Top 2 million for the top two weeks. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is markets. When you look at the markets, they seem to be focused a lot on hong kong. At the same time, u. S. Stocks are dropping futures. If you look at washington and beijing, escalating after china announced the National Security law. Oil snapped a sixday winning streak. We will also have much more. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika hi, francine. Imposing restrictions on Chinese Companies listed on u. S. Exchanges, but the parliament stop short of passing a vote. The senate had overwhelming support from both parties. Rising pushback against china on capitol hill. President trump has decided to withdraw from the open skies treaty. He wants to promote transparency between the u. S. And washer, and russia, citing until there is a deal, we will pull out. Secretary of state mike pompeo says there could be a d
The 30year at 3. 222 and today is jobs friday lets look at expectations forecasters say that the economy probably added 160,000 jobs last month. The Unemployment Rate is seen Holding Steady at 3. 5 the backdrop for this mornings report, stocks at record highs the dow closing within points of 29,000 yesterday, 28,956 apple was a big driver shares of the neck giant up more than 2 and its also adding to the gains this morning its up another 2. 20. Apple last trading at 311. 84. On a trillion and a half. Trillion and a half market cap. It was a broad rally, all 11 sectors of the s p 500 closed higher. Are we taking the under on the jobs i just feel like it would be the under on the jobs. Youve got the weird seasonal things that take place. The number was so blow out last time. It revised higher than months before that, too. It seems like eventually theres a regression or whatever you want to call it to the mean. Im hoping its good. 160,000. 160,000 is a lot. Trade continuing to be a huge s
Believed to be carlos ghosn moments before his escape from japan. Plus, history in the making as the iconic king of cool, Steve Mcqueen mustang hits the Auction Block today, otherwise known as elenor a sneak peek as Worldwide Exchange begins right now good morning, and welcome. Happy friday your mystery chart of the morning. The stock is down some 40 right now, were going to reveal that name to watch coming up. But first off, here is how stock futures are looking as we kick off this friday morning, as all the major averages are coming off record closes. You can see here if we stay with these futures moves, the s p opens up another 8 point, another 65 points for the dow and 33 points for the nasdaq the bull run continues investors can look to apple. Those shares hitting record highs, helping push the averages as well. You can see apple up another threequarters of one percent. Over the last year this stock has doubled. Treasury yields moving ever so slightly remember, we had some really
A nuisance to you. And to germany is about to introduce new immigration rules to attract skilled to what we tell you more about the requirements. I want to jones and this is the business to have you with us shares are down the top prices spiked following the u. S. Airstrikes in iraq that killed a top iranian commander heightening geopolitical tensions the paneuropean stock 600 index was down 0. 8 percent with all major country indexes well in the red the european travel and leisure sector shed 1. 8 percent led by losses for Airlines Lufthansa air france and easy jet that of course as oil prices jumped nearly 3 percent in asia brought emmis cia asia pacific index fell from an 18 month high sending individual markets in Shanghai Hong Kong and tokyo south. Now for more lets bring in our Financial Markets correspondent its in a frankfurt only 1st of all why is a hefty such a strong Market Reaction what a trade us so worried about. Theyre worried about possibly another war in the middle eas
Been carried out under a direct order from the president the u. S. Airstrike sparked concerns over an escalation of regional tensions that could disrupt crude supplies on news of the assassination brant crude rose just over 4 percent spiking at 60 9. 50 a barrel thats its highest since mid september when Saudi Oil Facilities were attacked briefly slashing output in the worlds top exporter by half asian stocks indices were broadly lower after the strike investors turned to safe haven assets such as gold swiss francs and japanese yen as they brace themselves for repercussions. Lets bring in our financial correspondent live arts in frankfurt only so fear is of escalation of conflict escalation in the region clearly have investors who now what action do you think they want to see from iran and the u. S. At this point. Well clearly some indication that theres not going to be the kind of escalation that people fear and that can get quite out of hand if one side reacts too quickly and too har