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Business confidence. The First Quarter was fine, but indicators for the Second Quarter are less strong. I do not see people cutting back existing plans, but they are not leaning forward in the way you might. Anna along for the ride, vw is nvest in ford, valuing it at 7 billion. Tropical storm barry heads for the louisiana, curbing oil out ports. Markets, welcome to the European Market open. 29 minutes into the start of it trading day. This is what the futures story looks like. Ftse futures, cap teachers pointing high cac futures looki. The session in asia is more mixed. The trade story and the...

Chinese equities are definitely leading the game. You can see one of the main gauges gaining 2 . We have a little bit of dollar weakness. Pmi isr manufacturing beating estimates. 60. 6. We were in line with expectations. Check out any kind of movement in europe. Look at the german bonds. Coming up up at 11 a. M. London time. The present we going to his outlook for the rest of the year. That includes china but also iran. Midday, the former u. S. Treasury secretary joins us. Towill also be speaking microsoft. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. In iran, the death toll has climbed. 20 peop...

Eurodollar, 1. 20 two. A lot of the conversations today will focus on the dollar. Im looking at gold for a second day, down a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we talked doing business in italy and natural gas. Later on, we also speak with margaret from the World Economic forum. She joins us to talk global risks. Plus, janet henry talks trumps first year with us. She the global chief economist there. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra the u. S. Secretary of state offered a sobering assessment about the possibility of war with north korea. Madeillerson...

Surveillance. In the and the european session has not come through to the asian session. We got the s p futures firmly in the negative territory. We have seen the s p futures on the back foot. Interesting to see what has been happening in the currency market. A lot of yen strength in the market. The dollar is down against the japanese currency. We heard from the japanese Prime Minister, he had some words to say about who is going to run the bank of japan. There has been lots of reports about Corona Kuroda been tapped for a second term being tapped for a second term. We have an exclusive interv...

Their losses. The shenzhen composite fell more than 2 . Earlier this month, china plus government took unprecedented steps to bolster its stock. In greece, the latest talks on a bailout have begun this morning with the disagreement. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras says lawmakers have approved austerity measures, the creditors disagree. They say more reforms are necessary before greece can get any of the 95 billion worth of aid. Donald trump is worth 2. 9 billion. The celebrity president ial candidate has said he is worth more than 10 billion. The bloomberg billionaires index shows that the major...