They have agreed to a loan of 5. 5 billion from the Treasury Department you may remember they initially had an agreement on 4. 7 billion to be borrowed they have up sized it to 5. 5 billion. They have to take a draw of at least 10 . Theyve drawn down 550 million today. What does the Treasury Department get for this . 10 of American Airlines if american borrows about 9 billion, the Treasury Department will get americ 900 million if youre keeping score, american is now sitting on more than 42 billion in debt the stocking is moving higher in the after hours session it remains to be seen if they will need to borrow but the fact that they have said we may need to borrow another 2 billion in addition to that 5. 5 billion, its clear they realize theyre in for a rough six months here you will not see a big increase in passengers. That means its going to be tougher to get back to break even. A crazy low price target on this, it was 1 or 2 price target on american it is known as the weakest Bala
The outage cast further doubt on tokyos hopes of replacing hong kong as the equities leader in asia. Japans lost generation. We open a business week report on the people shut out of the employment market in their continuing to search for directions in middleage. Haidi lets take a look at how things are setting up in this fridays session. Of course, a whipsaw week when it comes to u. S. Markets. A lot of travel when it comes to asia. Tokyo to resume trading today. Sophie that is the case. That would be the focus on a case that has several markets closed for the midautumn festival. Japan very much and focus after the start of the fiscal second half was marred by nikkei futures in chicago edging slightly lower ahead of that potential session. The closing prices for wednesday will be the opening prices for thursday. Arkets are also watching for third extra budget in japan. We have jobless numbers for japan along with Australian Retail sales. Above 675, this after it edged towards 673 overn
Development on a tiktok takeover Julia Boorstin has the latest. Sources confirming to me that bytedance is continuing to explore options with the committee on Foreign Investment in the u. S. About a restructuring of the company that would avoid a full sale of those u. S. Operations. Now, my sources tell me that long before President Trump set a deadline for tiktok to agree to sale of its u. S. Operations or have the threat of being shut down, bytedance was negotiating about various options. One option being discussed is a restrucking in which bytedance would maintain ownership stake but wouldnt have any control over u. S. Operations one u. S. Company could take a Minority Stake and be an operating partner, say, have microsoft or oracle be tiktoks cloud operator and manage the u. S. Data in a way that u. S. Regulators could feel comfortable with everything im hearing is still very much fluid and my sources say it is unclear what the president will approve certainly an area to watch soun
In spain, new infections slowed slightly but officials are worried about a second wave of covid19, now that the country has emerged from a strict lockdown. In portland, oregon, another night of violent protests. Targeted a u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, spray painting the building, breaking windows, and shining laser lights on agents. Authorities declared it a ride and used tear gas to break up the crowd. Violence is ripped the city for three months since george floyd died in Police Custody in minneapolis. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following from around the world. A stumbling block for the u. S. Labor market as applications for Unemployment Benefits inc
Tensions. You really have more of the same. Tech outperforms. One jobless claims around million. Rates grinding ever lower. Still fears surrounding the coronavirus. It feels as though this market just has a complete disregard for warnings coming from the fed, warnings from u. S. China relations . And rates refuse to go up tech outperforms. You can have a situation where value outperforms. We saw that briefly in june. Or you could have a market that actually goes down. That does not seem to have. Instead, we go back into this one very specific group of mediocre growth. Caroline at the beginning of trade, we were a bit worried. We saw the reading on the philly fed. The ceos being asked the key question of caution. Ofare looking at a blue line what is current outlook. In six months, may be a little bit of an improvement. It looked pretty dire. It was a mess. Bloomberge had the Consumer Comfort Index data came out. One of the folks that works behind the scenes here, dan curtis, pointed thi