Zero, in an attempt to save the u. S. Economy from coronavirus fallout. But the markets are not impressed. Yields fall off a cliff and futures trade limit down. An historic slump in east asia. The Economic Impact of the virus is laid bare by the latest data from china. Retail sales, fixed investment, and industrial al output all plunge. And europe widens its lockdown. Cases across the continent surge as the government shuts down the borders in europe. One aviation consultant says the new no travel norm threatens to bankrupt most airlines by may. We are getting headlines out now from Fiat Chrysler, saying it is going to halt its facility, shut down factories in syria, italy, and poland. They said those factories will probably close this month. We already had headlines from ferrari saying they would shut down production. And maseratiysler, will suspend all production in europe. This is in response to the spread of the coronavirus. It is important to keep social distancing when you are wo
Ease concern over coronavirus. 1 10 year yield falls below for the first time in over 150 years. Uncoordinated action. Other g7 Central Banks are yet to follow suit, though expectations for the central bank of canada, japan, and korea and furtherrowing to fall. Scott meinhardt said u. S. Equities could slump another 15 but a surprise come back for joe biden on super tuesday cease turn positive. Speaking of the biden news, we are getting a breaking headline on the bloomberg terminal that joe biden has won the Texas Democratic president ial primary, state that was expected to show strong support for Bernie Sanders, has gone instead for joe biden according to the associated press. Of super tuesday for joe biden. A contender who had almost been counted out after the initial caucuses, coming back in a big way after getting endorsements from Amy Klobuchar and pete buttigieg. Matt, lets go from the United States politics to Money Management in the u. K. Breaking news on the uks largest manage
We have an exclusive interview. In hong kong the government is again rejecting calls for universal suffrage for the chief executive here. This as anger bubbled back on the streets of hong kong. Shery australian markets have just opened to trade. Lets turn to sophie for a check of what she is watching. Sophie we are seeing stocks gaining ground,. 1 with the stock market looking overheated and valuations and records. The latest, investors buying into the aussie stock rally. Environmental risk around the earnings estimates. Futures looking mixed. It is opening slightly lower, this nikkei futures under pressure ahead of japanese industrial output we will get later this morning along with taiwanese export numbers and jobless figures from hong kong. We are seeing new york crude. 1 , asground over investors consider the potential impact from the auction health in libya and iraq. Said this is a policy delay disruption and there could be a quick turnaround if there is a political solution. Liby
Need and it is energy and tesla, paypal, square a lot to talk about. Your traders are not here. But i still know who they are. And the top story has been Energy Following the killing of the iran general on friday and the last couple sessions, the loss has been wiped out because the world is still awash andoff supplied in the price of oil. Weve been speaking to the biggest names about what is going on and why we did not see a bigger spike weve chatted with ceos of chevron, patterson gti, marathon oil, their first interview in more than five years and pioneer will be airing on Worldwide Exchange tomorrow. Lets talk about oil and gas as well speaking of chevron, that stock fell along with oil. Not just because crude oil fell, but because bank of america and Merrill Lynch downgrading to an underperform so guy, are you surprised at like the question we asked every ceo here that the price of oil has not spiked higher given what happened on friday enjoy yourself down there, thanks for invitin
Moving news from all around the world. Delhi, newg to new jersey and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground todays top stories. In asia, you had the pboc lowering the rate it charges on shorterterm loans to lenders. Index added 150 billion yuan into the banking system. Joining us is tom mackenzie. Is this the start of an easing cycle, or a shortterm term liquidity crunch into the new year . Tom it seems like more of a shortterm liquidity crunch. We are looking ahead to january, what it looks like you will get a withdrawal of cash out of the Financial System here of about 450 billion. They take that liquidity out ahead of the chinese new year, which comes in towards the end of january. It does seem like it is more of a seasonal effect. More broadly in the economy, credit has been tightening. We saw today from the pboc was some gradual measures to try and address this queasy liquidity, and a couple of basis points and a sevenday reverse repo as well. About 28ly, you got b