he replaces michael noonan.any expects the schedule for brexit negotiations to remain in place. a spokesperson says officials have no indication anything will change. theresa may is working to reach democratic the unionist party. cuba is starting an electoral process expected to end with raul castro stepping down. he is expected to remain ahead of the ruling communist party. global news 24 hours a day powered by 2700 journalists in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. we are joined by bloomberg's paul allen. good morning. >> we are seeing some weakness. often a sixth of 1%. we may see gold stock leading the decline. the unemployment rate expected to hold steady at 5.7%. that is notoriously unpredictable. one stock to watch is bhp. they will name a new chairman either today or tomorrow to replace jack nasser. other things to watch, the new zealand dollar will be in focus with first-quarter gdp out of new zealand. off will rise to 7/10 of 1% the back of the disappointing balance of payments. more from bloomberg techn

let's go back to the phones, michael is calling from noonan, georgia on the line for democrats.aller: thank you for taking my call. the reason i'm calling is you look at the background, the president was speaking in miami. all you saw was white people. i hate to sound racist. i am not. but if you go to cuba you see the black huber. -- cuba. in that picture you saw not one black cuban so for him to speak for the cuban situation, they call it what it is. i do not want to say it, i will let the people think about it. thank you for taking my call. guest: it is true, i think the cuban-american community here in florida and other places of the country are white but if you go to the island there is a significant population of afro cubans. that reflects in many ways history, socio-economic status of cubans throughout its history, including today in cuba. the afro cubans are not at the same level in terms of physicians and societies, socioeconomic conditions as weight cubans are. .hat we saw -- white cubans are it is reflected in the cuban-american community. host: we have a tweet asking

michael santoli. willford frost from london. we await prime minister theresa may. the must reads, do we have a lot of them. i picked peggy noonann the wall street journal what comey told us about trump, noonan, long time op-ed writer, speechwriter for reagan. the worst part of the testimony she says is when the president pressed mr. comey for his personal loyalty. presidents don't lean on fbi chiefs in this way. at odds with traditional boundaries, understandings and protocol. embarrassing to read, she says. it is how someone who learns about government by binge watching house of cards would play. it was bumptious, a colorful read, a good summation and not a takeaway. she sort of puts two questions out there. one on the legality, she said, as many people say this morning, no smoking gun on whether it is obstruction of justice, and the other point, i'm clear what it is going to mean for his supporters who may not have even watched the comey testimony. >> watched it and if you went to the supporters, it echoes what paul ryan said, he's new to this, naive, doesn't know the kind of niceties and protocols, uncouth in a lot of respec