Increase would likely be delayed. Retail sales in japan stalled in april. Grew slightlynomy faster than originally estimated in the first quarter. Growth accelerated to 0. 6 beating estimates,. Frances gdp report shows Business Investment jumped 2. 4 . The sunday times reported that the company may improve its bid for months and to this week. The revised offer good value the company at about 66 lean dollars, 66 billion. The ceo of singapores commodity Trader Noble Group has quit. The company says it has accepted his resignation, with three men replacing him. Their shares have plunged 60 in the past year with questions about its Accounting Practices dogging the company during the commodities crunch. Markets are closed in the u. S. And u. K. Today for the memorial day and spring bank holiday. Lets check in on what is trading. Equities, at european the stoxx 600 pretty much flat at the moment. The dax is posting some gains at 3 10 of a percent, cac 40 off by 1 10 of a percent. Lets look a
Euro area Economic Confidence rose for the second straight months in may, beating estimates. The highest level in four months. Boosted bywas strengthening Consumer Sentiment and improvements in the retail and construction sector. Greeces gdp contracted by 4. 5 since the prettiest quarter. Economic data for the country shows that quarterly exports fell since the previous quarter. Economic data showed markets are closed in the u. S. And the u. K. Today for the and spring bank respectively. The dax is still higher, up. 3 . The cac 40 is pretty much unchanged. There are some stocks were watching driven by m a news. Bayer is gaining after the sunday times reported they may put forward a new improved offer for monsanto as early as this week. Stocks one of the best reporting. Lets switch of the board and see what is happening in fx markets. It is a delicate a day of Dollar Strength, poise for the biggest monthly jump since september 12 14 on Janet Yellens comments. At the bond look markets be
Japan awaits an address from the emperor, the second time he has made his speech, live in tokyo. ,ollow me on twitter rishaadtv and dont forget to include. Trendingbusiness Greater China markets underway and 30 minutes. Indeed, a positive followthrough from wall street. Derailedis rally got from that disappointment at the boj, but we are back on track. The nonfarm payrolls number added some clarity on where investors think the u. S. Economy is going. The japan and rally under penned by yen weakness. Rpinned by yen weakness. Australia also extending, up 8 10 of 1 . The dollar steady with that data coming from china. Some domestic activity indicators coming through this week from china. The kiwi Dollar Holding Steady at the moment, stocks up by. 5 ahead of the rbnz decision, expecting another 25 basis points to come off that cash rate. To 3 ion is below that 1 target. 8 10 of 1 ,es up by a slight miss. Malaysia up by 2 10 of 1 . A quarter of 1 when it comes to the kospi. Hammered byce go
Our profile of president ial candidates continues thursday night on American History tv with a look at labor leader and socialist Party President ial candidate eugene debs. He ran for office five times in the early 20th century. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan3. Coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan3, the life and legacy of alexander hamilton. Hamiltons argument was that the war had been a common struggle. All the states were fighting together for the liberty of all, for the whole country. So he assumed the debts of the 13 states along with the federal debt. They would all be treated as one debt. They would be paid off at the same time. Saturday evening, a little after 7 00 eastern. Author and National Review Senior Editor Richard Brookhiser on the economic achievements of alexander hamilton. And then at 10 00 on real america, the 1945 War Department film the last bomb documents the final months of the b29 super fortress air campaign against japan, inclu
And what can picture . And were off to a cool start and havent seen temperatures this low in about a month from northeast ohio. 56 degrees right now and definitely the cooler air and look at that dew point, 55 throughout the weekend. I was talking about the o press oppressive air. The cold front slipped south and east and allows for temperatures to calm down. For sum met county, good morning, ashtabula at 59 degrees, inland locations, wayne county almost in the lower 50s and definitely the cool air is in place. The 5 live radar is not picking up moisture but some ground cloudy this were morning. You can see hour and throughout the weekend, we were talking about the lower 90s. What happened . 75, and were seeing about a 15 degrees temperature drop. And a lot of sunshine, though, in storage throughout the noon. And. We have to start with a Traffic Alert this were morning that is in the pepper pike area and we are closed on cedar road between landerbrooke and brainerd roads. What youre se