City of london takes a day off. The 30 day average. A huge chunk out of volume. Yesterday, you missed quite a rally in italian bonds. Below three percent heading towards record lows on the italian bond yields. European elections took the headlines over the weekend. The big one on the weekend was matteo renzi who got a huge stamp of approval. It sent italian assets higher. At 1. 3654. Llar is 2 30 u. K. Time. Ipos continued to come thick and fast. Lloyds lands to sell their part next the positive stake month. Euro shares will also be on sale sometime next month. Will the deals be snapped up . Here is Caroline Hyde our European Business correspondent. Offer for us . 25 of all the shares that are currently held by lloyds. 1. 5 billionmate of pounds value of tsp, shares are going to go on sale as soon as next month. Lloyds offloads its unit that has four. 5 million customers, 631 branches across the u. K. , making it englands seventh against lender. They had to get rid of this unit. This i
Nuclear option. The historic move will help end the grid lock on president obamas judicial nominations. He hailed them this afternoon. Todays count of obstruction, it just isnt normal. Its not what our founders envisions. It is a deliberate determined effort, no matter where the merits just to fight the results of an election, is not normal. And for the sake of future generations we cant let it become normal. Libby casey joins us now with more on this grid lock busting vote. Lick by, there is plenty of reaction. Yeah, a big day on capitol hill. The rest of the country is scratching their head saying what is this situation, it can sound very dramatic. And in some ways it is, because it is the fundamental change in the way business is done in the senate. Usually it takes 60 votes to overcome a threat, but what senator reid did today is he said nope, we are going to go with just a simple majority. The woman after the heart of this, patricia millet, she was a judge that was a nominee for t
On investigating it as a terror attack. The incident happened as president she championed was wrapping up this first one to the region getting the four day trip she told government officials to strengthen Anti Terrorism measures and improved ethnic harmony. People in the region have lived with on rest forty years in two thousand and nine about a thousand protesters turned out in the raunchy for a rally against chinese old forties it escalated into a series of riots and about two hundred people were killed we the residents and Police Fought again a year ago in the cash garbage and twenty one people most of them Police Officers were killed two months later and on the group attacked police stations and government facilities in the torah commentary a thirty five people were killed. Wheelers have drawn increasingly frustrated by political and economic disparities with han chinese and the present chinese controls over their culture and religion. Doctors with the World Health Organization hav
Hello, welcome to countdown on bloomberg. Bloomberg reporters are ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. We are looking at the optimism surrounding the Child Support in the u. S. We have the details on twitter s tumble. In hong kong, we are following the china trade numbers. The best performing stock in europe last year. Were looking at a new player with a supermarket. Coming up, if your new years resolution is to shed those christmas pounds, you are in luck. Reveals which foods can kick your diet into high gear. And will even get to try a few. U. S. Jobless room port is out. If2. 2 7 million is a number. E get todays 197,000 that is how many jobs are added last year. Plenty of reason for a strong report for december. One of them pointed out by Goldman Sachs is quite simply the short holiday. You had this compressed hiring that goes on into the start of december. You have to start thinking about Something Else as well. Youre not just hiring for the shop floor, people ar
There it is. Yields falling today, jim and i have more on that. As for europe. Lets look at whats happening overseas, mostly green picture. Except for well, italys red, but the rest is good. Road map starts with fedex delivering the fiscal Fourth Quarter, shares higher in the premarket. The shipper forecasting better results next year. Ready, set, fed concluding the twoday meeting. What does that signal about growth and possible rate hikes . Seeing the forest through the trees . Amazon expected to unvail a new smart phone at a media event later today, but likely has nothing to do with talking. Fedex, 246 a share, Beat Estimates by a dime, helped by higher volumes in the ground business, and fred smith called the quarter outstanding adding, he believes the company is well positioned for a strong current fiscal year. This was a nice snap back, jim, right . From the winter that just cru crushed them. Higher ground volume. Positive impacts of highly average daily shipments, improved operat