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Business confidence. The First Quarter was fine, but indicators for the Second Quarter are less strong. I do not see people cutting back existing plans, but they are not leaning forward in the way you might. Anna along for the ride, vw is nvest in ford, valuing it at 7 billion. Tropical storm barry heads for the louisiana, curbing oil out ports. Markets, welcome to the European Market open. 29 minutes into the start of it trading day. This is what the futures story looks like. Ftse futures, cap ...

Chinese equities are definitely leading the game. You can see one of the main gauges gaining 2 . We have a little bit of dollar weakness. Pmi isr manufacturing beating estimates. 60. 6. We were in line with expectations. Check out any kind of movement in europe. Look at the german bonds. Coming up up at 11 a. M. London time. The present we going to his outlook for the rest of the year. That includes china but also iran. Midday, the former u. S. Treasury secretary joins us. Towill also be speakin...

Eurodollar, 1. 20 two. A lot of the conversations today will focus on the dollar. Im looking at gold for a second day, down a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we talked doing business in italy and natural gas. Later on, we also speak with margaret from the World Economic forum. She joins us to talk global risks. Plus, janet henry talks trumps first year with us. She the global chief economist there. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra the u. S. Secretar...

Surveillance. In the and the european session has not come through to the asian session. We got the s p futures firmly in the negative territory. We have seen the s p futures on the back foot. Interesting to see what has been happening in the currency market. A lot of yen strength in the market. The dollar is down against the japanese currency. We heard from the japanese Prime Minister, he had some words to say about who is going to run the bank of japan. There has been lots of reports about Cor...

Their losses. The shenzhen composite fell more than 2 . Earlier this month, china plus government took unprecedented steps to bolster its stock. In greece, the latest talks on a bailout have begun this morning with the disagreement. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras says lawmakers have approved austerity measures, the creditors disagree. They say more reforms are necessary before greece can get any of the 95 billion worth of aid. Donald trump is worth 2. 9 billion. The celebrity president ial candid...

We are seeing a little bit of risk removal. This is what we are seeing in european stocks. They are joining the rebound as we see tensions surrounding the north korean country and peninsula easing. The yen dropping, gold dropping. Gainingor haven assets a touch. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra north koreas leader says the testfiring of a missile over japan yesterday was a meaningful prelude to containing guam. Kim jongun added that he will continue to watch th...

This is the company we are keeping an eye on. We understand that net income acmcame in better than expected. We are trying to figure out exactly what they do next, but results seem to be pretty good, well ahead of estimates. I am looking at many things, but overall, global stocks are extending declines and we are seeing this risk reversal permeating through a lot of the asset classes. Gold, up a patch. Then, you have the eurodollar at 1. 1841. The topix, in asia, its retreating for a fifth day. ...

It is monday morning, time to look at your data and what it is telling us. There is a little bit of a rally european stocks. Oc crude is the story of the day 48. 93. The nymex is up the tory government, after the weeks we had from the labor manifesto, the pound 1. 2924. We will have more on those equities rising in the optimism surrounding the Chinese International spending plan infrastructure, but first lets get to the bloomberg first word news. An unrivaled global cyber attack will continue cl...

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...

Its time to focus on infrastructure. Business leaders else would they think america should get back to building and constructing. Towe will have to find a way get more private capital resort. We have got to fix things up. Shed light on important issues and finance. Returns are going to be lower. All straight ahead on bloomberg best. Welcome, i am michael mckee. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important business analysis, and interviews from around the world. The week was b...