Caroline Hepker

Maria Corina Machado speaking there.

After Donald Trump previously said that he didn't believe she had support or respect in Venezuela and cleared the way for the existing vice president, Delce Rodriguez, to become acting president, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has said that the award cannot be shared or transferred.

China is clamping down on high-speed trading.

According to Bloomberg sources, commodities futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those who have told local brokers to remove servers dedicated to high-frequency traders that are located inside the exchanges' data centres.

There's also a preliminary plan to add two milliseconds of latency to any server that connects to future exchanges from third-party computer rooms.

Chinese shares tumbled on the news.

The clampdown will hit China's army of domestic high-frequency firms as well as global companies, including Citadel Securities, Jane Street Group and Jump Trading, who did not respond to a request for comment.

And those are some of our top stories for you this morning.

Looking at the market, stock futures this hour for Europe are actually down, even though we hit an all-time high yesterday for the US stock 600.

The stock's 50, down two-tenths.

US stock futures are higher, four-tenths up for the Nasdaq.

We have seen a sell-off in China after those high-frequency trading rules were reported by Bloomberg.

CSI 300 is down four-tenths of 1%.

MSCI Asia-Pacific, though, has hit another record, up three-tenths.

Gold this morning is down.

Brent crude futures actually reversing decline, $63.87, currently up by two-tenths of 1%.

Ten-year US Treasury yields, little change there at $4.16.

Those are the markets.

That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now.

I'm Caroline Hepker.