{"id":75747,"date":"2018-05-02T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/what-you-need-to-know-before-the-open-37\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:24:05","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-before-the-open-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/what-you-need-to-know-before-the-open-37\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know before the open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/assets\/uploads\/main-image\/home_stream\/before-the-open-v1-56e923273e9ef-56e9232d48483.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#039;s top story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/285050\/government-backs-down-amendment-sanctions-and-money\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Government backs down on amendment to Sanctions and Money Laundering bill to make offshore tax havens more transparent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#039;s leader: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/285074\/secrecy-clampdown-britains-overseas-territories-welcome-and\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The secrecy clampdown on Britain&#039;s overseas territories is welcome \u2013 and overdue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple surprised analysts after the bell as it reported strong iPhone sales, promising $100bn in additional stock buybacks. <\/p>\n<p>Standard Chartered also posted good first quarter results, as pre-tax profits rose 20 per cent to $1.26bn. <\/p>\n<p>Oil prices firmed up fuelled by concerns that the US may re-impose sanctions on major importer Iran. <\/p>\n<p>The FTSE is expected to open 0.33 per cent higher at 7,546, while Germany&#039;s Dax is down 0.19 per cent to 12589, as France&#039;s Cac also slipped down 0.32 per cent to 5503, according to IG.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Asia eased while the dollar traded at a near four-year high as investors wait on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/company\/federal-reserve\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Reserve<\/a>&#039;s upcoming policy statement later today.<\/p>\n<p>MSCI&#039;s index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.2 per cent, as Japan&#039;s Nikkei saw a 0.2 per cent dip. <\/p>\n<h2>Corporate news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sainsbury&#039;s <\/strong>\u2013 the supermarket chain releases its preliminary results on the back of its mega-merger with Asda<\/li>\n<li><strong>Direct Line <\/strong>\u2013  will announce its first quarter results<\/li>\n<li><strong>Next <\/strong>\u2013 retailer will release a trading announcement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unilever <\/strong>\u2013 is holding its AGM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Data<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>9.00 \u2013 Eurozone Markit manufacturing PMI<\/li>\n<li>9.30 \u2013 UK PMI Construction (April) <\/li>\n<li>10.00 \u2013 Eurozone GDP YoY and QoQ (quarter one)<\/li>\n<li>19.00 \u2013 US Federal monetary policy statement and interest rate decision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#039;s top story: Government backs down on amendment t..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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