Keeping rates on hold. It is 8 00 a. M. In dubai, 5 00 in london, and this is Bloomberg Markets middle eas. We are just under two hours away from the opening of the emirates markets. Dubai and abu dhabi. Lets run you how they last closed last week. Take a look at dubai, abu dhabi and qatar. You can see a mixed picture. Youre going to the earnings season. We have a couple of big bang results in abu dhabi. Also must recommend in dubai. We will see how this open. Elsewhere in the gulf, lots of optimism off the back of that makeup saudi funded sale. More about that later in the show. And over in egypt, up 1. 4 . We are waiting for a potential currency devaluation, has not happened yet. In israel, tel aviv stocks relatively unchanged. Looking at how markets closed in the u. S. , we have the s p 500 pretty much treading water, despite the middle of earnings season, and some pretty decent corporate results. The dow jones also in the middle of change. Nasdaq up one third of a percentage point.
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Welcome to the program, everybody. This is countdown, live from london. Just at 6 00 in the morning here in london. Let us get to breaking news this morning. We have a lot earnings coming through, starting with the business that is syngenta. In the process of becoming acquired by the stateowned at 43 billion. In the meantime, they have given us an update. Performance is resilient in a challenging marketplace. They are giving a sales number for the First Quarter, 3. 74 billion, just ahead that was estimated by the market. There has been a host of mergers and acquisitions, dow chemical trying to merge with the rival dupont as well. A lot of talk about on the m a, and whether the deal with china will go through. Trading through the offering price, we saw traders talking about only a 35 chance of this deal actually being done. Concerns ingulation the u. S. Particularly around this kind of industry, seem to be a concern for some watching the sector. Let us move on. We have a lot of news com
For the Keystone Pipeline the state Department Issues the even if they say its not, its always about money. Volume report saying it will not hurt the environment by proponents claim our next guest is in the middle of this fight in nebraska. Welcome to the show. Even the state department, the state Department Says no bigger environmental impact. How do you respond . First of all, has to be in the National Interest with the National Interest we have Energy Security but the president s promise to delay this five years and not taking action to make sure it did not hurt the environment and increased Carbon Dioxide. This report clearly states the impact to the environment is minimal and in fact, does not increase Carbon Dioxide and could lower its so the is no more excuses. I with the president to take his phone to call the Prime Minister of canada to y we are donee i will approve this. Gerri i have to tell you we have other hurdles before she will think about that. First of all, eight agenc
For the Keystone Pipeline the state Department Issues the even if they say its not, its always about money. Volume report saying it will not hurt the environment by proponents claim our next guest is in the middle of this fight in nebraska. Welcome to the show. Even the state department, the state Department Says no bigger environmental impact. How do you respond . First of all, has to be in the National Interest with the National Interest we have Energy Security but the president s promise to delay this five yea and not taking action to make sure it did not hurt t environment and increased Carbon Dioxide. This report clearly states the impact to the environment is minimal and in fact, does not increase Carbon Dioxide and could lower its so there is no more excuses. I with the president to take his phone to call the Prime Minister of canada to say we are donee i will approve this. Gerri i have to tell you we have other hurdles before she will think about that. First of all, eight agenc