Virgin australia tracks interest from indias largest by just budget carrier. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under pressure, this after the regular session ended mixed. Markets pretty optimistic about reopening some parts of the u. S. Economy, but also a bit more cautious given that we have seen flareups around the world. The s p 500 finished unchanged. Health care led the gains, but financials weighed on the index. The nasdaq composite getting for the sixth consecutive session, outperforming again. The longest winning streak this year. Take a look at what oil is doing. Wti gaining ground, above 24 a barrel. This after it fell and erased earlier gains in the new york session. Tohave saudi arabias plan output, providing a boost but that was not sustained. We have opec given its Monthly Oil Market report on wednesday. Haidi in the u. S. , President Trump has responded to reports china is considering scrapping the p
Expected machinery data as the nikkei hits the highest level since december 1996. And at least 17 people are dead and thousands of buildings are destroyed as a series of wildfires rage across Northern California good morning glad youre with us on this wednesday. Its the morning after we heard that speech from mr. Puigdemont in the Catalan Parliament it was a climb down. Yes, he did say the country or the region wants to go for independence, first he wants to go back to madrid and start talks. Whether that will materialize is the big question the reaction in the market is mixed. We are not seeing a huge rally on the stoxx 600 yes, were seeing a rally on the ibex 35, but its not transpiring into a much bigger risk on rally in the rest of europe were down when it comes to the ftse 100 the cac 40 lower to a quarter. Once again want to draw your attention to the ibex 35. Its up close to session highs, up by 1. 25 . This is after catalonias leader Carles Puigdemont stopped short of declaring
Some see trump for market is an assassination threat to hillary. Linton. 5 of 1 . Off youre looking at the euro stoxx 50. We are keeping a close eye on some of the earnings coming through. A significant drop in that profit. We are seeing some big writedowns but we have to keep an eye on oil. That is pinpointing this risk aversion today. Guy the german dax is up 2. 5 . The story is where it is happening with the dollar. You can see this on my gmm function. That is rippling through what is happening in the commodity complex. Gold is reasonably well bid. Good story continues to be what is happening in fixed income and what the bank will say it 9 a. M. At 9 a. M. In london. Lets find out what is going on. Trump is causing controversy yet again. The nominee told a rally that what he called Second Amendment people, those who back gun ownership could stop democratic rival Hillary Clinton from becoming president. He said she wants to abolish firearms and said maybe there is something they coul
Live from bloombergs European Headquarters here in london. I am Francine Lacqua. We will be joined by the prudential ceo, mike wells. The Company Reports earnings and a half hour from now. He joins us 40 minutes from now. 10 minutes after the release. We will be talking about brexit and all of the challenges he has to do in the wake of negative rates around the world. We will be talking about guilds. We are grading were getting breaking news out of the doe. Yesterday was the first time the boe ran into this stumbling block. The second day it was buying that it expand this qe program. The boe seeking offers and 1. 1 7 billion field operation. Do what it to is trying to do is it will include a shortfall. I dont know whether they are buying shortterm maturities which are easier to there are more sellers of that. Boe is saying it will seek office in this 1. 17 billion pound guild operation. I dont know if they are changing that much in terms of timeline. We will bring you any new boe headl
Turkey. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a political setback. The antiimmigration alternative for Germany Party made strong gains in preset elections that were dominated by the refugee crisis. Support for her Democratic Union fell across the board. Donald trump is trying to counter a late challenge from john kasich and ohio. Polls show john kasich a be pulling ahead, and days before the primary there. His campaign has been overshadowed by growing violence at his events. Activist groups and supporters of democrat bernie sanders. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus and now to thed, markets with matt. Matt take a look at futures. We are down across the board. Not huge drops, but a loss of 15 points on dow jones. If you take a look at the indexes, or lets take out the s p and look at yourtodate, you can see we are at a level to almost where we back to were at the beginning of the year . Being unchanged for the year, which is co