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The german chancellor says the cost are two great. 00 too great. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what markets are focusing on, partly what Angela Merkels, partly Emmanuel Macron. Let me go through the impact heavy on the markets. Areou look at stocks, they really fluctuating after data from the economies here in europe, and that is really costing casting doubt on the resurgence virus infection. We have french manufacturing unexpectedly contracting in august. Highlighting the need for further stimulus. I am also looking at offshore to extend less than six months, seven months, actually, when china market from the pandemic became one of the worlds fastest. This is what we are getting in terms of pmi out of the eurozone, expectations or certainly there in ....
I know. Alltime highs we have like, what, 39 trading days to go is that it . It is a tight time frame here the interesting thing around the market is it has shrugged off concern. One of the reason the market has gone higher is because of really light positioning. That mentality hasnt changed. That has fuelled the rally in the market you see the dow in the green but just barely. Nasdaq futures down by a point again, we are sitting at new highs after the gains we added on yesterday you look at the treasury market yielding 1. 85 xerox looking at buying hp. The company has an informal funding commitment xerox has a Market Company a third of hp. Both of these companies former technology stall waters. Xerox has had a couple of falls. Do people steel xerox things it is like faxing. Hp has tried to keep up it is like help me im drowning. Hp shares are up. Xerox somehow is the acquiring company. And there would be a premium to hps market c ....
At a joint News Conference alongside european commissioner president Jeanclaude Juncker as, hemanian president han brought up the issue of brexit. The withdrawal of agreement open for be renegotiation. We look forward to working together with the next u. K. Prime minister. We want to avoid the dissolving of brexit and establish a future relationship and stay as close as possible with the u. K. Europe relations [inaudible] mark comments came after European Union leaders held a twoday summit in which they failed to reach a deal on candidates for the blocks top jobs. Vice president and has postponed his speech planned for monday criticizing chinas human rights record. The Vice President says he and President Tru ....
And some data just came out on german business climate. The ifo german bit climate coming in at the estimate 104. 5. The number coming in at 105. 5. Slightly higher than what we saw in november and in line with estimates. The German Ifo Business sentiment came in at 105. 5. Why do we care about this . Germany, of course, is europes largest economy. Given its high exposure to russia, German Economy has been showing signs of weakness over the past couple of months. The recent zew survey did come in higher than expected indicating a improvement in Business Sentiment. Were looking at the euro slightly higher trading at 1. 2332. Lets bring in simon, who is joining us now to get your reaction to this german ifo number. Does this surprise you . We see this, the zew and the pmi data lately. I think mainly the main surpr ....