continue this travesty and darkness and i want sunlight. that s a nice way of saying it. isn t that pretty. i want sunlight. i want everything exposed to the public. and let s let the public decide because i want cameras at every inch of that courthouse. careful what you wish for? no, he doesn t. we got a lot to cover from that speech on saturday, including some frightening comments from the front-runner in the republican primary. meanwhile, donald trump s defense team will present its case in the civil fraud trial. we ll tell you who is taking the stand later today in new york. also ahead, it appears the new house speaker is not ready to move forward with the impeachment inquiry into president biden. we ll go through that new reporting. plus, we ll play for you the surprise announcement from republican senator tim scott, one of the five candidates who was just on the debate stage last week. we ll also bring to you the very latest out of israel and gaza. good mond
Will the free democrats be able to and green party for my deal with that . Democrats this is bloomberg surveillance. Im mark martin in london. Equities, seven days of decline before today. Sinceosing streaks november last year. The streak has ended one hour into the thursday session. Stocks are up hundred, buying 4 10 of 1 . Sterling lower, the dollar falling for its first day in three. Retail sales data across the bloomberg terminal terminal, down roughly. We will bring it to life. Nflation tuesday german 10 year yield up today. 39 basis points, rising for the first day in three. 48 basis points before the ecb. In october, 26. That puts it in perspective. Its come down since then. Oil is up, 55. 35. U. S. Rose,in the extending its record run. But get bloomberg first new first word is with sebastian selleck. Sebastian ron johnson has become the first republican to oppose the gop tax plan in the senate. He says it doesnt do enough for a lot of businesses. That came as house leaders clea
Investors failed to go ballistic. He will take care of the situation. Will he . 10,000. Rosses will we see aggressive profittaking . That today not see because bitcoin is up another 500 in todays trading. Currency gp. He xb if you look at the percent missed price it indicated again for the dax and the cap this morning, indicated loss for the ftse, the euro stoxx. Up. 51 . It does not look like equities on the continent will be opening a negative territory but there could be pressure in the u. K. Guy are we talking about irrational exuberance again . The famous greenspan words that came to haunt the markets. It took a while to get there but that was a factor that the markets ended up having to deal with. Lets take a look at the s p record after record after record on u. S. Equities. We were up another 1 , 26. 27. The ftse had a solid base and european equities had a solid day. A more mixed start. Futures are beginning to firm. Lets talk about what else where watching. The british pound
Julie hyman is here. More records. We have had many of them this year. Pretty remarkable. The down the s p close to records yesterday. Any gains today would represent more records on a closing basis here. Terms of gains, we have telecoms, financials, and health care leading the pack. Wavering between gains and losses. A pairing of out of the gate it appearsmorning, to be energy. Vonnie mentioned the surge of energy and now prices are going down. Nowave got a big leg lower and we saw so Similar Movement off one third of 1 . We have been looking around for what is going on exactly and we have the latest data on stockpiles in the u. S. Not the latest but rather reserves that showed a little balance from a 13 year low. It is not clear exactly what but we are seeing oil may be a little more delicate. Were taking a look at what is going on with media as we continue to get reports disney is getting ever closer to a deal with 21st century fox. Yesterday, it was no longer interested in those as
Mixed day today european equities after the benchmark stock exchange. Investors are waiting for the outcome of the tax vote in the u. S. Equities. Mixed day for fx. Look at the yields rise. Ireland, france, belgian, germany, commodities giving you a feel of the market today. Some Business Confidence out of germany, unexpectedly weakening its december. The gains remains near its alltime high, as you can see from the line right there, respecting the fact that the economy has excelled this year amid robust domestic spending and recovery in global trade. Debt surging this year, taking benchmark yields to the lowest level since april of 2015. To spanish levels, theres more credit defaultts swaps so says richard hodges. If movies follows fitch in upgrading the sovereign debt next year, Sovereign Rating next year, he says the swap should narrow the gap widths main as well gap with spain as well. Portugal versus spain, a 10 year yield spread is the white line. Very quickly, this is the oneday