BLOOMBERG The Pulse August 5, 2016
Im francine lacqua. Lets quickly check on the markets. Centralas to do with banks. After the boe surprise yesterday with qe, the focus turns to u. S. Jobs data. This is the picture. European stocks, a touch higher. In terms of the amount of money passing hands, lower than it usually is around early august. The pound, yesterday we saw a huge move in pound. I wanted also to show you the europound at 84. 80. Its been quite a tough week for banks. I wanted to show you that index overall. Plenty more on corporate stories, but first, lets get to the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra ...