon as it comes in. And singapore looking ahead with budget announcement to do later on. From sydney we break down the latest attorneys from the minors in australia. In new york world we will be discussing krafts surprise withdraw from a merger with unilever. And a deal for bank of americas boss. 20 million for Brian Moynihan. Coming daybreak asia from the u. S. And asian headquarters, im betty liu in new york where it is just after 6 p. M. It is just after 7 a. M. In hong kong. A pretty mixed day for markets it seems on this monday. Japan trades will be the one to watch at this hour. And they will be focusing on global trade in the next two hours today. With two former trade negotiators joining us. Betty it is interesting we are talking about all of this at a time when trumps lieutenants call them are out and about in europe and asia trying to appease everyones concerns about what exactly the u. S.
Indeed, kris and sam, and thats exactly what the white house wanted. Todays rolloutcom comes after several delays, and this time theyre focusing on President Trumps serious allegations without evidence of his predecessor. Today the white house tweeted this photo, President Donald Trump signing version 2, a revised travel ban taking place of the first one that went to the Supreme Court. Five major changes from the original order. First, iraq is no longer included in the list of countries. Secondly, this will not go into effect until march 16. The ban will not affect those holding a valid visa prior to january 27th, and this is not an allout ban against syrian refugees. Finally, the ban will not affect green card holders. It is the president s solemn duty to protect the American People. Reporter today more fallout after President Trump ignited a weekend twitter storm, claiming, without offering any evidence, that former president barack obama hacked the phones of trump tower in the 2016
To 15 degrees, warming into the 60s tomorrow, also tomorrow with higher temperatures we will start timing out the rain showers for the area. Nothing too heavy is coming our way tomorrow. Feels like 29, with this southeasterly wind. Heres what were talking about. Quickly, violin a. M. , 45 is her temperature. Today, you will notice quite a few clouds giving you use out of your sunglasses. Flow out of the southwest, as far as the weekend goes. This is what we will talk more about coming up in just 10 minutes. On the roads we are talking about a couple of problems that weve noticed. Off in virginia, that is where we had the crash involving Police Direction in order to get by. Coming out of buckeystown road, the crash was on the left side of the highway. Sticking with a ride in maryland, the crash has been creek in 210 towards swan road. Fire and rescue units are headed in this direction. Safetrack surge 13 phase one, affecting the blue and yellow line, but with more details we say good mo
Bell walked from market and van ness to my dental office on franklin street which is 2 miles but its better than getting onto those crowded buses. Theyre going to get better when the bus Rapid Transit but it still isnt done the way it should be done in the subways are light rail. Anyway, that being said, ive no problem with the amount of parking. Its only one car. Units. If you things that could be improved. First of all the exterior whatever happened to building walls and putting windows and . What we do is build windows nokia we dont have anything but glazing. I would like to see that work with the project architect and try to make it look like it fits in a little bit better because to the east, you can see theres a building they might particularly like the style of it. Its a fairly new building there was likely built in the last 2030 years, and has some pays and it has more of a punch window window instead of all glazing which i dont really know if its cheaper to build it or why we