Eurodollar still trading around that 1. 16 level. We will get some analysis on that in just a moment. Crude just coming off its lows. The other thing worth mentioning is that we are seeing the curve flattening down a little bit today. Big moves in the 30 year on both sides of the olympic. Alix moments ago of the atlantic. Alix moments ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his plan for lockdown. Pm johnson we are not going back to the fullscale lockdown of march and april, and there are ways in which these measures are less strict. Alix he also promised a Mass Testing Program to begin in days with rapid tests. Joining us is Bloomberg Government reporter emily ashton. What is going to be the take away over the next four to six weeks . Emily this is the concern of conservative mps. The lawmakers here in parliament. We have this vote wednesday on whether this second lockdown will go ahead. I think we expect that vote to be approved, despite maybe about a dozen of Boris Johnsons own co
That continues to decrease as gold and other assets move higher. A big deal today, allergan up theon the neil that on news that abbvie will buy it. 20 is not as much as the 45 premium that abbvie is offering. Hsbcs ceost guy john flint weighing in on President Trumps trade war with china. Take a listen. When we get past trade, i think it is clear that there is a broader desire to see china contained in some way. I think we will move into a chapter that covers technology, and maybe bifurcation of technology and technology standards. Guy containment. Havent heard that in a while. We are joined by john rochester, nomura asset strategy. Does trump do a sort of kim jongun and walk away . It could go that way. The market is not expecting that, so that is a long dollar trade. In essence, holding long dollar is the better choice of the two because since last tuesday when we had the news of the beating between the two sides, we have , the feddollars often now having 95 basis points in cuts pric
Reactions from what we saw from pyongyang. You, thest i can give equity market, the stoxx 600 was down earlier. Down by 4 10 of 1 . Assetst sets haven after the testing. North korea is continuing to prepare for a possible intercontinental listed Missile Launch, reddening to raise tensions further. The stock is down. A Good Opportunity to look at the fear gauge. Europes fear index. , now it is up a mere 7 . The 12 gained it was the highest since august 18. Last tuesday when north korea fired the missile over japan, higher index closed 9 after rising an intraday 15 . Trumps fire and fury comment in early august prompted it to rise to 19. 3 on august 11. That was the highest since april. We were nowhere to the levels we were in april before the French Election and the levels we reached before the u. S. Election last november. Those are the brexit levels we saw in june last year. That puts it in perspective. Europes fear gauge. Index, given what is happening with the north korea story. Thi
They do see fourthquarter dajusted ebit. At 200 ebit monthly users up about 4 . The stock up about 5 in the premarket. David we have earnings at ford, ford out of they are beating on revenue and earnings per share. Gap actually reported by earnings per share of . 39 per share as opposed to a . 32 percent . 32 prediction. They controlled costs beautifully. They had record sales in the pacific in asia. The one thing that fell short, europe. Why . Brexit. Bob shanks will be talking about this in about 20 minutes. Jonathan the ecb, 45 minutes away we get the decision. Is it that beginning of the end of the qe plan . Mario draghi expected to announce a scaling back of the Bond Buying Program and loose Monetary Policy. Running us now from outside the ecb in frankfurt is bloombergs matt miller. What is on the table . Matt the consensus is for a cut in half, from 60 billion euros a month in bond purchases down to 30 billion euros a month, and an extension of the program for nine months until s
There have been at least two explosions near a soccer stadium where germany was playing france in a big game tonight. The president of france was at the game. He has now been evacuated from the stadium and is at the interior ministry, which runs the French Version of the fbi. He is apparently meeting with all of his Emergency Response heads there at the interior ministry as we unroll this video four of various scenes in the central part of paris. There is in the 10th and 11th east. Were also told at this hour third location. Casualty numbers at this early hour will all be wrong but French Police are reporting that many people have been killed likely somewhere over a dozen, but we want to emphasize that we do not know what the casualty numbers could be. All of this has been unfolding over the last hour or so in the french capital. We have our cbs News Reporter elaine cobb on the phone with us from paris what are you hearing. Reporter this is all unfolding and very conniptioning. Police