Market expectations for more rate hikes in 2017 . And talks with tusk. Theresa may hosts the European Council president at downing street. This is bloomberg surveillance. Good morning. Our top story. The u. S. Has launched a Cruise Missile attack against syria two days after accusing a a ssads regime of using poison gas to kill scores of civilians. The syrian air field from which the chemical strike is believed to have been lost was tomahawk missiles. During the election campaign, President Trump vaulted past u. S. Leaders for getting embroiled in conflicts. He says this action is justified. President trump it is in the vital, National Security interests of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There could be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignore u. N. Rging of the Security Council. Putin condemned the attack is an act of aggression that will cause dam
We are looking at records, stock coming off of a record yesterday and we begin there once again. Dow, nasdaq, s p 500 even the index closing at new highs yesterday. Take a look. We are looking at the rally continue with another gain this morning of about 88 points, the dow likely to hit 19,000 level right at the opening of trade this morning. Oil prices this morning extending yesterdays gains, take a look. Oil now up and a quarter percent up to 48. 86 on crude, 49. 68 on brent crude, Global Markets on the rise as well. Ftse up 1 right now. The others up between twothirds and three quarters of one percent. That really is looking at the mining stocks among top performers in euro zone this morning. You will see nikkei up and hang seng in hong kong up one and a half percent. A Deadly School bus crash to report in tennessee. The driver has been charged after six people have been killed including five children. Authorities are looking at the speed of the bus as a factor, details coming up as
Bet on a blowout Earnings Report tonight. We will dig into those numberes. And facebook isnt the only set to announce numbers. We have a bunch. Weve got full Team Coverage of all the results coming your way. Love this time of the year, when the numbers are all coming out. Meanwhile, the Justice Department recently moved to block two huge health care deals and coming up, ralph will tell us what thats doing to the dealmaking climate and whether that is creating any tension between wall street and washington at a critical time of the campaign. And later we will hear from the top ranking executive at airbnb on his plan it win over the democratic party. Shouldnt be too hard given where he worked. But days after senator Elizabeth Warren called into a probe into whether sites like his are pushing up rental prices. Uber and airbnb, very big presence lobby wise at the Democratic Convention this week there in philadelphia. Lets start with the low earnings and low expectations and a pop for apple
And the more Muslim Brotherhood political islamistish people like bin laden and more other politically more oriented Leaders Within al qaeda. Within i. S. , more i. S. Seems more extreme. More purist. I dont see at this point any political current within that landscape at all. I mean, but that also may have to do on what kind of level or what kind of stage of evolution i. S. Is in at the moment. But for the threat to europe, i dont see theyre quite similar. I think the ideology is equally useful to or it can justify attacks in europe the same way. One final question here. Why are you so dismissive of lone wolves at the end of your remarks . Yeah. Thank you. Its because the lone wolf creates a sense of this kind of volatile, unpredictable threat, that if you basically see terrorists crawling out of the woodwork. And i think it doesnt rhyme with how i interpret the threat i have studied. Its more organized. And even those who operate quite independently are under influence, strong influe
Next, treasury secretary jack lew. With reporters on the domestic and global economies and his Upcoming Trip to the g7 summit. The event was hosted by the Washington Bureau of the Christian Science monitor. Its 50 minutes. Tv reporter from boston. Good to see you. Just retired this year. [ room noise ] youre going to be right here, sir. Were going to start right on time this morning. Im dave cook from the monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest is treasury secretary jacob lew. His last visit was in july 2015 and we appreciate his coming back before his trip next week to anchorage and then the g7 Foreign Ministers meeting in japan. Our guest flirted with a journalism career while he was editor of the Forest Hills High School beacon. He evidently thought better of it and while in college caught the washington bug, working for representative bella abzug and joe moakley, earned a bachelor degree at hafshtd and a law degree at jpmorgantown. Between 79 and 87 he learned politics from a master