{"id":86666,"date":"2018-07-19T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/what-you-need-to-know-before-the-open-66\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:44:31","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-before-the-open-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/what-you-need-to-know-before-the-open-66\/","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\/289327\/exclusive-eu27-negotiators-and-meps-mulling-extension\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Article 50 deadline extension discussed in Brussels amid cliff-edge fears<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#039;s leader: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/289327\/exclusive-eu27-negotiators-and-meps-mulling-extension\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels fines Google as the war continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US stocks were boosted last night by solid earnings figures and an optimistic take on the US economy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/company\/federal-reserve\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Reserve<\/a> chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/people\/jerome-powell\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jerome Powell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P closed at a five month high while the Dow ended with a fifth positive close in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Asian shares were boosted today by US corporate earnings and investor confidence with MSCI&#039;s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rising 0.32 per cent, while Japan&#039;s Nikkei advanced 0.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>However, currencies suffered as continued trade war worries hit confidence \u2013 China&#039;s yuan hit its lowest level against the dollar since July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The pound, similarly, has been under pressure in recent days, hitting a 10-month low, of $1.3068 on Wednesday ahead of key UK retail sales data this morning.<\/p>\n<p>London Capital Group predicts the FTSE will open up two points on 7,678, Germanys Dax will open down 14 points on 12,751 and Frances Cac will open nine points lower at 5,438.<\/p>\n<h2>\u200bCorporate news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sports Direct<\/strong>\u2013 has its final results today.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unilever<\/strong>\u2013 is announcing its interim financial results this morning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mothercare <\/strong>\u2013 is announcing a trading update this morning ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) today.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Royal Mail <\/strong>\u2013 has its AGM today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Data<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>09.30<\/strong> \u2013 UK retail sales.<\/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: Article 50 deadline extension discus..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86666","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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