This is what i am looking at. Most in europe give us the action today. Chinese exports seemed to be underscoring the resilience of the global recovery. We are also looking at crude, claiming climbing above 51 and record climbing above 51 a barrel. Bitcoin at a record. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra European Central Bank Officials are considering cutting monthly bond buying by a half, starting in january. The program may be kept active for at least nine months. They said reducing quantitive easing for 30 230 billion euros a month is a feasible 30 billion euros a month is a feasible option. The president of the atlanta fed sees says he is not sure the fomc will raise rates in december. This quantifies a strengthening inflation. I think there is much more to learn about what is happening in terms of inflation dynamic. I would say that inflation is starting to pick up. Chinas overseas shipments rose from a year earlier, narrowly missing estimates. Imports rose. That resul
There is t minus one year and 11 months to hash out a deal. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua. We are joined by the head of all the assets. We will be speaking to Aberdeen Asset managements martin gilbert. If you have any questions and are a bloomberg customers, just hit tv. We can ask the guests a question on your behalf. This is the eurozone data and eurozone manufacturing pmi, coming in at 56. 7, a touch below what economists were expecting. Anything below 50 indicates an expansion and it is a touch above what we had the previous month. This is for april, for the euro area. We are waiting for the breakdown to give us the strength and weaknesses of each country. This is the picture for the markets and i would point to global stocks overall rallying. European stocks, gaining 0. 2 , heading for fresh highs. Investors are focusing on stronger corporate earnings. The yen, extending losses. A second. T to the and first, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news.
Hoursr in hal af an time. 4sbcs First Quarter hit 5. 9 billion. It will contemplate share buybacks as and when appropriate. Anna edwards spoke with the banks cfo and asked whether 2017 will be the end of revenue decline. I have to say id be a happy man if i could close out 2017 right now. Revenued to see 4 growth over the course of 2017 and notwithstanding a very good start in the First Quarter. That is the guidance we are holding as we move into discussions with investors. Anna can i ask you about share buybacks . Were were some that disappointed to not see another. Last summer he talked, you said the ratio target of 12 . If youre about that you will contemplate returning cash. You are well above that. Why no cash right now . We have just finished a 1 billion buyback on the 12th of april. When you add to what we did last year, that is 3. 5 billion. I would not encourage investors to think we are going to do buybacks every quarter. Were very happy at 14. 4 . As we said, the happier las
And russia yesterday deciding to extend the production cuts and the iaea saying the demand outlook is slightly downgraded on lower first half estimates. Non opec increased in 600,000 barrels per day. You can see brent is up on the back of that, 52. 19. It was around 51. 7 when i looked at that. Oil is climbing a little bit more. Reminder yesterday, we found out audi plan to extend production cuts for another six months. Watch oil. We will bring you those trump headlines. That is giving a nice risk to the euro dollar, the dollar weakening for a fifth straight day. The euro is soaring amidst classified information donald trump made or may not have given to a russian diplomat. We are looking for the mexican peso strengthening and the south korean yuan strengthening. We will get more on your markets, but lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Reporter we start with europe. Angela merkel has vowed to work with macron. That as the german chancellor hosted the newly elected frenc
Need to look out for is volatility in the market. Your markets and this is what we are seeing overall. Global stocks seem to be more study certainly than they were yesterday. Rising. X stocks and europe edging higher. That means theyre having their worst week since november. The brazilian real well talk about all day, 3. 37. The vix down. A little bit of a swing upwards yesterday. Lets get to first word news. Sebastian the u. S. Treasury secretary says breaking up the banks would be a huge mistake. Steven mnuchin says the u. S. Administration does not support splitting commercial and investment banking. Elizabeth warren accused him of a bizarre policy shift. Temer has defined calls to step down, saying an investigation will clear him of a coverup. Media claimed that he approved hush money for the former House Speaker. Realurmoil has seen the tumble. U. K. Political parties have criticized theresa mays approach to brexit ahead of next months election. Jeremy corbyn refused to take her b