and labour gains.nsofar as the liberal democrats might in an early general election be able to win more seats, given the evidence from scotland and we have to rely on the opinion polls that the snp aren't going anywhere outside of westminster any time soon, i think everyone who keeps on arguing, may be the way out of the brexit impasse is to have another general election, they should remember that perhaps there is a nontrivial probability that we would end up with another hung parliament and frankly whether it's a hung parliament in which we either have a labour or conservative prime minister, it might prove to be a parliament that is incapable of reaching a decision about brexit as the current one. that's a cheerful conclusion at 5:47am! once i said cheerful, he started laughing! i'm wondering, because we are off there in ten minutes or so, but of course we will be back on later with more results later in the morning. for those of you just tuning in now if they are getting up early and just seeing the

the lib dems have gained that.ou the seat change, that shows you exactly what has happened. the conservatives have lost 23, almost all of those seats have gone to the liberal democrats. if we go back to the main screen, the other liberal democrat gain on this screen, somerset west and taunton. they say isa somerset west and taunton. they say is a brand—new council. it has been formed by the merger of two councils, taunton and west somerset. both of these councils were conservative. it was largely thought that this new council would therefore be conservative as well, with liberal democrat opposition. in fa ct, with liberal democrat opposition. in fact, look what has happened. the liberal democrats have got it with a majority of one. an unexpected win. the conservatives on ten seats. independents on 1a. a strong showing. the conservatives have lost 31 seats based on the notional aggregate of seats they would have had in the two former councils. let me take you back to the main screen to look at the overall picture. t

have gained 66. scoreboard. i would like to join mike emily for the that is the scoreboard. i would like tojoin mike emily for the news. here is that summary because of the first results are coming in from voting in local elections across england and northern ireland. elections have been held for 248 — councils, six mayors and 11 councils and northern ireland. jessica parker reports. reports coming in, smiles and chairs, but as disappointment for temperament. they have lost control of some errors, they are looking at a small net loss of seats. it's not looking good. this is going to be a very difficult night for us. we have been out and about across the borough, the message we are getting loud and clear is all about brexit. the residents of telling us they are going to make sure there are some changes because of their dissatisfaction over brexit. the tories are looking at net losses too. despite holding onto the battleground of swindon, the conservatives have lost control of st albans, conservatives

the greens gaining 496 also losing 4%. the greens gaining 4% there. lincolnshire was a conservative gain from no overall control. ashfield was a bad news story for the labour party. that went from no overall control to independent, a group of independents have taken ashfield council, which will have been a difficult moment for labour. wirral also went from labour to no overall control. i want to show you what happened here. so although labour remain the largest party with 32 seats and the conservatives on 22, let me show you what happened to the share change. isn't that interesting? i think i've got a sea change there, let me take it back again. there you go. that's what i wanted. labour on —13% of the share and look what's happened to the greens. they have gained 12% of the share. they will be very happy with that. i'll take you back to my big screen one last time. one good gain for labour, one prominent game for labour this evening has been trafford, which they will have been very happy about. reeta, thanks very much. i suppose when we look at that

the liberal democrats made sweeping gains across devon, gaining five seats in torbay and 10 in north control of north devon by a single seat. labour held every one of their seats in plymouth and gained another, with luke pollard mp saying his local party members were "bucking the national trend, and showing what labour can achieve". on a difficult night for the conservatives, they dropped behind ukip in several plymouth wards, including ham, devonport and honicknowle. martyn oates, bbc south west's political editor has more. there are some remarkable similarities between the results here tonight and the results here in this hall almost exactly a year ago. then the conservative government was not being particularly helpful in terms of its national policies to the conservative councillors on the ground here. on that occasion, labour took the council from the conservatives, bucking the national trend, it was the only target council that labour took that night, jeremy corbyn turned up next morning to celebrate. tonight, labour may be being damaged elsewhere, here again, though, they have

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this is a labour gain from the conservatives, they have gained it bya conservatives, they have gainednd the greens. hold that in your heads while you look at this, north—east derbyshire. here, there is the opposite story going on. this is a conservative gain from labour, going on. this is a conservative gainfrom labour, and going on. this is a conservative gain from labour, and they have a majority of seven. this council has been labour since the 19705. let's have a look at the seat change here, labour losing 17 seats, the conservatives gaining 13, the liberal democrats, three and the independents, one. what we might be seeing here is what professorjohn curtice has been talking about, which is, while this has been a disappointing night, to different degrees, for both the conservatives and labour, it feels as if voters are punishing the incumbent party.” would like to go to leeds now, because the senior labour mp hilary benn is waiting to talk to us, the chair of the brexit select committee. thank you very much for joining us. what is your reading of these results? look, ithink it is j

european equities are gaining in frankfurt. -- cac is gaining. countries should not grab all the jobs. he is calling for the eu to protect smaller and newer countries. joining us from romania is a bloomberg's maria tadeo. how politicized is this process going to be? i think of these words really that this should be, in principle, a fair competition. every country needs to be represented, but on the ground, it is a different story. the european central the holy grail of european politics. the french and germans and so on have made it clear they want to get big jobs in the new political cycle. , the europeanious leaders are not in a position to shortlist candidates but are also not in a position to agree with the system by which they should be elected. we have had people like emmanuel should not just be a reflection of european elections but an open competition. it could bring in new names like michel barnier. but it is clear this will be a tight and competitive race. matt: european leaders are also talking about the i run deal. -- iran deal. will

the lib dems have gained 17 already. the greens gaining five.cal elections play ha rd westminster. local elections play hard in terms of issues that matter around the country, schools, transports but no question about it, the two big parties do seem to be losing out because of the individual agonies over the exit process and the smaller parties, whether it is the smaller parties, whether it is the lib dems, the greens, appear to be benefiting from that. we were talking earlier about swindon. it is a conservative hold and it is one of the results we can talk about. these are some of the early results. swindon has just are some of the early results. swindon hasjust come in are some of the early results. swindon has just come in and are some of the early results. swindon hasjust come in and it is a conservative hold. they are still counting. there are still three seats to the clay but the conservatives have got over the winning post. 29, labour on 23. liberal democrats onto. let me show you the share change. this is interesting. this council very f

looking at some decent gains, especially in milan where 1.5%.hrysler, a gain of 111 seeing gains of overe. cac also being held by automakers, up .9%. don't short the yuan. that is the warning from china, even as bearish sentiment grows among the u.s. china trade war. to the brink of the critical seven per dollar level even before the clawed back some losses. bloomberg spoke to the ceo of huawei. accused of espionage and blacklisted by washington. but they told bloomberg a tit-for-tat would not negotiate with president trump. >> the u.s. has never bought products from us. even if the u.s. wants to buy products from the future, i will not sell to them. there is no need for negotiation. i will ignore trump. then who can he negotiate with? if he called me i would not answer, but he does not even have my number. 's tweets are laughable because they are self-contradictory. >> critics of huawei would say you got where you are through intellectual theft and government support. what is your response to that? the u.s. has not developed that technology, so where should i steal it? ? it is more like

a large number of gains.e national failure to deliver brexit. i think it has led to a situation where people are really fed up with the deadlock in government. nothing being done about the future of the health service and social care under funded schools, knife crime and homelessness, these have all been neglected and we want to deal with it. whether —— we want to stop brexit and we want a people's vote. his supporters say the local campaign did also make a difference. we knocked on doors, people are very angry about the situation but not necessarily directing that a liberal democrats. and six has always been seen as a bellwether. i think the politicians from the two old parties will be looking with some trepidation at what's happened here in chelmsford, what's happened across the east of england. 0vernight, there were emotional scenes as the votes were counted. the conservatives lost 31 counsellors dawn mack —— councillors here. the local was very upset. of course. . . here. the local was very upset. of cour

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it managed to pose gains. -- post gains.u: we did get a surge in the supply but we saw a decline in gasoline. let's look at the five-day charts for oil. you can see how oil has been on a pretty wild ride. this is the big picture. the fact that you do have oil fighting against this bearish data, seen as a positive for the commodity. let's talk more on the markets. joining us now is frank. great to have you with us. we saw some optimism over trade during the session, after the session closed we kept getting headlines on huawei. we have it that president trump is expected to sign an executive order that limits the chinese telecom field in the u.s.. news storieseline enough to impact the rally that we soldier in the u.s.? is the china trade deal enough to host the market -- and boost the market? frank: we have been saying for some time that trade has really become a soap opera. it is ongoing, it never ends. we have had a change as tariffs have been threatened. it depends on the size of the deal. will there be something behind it

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smaller parties make big gains. in germany expect of us. in france, the far—right national rally, led by marine le pen, came just ahead of the en marche party of president emmanuel macron.

we are now seeing the bloomberg dollar index gaining ground, .1% .e are seeing the euro unchanged at the moment, under a little bit of pressure after that early strength that we saw after the eu elections. when we saw mainstream parties holding their ground against populace. at the same time, nc establishment parties performing well in italy and france. that is not leading to some downside pressure on the euro. when it comes to brent prices, at the moment, rebounding. a strong rebound after it's saw its worst week of the year last week. we are seeing some supply concerns over iran through libya. really helping those oil prices at the moment. let's see how we are setting up for the markets in asia. sophie: asian stocks are set to continue the lackluster tone after managing to eke out a modest second day of gains on monday. some tech news could drive sentiment. ipo,ba planing a major softbank sharpening its focus on ai. we have more buybacks in japan with tokyo electron joining the bandwagon. miners will be on the watch in australia. recently fueled by

smaller parties make big gains. in germany, the greens become the second largest party, the far—right comes fourth and the established parties do badly. translation: today's election results, the ones we have so far, are telling us that the middle, the democratic centre that is willing to compromise, is weakened through this election, in france, the far—right national rally led by marine le pen came just ahead of the en marche party of president emmanuel macron. in the uk, the brexit party wins most seats but pro—remain parties also make big gains. and in greece, the government fares so badly the prime minister calls a snap general election. welcome to bbc news. over the next hour, we will bring you right up to date with all that's happened in the european elections. a huge democratic exercise across 28 nations that has seen some fascinating trends and it tells us as much about attitudes towards the union as it does about what's going on in each of those countries. this is the projection, the large slice of loo is t

the lead bands also made substantial gains in devon. taking control of tea m gains in devon.y. they realised that in parliament it's a real mess at the moment because of that, it translated into a good result for us. translated into a good result for us. infinite, labour say they are bucking the national trend increasing their majority by one seat. this is a local election and lots of people about it on the merits of local issues and candidates. difficult night for conservatives in the city. they dropped to third place behind ukip and several wards. with the collective failure in the house of commons to deliver the result of that referendum and until it is a result, i think all local politicians and all councils across the country will struggle to deal with the issue. exeter also remains under labour control, it would have been surprised if it had not, but it did lose when it seeps into the green party. bringing forward fresh ideas and we can collaborate with other counsellors to bring forward the change people like to see. we heard on the door seat —— doorstep day in day out

populist parties are expected to make significant gains in this election let's take a look at what's at stake. they see the come not to break you up but to remake it divided by language. not being selected. united by popular people say that's it their breaks immediate did it stop us it can be. a common enemy is an example john kerry. they are europe's far right leaders and together they are appending decades of e.u. rules and norms laying siege from within. the man hoping to lead best pots work and populists it's a he's deputy prime minister macho salvini his hardline actually forced manifest to help transform his friend's party and to government material i know he wants to do the same across the continent by ending together ideological bedfellows promising to tear up the rules. of our objective is to finally be a force for government and changing your government to bring your blood new hope a dream. by the way of. his closest ally is marine le pen. the head of france's far right political dynasty she led him to campaign with her firebrand father nationalism runs in hard blood but no

they've gained 703 counsellors. if these results were replicated across the country, as a whole, the bbc projects the conservatives and labour would get 28% of the vote with the lid is on 19 other parties on 25 stop after a tough night, theresa may needed a bit of love. thank you. she didn't need this. why don't you resign?! "why don't you resign?" was the shout. we don't want you. "we don't want you" — it only takes one to spoil the mood. "0ut, out" — they meant him, not her. but bad results needed explaining. these were always going to be difficult elections for us, and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for labour too, and i think people were sending a very clear message, a simple message, to both main parties, to us and the labour party, just get on and deliver brexit. jeremy corbyn was trying to ignore the grey clouds today. labour did worse than many expected. maybe trying to appeal to brexiteers and remainers failed to please enough on either side. his verdict too —

tech also have gains on the s&p 500.e had energy up, oil gaining ground after we heard some drones had hit saudi arabia's main crude pipeline. the nasdaq gained more than .1% and treasury yields were higher in gooding commodities. alson and soybeans rebounding. president trump once the fed to help him out with the trade war. calling out to match whatever the pboc is doing. futures unchanged. we will see how we are setting up for asia. sophie: futures are pointing to gains but strategists see room for corrections. evaluations are attractive enough to buy. with poor report cards from nissan and hong kong, that could it is the last heavy day of the japanese earnings season when the biggest banks report after the close. we are waiting on samson's quarterly business report. this wednesday we will get results from tencent and alibaba which will offer a. check chinese -- a pulse on the chinese economy. ahead of all of that 10:00 hong kong time china will release monthly activators -- indicators that will show continued rebound

they will capitalize on that political gain iggy's that i mine the pants party more legitimacy oh so on a european level and as she called for a union of the european a far right now that's something that many on his say they don't see a likely happening because of the diverse opinions within the far right in europe but yesterday evening many look i am certain he will say through a spokesperson for the national of run. by that i was only 2223 you years old and he said that this opens the way for the formation of a powerful group in the us european parliament so we see that a national o'reilly really endeavored to implement all the changes they want to implement from within and no longer will try to destroy the european parliament has from without from outside of its ok and that is certainly a position that a material salvini and italy's interested in as well so we'll see those through no doubt working together in that area money or shows for now in paris thanks so very much thank you well as we've been reporting the german greens are looking at being the big winners from this electio

certainly if the greens manage to turn this into further election gains and gain power in the e.u.through commission seats or here in germany through participation in the government then everything will become greener but the leaders i hear talking are already stressing how important sustainability is how important it is to take c o 2 that will and she risks off the books for example. in frankfurt thank you. talking about business trump's been playing golf again with abi the american and japanese leaders could be closer to the 18th hole and signing in historic trade deal it be a strong signal to the rest of asia in easing the region's trade tensions with the u.s. . donald trump and prime minister shinzo are they like to play up their golfing friendship when the 2 allies meet as well as working on his swing on this 4 day state visit. trump is pushing our bay to cut the trade gap with the united states japan is america's key ally in asia but trump regularly complains about what he called the unbelievably large trade deficit. he is optimistic about better trade relations with japan. t

the rest gained. of the indian equities for some time, yesterday they came back in. we are seeing some contributions from domestic international investors. dollarelow the 70 to the mark. but it's going to be an interesting watch until thursday. rishaad: thanks very much for that. the anything we are also looking for is what the modi coalition will adhere with an economy which is riddled with some problems. say in heree, we but that is according to those exit polls. if this exit polls are to be trusted. yvonne: bloomberg economics says that growth in india likely slowed in the latest quarter but a graduate cover may be taking shape. let's cross to our economics economist from mumbai. tell us more about the trajectory here for growth after we get these election results. -- the march quarter gdp results will be out on may 31. and currently we are looking at 6.3owdown in gb growtdp growthf %. so, overall there is a very broad based slow down in gdp numbers that i'm currently seeing. and i think the number

certainly if the greens manage to turn this into further election gains and gain power in the e.u. through commission seats or here in germany through participation in the government then everything will become greener but the leaders i hear talking are already stressing how important sustainability is how important it is to take c o 2 valance sheet risks off the books for example. in frankfurt thank you. talking about business trump's been playing golf again with abi the american and japanese leaders could be closer to the 18th hole and signing it historic trade deal it be a strong signal to the rest of asia in easing the region's trade tensions with the u.s. . donald trump and prime minister shinzo are they like to play up their golfing friendship when the 2 allies meet as well as working on his swing on this 4 day state visit. trump is pushing abbay to cut the trade gap with the united states japan is america's key ally in asia but trump regularly complains about what he called the unbelievably large trade deficit. he is optimistic about better trade relations with japan. trade

erasing 2019 gains.s watching closely, the head of global macro strategy for state suisse global markets. great to have you with us. how difficult is it in this environment not to like the u.s. or u.s. assets? >> it is very difficult. the u.s. story is a good relative economic story. at the same time, u.s. assets offer an attractive yield globally. , you stayy near term in the u.s.. that does not mean even though we are in the middle of a ro -- rout there are not options in emerging markets as well. shery: i wonder how you would rate china. we see on the bloomberg that foreigners are just running away from the chinese mainland markets. the pbocsider policymakers could come in with more stimulus measures, it would then count as an opportunity for you. >> you have hit on a key opportunity -- emerging markets are trailing with the ebb and flow with trade news. we thought the news was going to get better and we had the shop where it might not. know, the things we do they have a lot of leverage to stimulate t

with big tech leading gains, we're also seeing futures. romaine: i'm taking a look at hilton worldwide. shares up about 6.5% today on the back of an earnings report that was kind of mixed. revenue per available room actually only rose about 1.8%. they recorded a lot of soft demand from corporate clients as well as international travelers, so why did shares rally at a record high closing today? and a lot of it has to do with licensing these, managing fees and credit card fees. we saw a lot of strength and remember, hilton has been trying to move to an asset light model -- i it is more reliant on am in models it owns and more mayan on models where it licenses out its name and collects on fees. scarlet: thank you so much and he wrapped up just in time because we have earnings from qualcomm. the encoder adjusted eps 77 since a share. oflysts were looking for eps $.71. adjusted revenue for the quarter, 4.88 billion dollars, beating the highest analyst estimate. on average, analysts were looking for $4.8 billion and we are looking at qualcomm sh

smaller parties make big gains. in germany, the greens become the second largest party, the far—right comes fourth and the established parties do badly. translation: we haven't been dynamic. we have to concede that during our time in government we have not given the decisive answers that the people in germany expect of us. in france, the far—right national rally, led by marine le pen, came just ahead of the en marche party of president emmanuel macron. in the uk, the brexit party wins most seats but pro—remain parties also make big gains. us president donald trump keeps up pressure onjapan to cut its trade surplus with america, as he meets with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. a warm welcome to the programme, our special edition of the briefing reflecting the results of the elections to the european parliament. quite a mixed bag for you too. and you can be part of the conversation, what do you make of the results of these elections? what do you think is the most striking aspect? tell us what you think, just use #

a slight gain on the nikkei. also worth watching indian stocks ahead of the outcome of the election, up by 0.4%. the asx 200 is one to watch as well. it has been 11 year highs. atll holding on on the close 6505 points. above that level. let's have a look at stocks because it is about these -- the digital technology is under surveillance following -- the trump administration to curtail this giant. the videogame maker has fallen more substantially than that, but off 6% in the afternoon session. you are seeing money go into the non-semiconductor. yesterday talking about these rare earth suppliers on the fact they could be the next weapon in the u.s.-china trade dispute, in sydney, up by another 6%, now above the target price. a lot of analysts saying it is perhaps fording that bid on the back of a trade war. we know there are no winners, but this stock certainly benefiting. let's turn to brexit. bloomberg has learned theresa may is facing pressure to abandon her brexit deal and quit as british prime minister within

but we do see gains in oil this morning.rude are coming back a little bit, but still around the $70 and $60 level. let's get the bloomberg first word news. >> thanks, matt. can is expecting -- pimco is expecting more volatility. top executives presented their bearish outlook. they urged investors to be on the defensive, while being selective when it comes to regions and sectors. by far the area most -- of most concern is the credit markets. we are moving toward more tumultuous markets and making sure we have a game plan. olivia: there are plenty of reasons for investors to feel anxious at the moment. that is an according to the morgan stanley ceo james gorman. he says financial markets are theile and told us that inversion of the u.s. treasury yield curve was worrying. >> it is concerning. 10-years in the germany did. it shows how anxious the markets are and there is more news to be anxious about than there is to be positive about. olivia: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has failed to form a government. instead, he

the greens increased their support, gaining 12%.n the brexit process, it was the brexit party. and they were the clear winners of the night, taking almost a third of the vote and 2p meps. the party‘s leader saying that this could be just the start. our primary goal is to get this country to be independent and self—governing. if that doesn‘t happen, and if we don‘t leave, on 31st october, then what you will see is the brexit party stunning everybody of the next general election. it wasn‘tjust a good night for the brexit party. at the other end of the spectrum, those standing on a clear remain platform, including the lib dems and the greens, also made great lea ps forward. it's the first time in 100 years that we've beaten both the conservatives and the labour party in the same election and we are clearly able to demonstrate that both the conservative and labour party did badly because they were absolutely split, couldn't articulate what they wanted on brexit. we've been very clear we are the strongest remain party the one thing that

gains across the board, 59 point gain on the dow futures, read across the board in the markets on thursdaythe market finishing down but of obsession lows. energy the drag of the day. in europe we have gains in england, france and germany, the cac quarante up 2/10 of 1%. the nikkei and shanghai closed for the holidays, the hang saying gaining by 3 quarters of 1%. huber's legal problems, taxidriver suing the rideshare giant ahead of its big ipo. new coke, the beverage maker out with a line of sodas to mix with booze to bring a kick to your drink. the patriots cornerback showing off skills at one hollywood star's home. top story this half-hour, the russia investigation, george papadopoulos was approached by a us intel agent during the 2016 election cycle according to a new report in the new york times, papadopoulos commenting on the encounter with tucker carlson last night. >> very suggestive, younger, very flirtatious and i right away understood this wasn't a regular assistance, she barely spoke english, was very flirty and was trying to do two things, one, to extract information about my pr

greens making gains across the bloc. u.s. president donald trump spent his 2nd day in tokyo golfing with japanese prime minister shinzo abbey and watching similar wrestling the spite the friendly atmosphere there are tough talks ahead on trade and on differences over the threat posed by north korea. that has been fresh fighting owed say the disputed yemeni city of ties militias allied to the internationally recognized government fired on positions held by hutu rebels pro-government forces claim they are advancing but say at least 10 of their fighters have been killed in recent days. thousands of kurdish prisoners in turkey have ended a mass hunger strike they were protesting prison conditions for the kurdish leader abdul. supporters celebrated the end of the strike the government lifted a ban on lawyers visiting a vigil and who is serving a life sentence. well the votes are in and the ballots are being counted more than 400000000 people in 28 countries were eligible to vote in the biggest democratic exercise in the western wo

recent polls show nationalist and populist parties are likely to make major gains in european parliament elections begin this coming thursday also coming up. austria's president calls apple actions after a corruption scandal forces the resignation of the country's far right vice chancellor. and the winner of this year's your version song contest received a warm welcome back home in the netherlands. duncan lawrence is the 1st judgment to win the competition in nearly 4 decades. later thanks for joining us tens of thousands of people have been rallying across europe ahead of the upcoming european parliament elections they're protesting against nationalist and far right parties and showing their support for a stronger you recent polls show anti e.u. parties are likely to do well in the elections which kick off thursday in britain. a show of love for the european union. tough love. in cities across europe tens of thousands join pro e.u. an anti nationalist rallies like hearing. germany urging people to not vote for nationalists but also urging europe to do much better many protesters worry t

bath, chelmsford, both gained from the conservatives.what happened in chelmsford, the conservatives had a majority of 47 councillors here, look, the lib dems took it with a majority of five, and ifi took it with a majority of five, and if i show you the sea to change compared to last time, the conservatives lost 31 seats, the lib dems picking up 26, so a cracking result for the lib dems in chelmsford. the conservatives also lost ground in heartlands like folkestone and howth, that was conservative, it is now in no overall control, smaller parties making advances there. better news for the conservatives in north east lincolnshire, they took that council that was previously hung. ashfield, in pink, that means the independents have won this council. it was in no overall control before, but labour in fact were very strong in ashfield, the independents have taken that. let's look now at labour's performance, some real disappointments during this election. darlington has always been labour until now. labour has lost darlington, a real heartlan

become a big hitter in the european parliament women and the liberal ouda group also made significant gains their candidate might be to have a style year now has designed on the coming european commission president comes from living in europe thank you that monopoly of power is broken. and this is of course why we can do something else and i very much appreciate it was my colleague trying to more than just set that a coalition can be built of those who wants to do something. yellow vests protesters in brussels on sunday they see the e.u. is undemocratic everybody wants to change europe the fight over which way will be played out in the parliament and on the streets. ok now as the results come in from the 20 member countries of the the trends are now getting clear here are the projections for seats in the next european parliament let's look at that surge for starters for the greens to look likely to take 69 seats in new parliament the liberal all the group will be taking 102 seats despite its heavy losses the center right european peoples party that's still the biggest group 167 seats and if

nice gains on wall street this friday morning, dow gaining 81, nasdaq up 41 points, all three major averages, however, on pace for a weekly loss as the busiest week for earnings season wraps up. a drop in oil prices yesterday weighing on the marchs gets. oil still down this morning at $61.41 a barrel. let's the take a look at european equity, hsbc reporting earnings as they watch the brexit situation. the ftse is up 47, the dax is also up 47 points. japan a and china markets still closed for a holiday. mixed performance, hong kong gaining half of 1%, south cree a down three quarters of 1%. cheryl: good morning, cheryl casone. lauren: i'm lauren simonetti. thank you for joining us. cheryl: naive, that is what president trump is calling former vice president joe biden over his comments that china is, quote, not competition. the president slamming the 2020 presidential hopeful in an interview with fox news' katherine hair yaage last night. >> china is a big problem. we're losing $500 billion a year to china. there's a great hostility. there's a great -- china is a big problem. cheryl: after bid

parties are expected to gain. austria as president has called for new elections in early september president aleksander found a bell and made the declaration after a corruption scandal brought down the coalition government of conservatives and the far right freedom party in elsewhen follow the release of video footage taken in 2017 showing the vice-chancellor heights questioned apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a woman posing as a russian oligarchs nice in exchange for her backing his party's election campaign that year. austrians will be voting for a new parliament but voters will have to wait until at least september transfer sébastien courts and president alexander fundable agreed to the general election roadmap during talks on sunday on the bill and said austria's reputation has been damaged by the actions of the country's now resigned vice chancellor. the president said the government needs to regain the public's trust. it's more i just get found we need to take all necessary steps to repa

the big standout gaining nearly 5% in april alone. eight of the 11 sectors in the s&p 500 finishing the month in the green led by financials of all sectors. technology and communication services coming in second and third place. health care with the big laggard still, and quickly checking on the commodity complex, gold lost some of the ground last month. you can see down by 1% while wti crude oil gained more than 6% in april. the question now, with the s&p 50000 sitting at record highs, should you live by that old wall street saying sell in may and go away let's bring in john, chief investment strategist at oppenheimer asset management, and, john, this is the time of year where we always bring this up for better or worse because it's there as a cliche for a reason. there is risk related to that. on the other side of it is the fundamentals are radio remarkably good overall if you look at the economic data for the u.s. the negative poebt that might come across is offset by a significantly positive point progress is being made related to

smile this morning, gains toa the biggest smile this morning, gains to a smaller local level for theof weeks which will involve the whole of the uk. no local elections in scotland or wales and patches in england where there were none either, but in a couple of weeks' time there will be at polling stations at the end of every street because the government has not delivered on its promise of delivering brexit so there is a european parliament elections will in all likelihood take place. if the local elections have featured brexit pretty prominently, you can only begin to imagine how significant the brexit question will be in those european parliament elections. with the full range of perspectives being reflected in the different political parties are standing, not least the likes of the brexit party and chains uk, not prominent players in the local elections, —— and change uk, not prominent players locally but will be more prominent in the european elections. the results are still coming in, full coverage on the bbc news channel. more than a million people have been evacuated from thei

by now oculus could make big gains as beleaguered prime minister theresa makes struggles to hold on to her job while. i'm still gail welcome to the program the party of india prime minister narendra modi has declared victory in the country's election and the results released by the election commission show the be j.p. on course to increase its majority in parliament with a mandate of business friendly policies and a tough stand on national security mr modi received a rousing welcome from b j p supporters as are valley in delhi after promising that he would unite the country and build what he called a strong and inclusive india the leader of the opposition congress party behold gandhi has conceded defeat saying that he respected the decision of the indian people. i want to dump you correspondent and then we should just falling i speak out amongst the jubilant b j p supporters. so this is the head. of the ruling. party is the key think of this. catch a glimpse of a new prime minister somebody from this new team to this election might even consider the definition i'm going to be in to mov

the s&p 500 gaining a quarter percent. health care and real estate are gaining ground. this of course coming at a time when sentiment is pretty fragile. suffice it to say, markets took a big hit when we had those reports that china is planning to retaliate if the u.s. goes ahead and hikes tariffs on friday. the dow gaining .4%. the nasdaq up a percent. we have seen oil, up in the middle of these trade tensions, took a hit. for today's session, for the last three days, down .4%. today, gaining ground as we saw that surprise drop in u.s. supplies, despite the fact that we are getting some tensions around iran saying that they will scale back on their pledges under the 2015 nuclear deal, saying they will go ahead and enrich more uranium that was agreed to. amanda: more risk and possibly more volatility. one interesting look at the part of the market that has not participated in the volatility is the debt work at. you can see even as the s&p 500 has sunk, total returns, blue, high grade and corporate bonds are holding steady on their returns. that is coming as there seems t

women gained the right to vote. finally. and it states the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the u.s. or any state on account of sex. this time period from 1880 to 1920 is called the women's era. but in race relations, it is the lowest point in race relations because of the lynchings, because of the riots and the oppression and discrimination. but black women soldiered on, registering to vote in record numbers in 1920. for example, in florida in 1920, was the beginning of the record number of women registered to vote, they outnumbered, per the rate of women registered, their white female counterparts, but the backlash was immediate. and i want to just follow up with this letter before i close, in this letter, it is a letter written in december, 1920 two the naacp, dear sir, i am writing to inform you of a case of intimidation that happened to me. i live in river junction registered in the ninth precinct but was asked to leave before it was time to vote. and this was happening t

that's a is 63% gain the shares are adding to those gains in the early trade >> st. claire broadcast group striking a deal with disney to into sports networks that deal with value at more than $10 billion. brian, back to you >> frank holland, see you in a bit. thank you. >> let's get you up to speed on how your markets and money are looking on this friday morning, and we do have some green on the screen dow futures are up right now about 60 points. the s&p and nasdaq hire as well. the way that amazon news that frank just gave you has that stock up 2%. that could be a big help amazon is a hugely weighted stock in so many etfs that you may own. meantime, the bontd market not on the big move right now. the yield is at 2.56%. of course, all that futures bonds, everything, can change when that jobs number coming out later on today the european markets, we are seeing gains across the board. europe really showing some signs of rife lately look at that all five of the major indexes that we watch in germany, france, and all those other countries, they are higher outside of eq

on a gain. the biggest spike in the index in the year. that typically means that is the capitulation investors are waiting for. the drops may be done and the s&p, judged by this index, maybe ready for a rise. anna: [applause] -- [laughter] matt, the chart is great and hillary, who provide these charts, says it is great. on the other hand, i'm not a fan of technical analysis. i also don't like to reward overconfidence. i'm going with anne-marie on this one -- annmarie on thi one. annmarie: stay humble, max. -- matt. anna: thank you for playing. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: disappointing data, china's economy loses steam in april for the latest tariff talks dark the outlook. to echo whathe fed the pboc is doing, claiming the u.s. would win if they did. the german economy returns to growth despite a slump in manufacturing. but italy says it may breach oosts to boost of jobs -- b jobs. ♪ welcome to "bloomberg: surveillance." i am francine lacqua in london.