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Halliburton abandoning plans with baker hughes union regulators were not happy with Loretta Lynch saying no merger is too big to challenge. Let us know what you think of our top stories on twitter. The yen dominating what is going on with japanese equity trading. The markets are closed today. Reporter talk about first trading day of may. Markets. As reshot pointed out, have a look at japan. They are down 4 . A lot of that happening with a stronger japanese yen. Australia, just about every stock on the nikkei underwater at the moment. When you take the losses back on thursday, we are down about 7. 5 over just two trading days. Lets break it down across sectors. Down onngle sector is the nikkei. Have a look at the nikkei volatility index. We are looking at a sharp jump. It up there . There we go 18 higher. That is something to watch. A lot of people are starting to downsize. When the yen starts jumping around, expect people to be ris ....
Is expected to touch on this evening in the state of the union. Lets check on u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Youre seeing implied open for all major averages here. S p 500 would open up by 8 points. Dow up by 50 points. The nasdaq up by 21 points and a lot of that is based on firming in the markets over in europe. Better than expected gdp numbers out of china and of course thats helping move Global Markets in a vastly different direction than we have seen for much of the month. Breaking news overnight too. Isis releasing a video early today which has been verified by nbc news consultants. It shows two japanese hostages and the now notorious isis militant seen in previous videos. Hes now demanding 200 million from the japanese government within 72 hours or the hostages will be killed. Japan reacting with anger demanding a release of the hostages and saying it will not yield to terrorism. Quite a stunning release of this video a ....
Guess whos back. Francine im Francine Lacqua. We begin with modis European Tour. Guy the Prime Minister is hoping to attract investment. On this topic, i sat down with gp hinduja, and he weighed in on europes attitude toward his home country. Gopichand france was the first country which opened. Germany is doing the same thing. Americans are following. Why not britain . Guy more on that interview throughout the program. He basically says the u. K. Could do so much more. We are behind belgium, switzerland, germany in terms of our export story. Francine he was talking about people having fire in the belly and also talking about getting up and doing whatever he wants because hes so good at it. Guy he loves solving problems. He gets up early, does a bit of yoga, has a nice breakfast. Francine lets see what mr. Modi is up to. ....
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And the Opposition Party says they will allow for over 850 Million People who make their way to the polls in the biggest democracy. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Good morning. Welcome to the show. It is merger monday. And they are seeking approval for a 50 million merger. Lafange is the largest company. And next what we are looking at is the deal has finally been sealed after a bidding war for 17 billion euro deal. Well see how that ends. It is now down to three bids despite those offers being backed by the french government. The stock is up nearly 8 . That news had to give a boost to markets in europe. Earlier the squawk box team said a big ticket deal will dominate the deal landscape this year. Emphasis ha ....