Lagarde,at, christine madame gore gave a of the International Monetary fund, and your conversation with Andrew Bailey. Francine if you distill what we are trying to do, there are three main questions what kind of recovery and recession will be get, the inflationary versus deflationary debate, and the economic scarring. We will try to do that with the bank of england and the imf, touching on what countries may need support in the future. Christine lagarde also extremely interesting because it will be the first time we hear from her since the German Court Decision so we will hear from her about the legality or not about what they did. Tom the complexities of this German Court Decision, George Saravelos out with a blistering note, wondering even if the ecb will respond to the german court. We respond to our first word news. U. S. And china trade negotiators will speak as soon as next week to try to make progress in implementing a phase one deal, President Trump threatening to terminate th
Today, francine. After the three day weekend here in the united states, what i really suggest is the testing of how we get back to normal. The markets decided with futures higher. Francine we will have plenty more on the market shortly, but now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news from new york city. Ritika good morning, in france hasn hong kong, carrie lam defended the sweeping new security laws. She says it is untrue that the legislation would ban street protests. She promised Hong Kong Freedom would be preserved. Prodemocracy groups are planning another major rally tomorrow. President trump is vowing to move the Republican Convention out of North Carolina unless crowds are allowed. Statesa shot at the democratic governor, roy cooper. The president says he wants to be assured that republicans can gather in charlotte in august, whether there are coronavirus outbreaks or not. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing another day of pressure to discipline his top adviser.
Signaling that it may need to do more to the boe, signaling that it may need to do more to combat lower growth. Bloombergs Francine Lacqua spoke to andrew bailey, the bank of england governor, following that policy decision. Gov. Bailey we are keeping options open on that. Im very clear on that. Other members of the committee thought it was a sensible decision to take in our next meeting, when we may have more information. Francine are we any closer to negative rates, or is that not an option right now . Gov. Bailey we are not ruling anything out because it would be unwise of us to rule anything out in terms of responses. I dont want to say we are nearer to negative rates, but we are not ruling anything out. Francine under what circumstances will we get negative rates . Gov. Bailey its a complicated question. You have to view it in the context of the times, also in the context of the financial structure we have, and what are the consequences of it. I just want to caution, we are nowher
This is not hitting the economy. The fact that you have Stocks Holding in tells you some traders believe that right now the civil unrest is unlikely to hit the corporate profit outlook we are always talking about. However, if there is an unfortunate effect from covid19 because of the proximity of protesters, that could be in uncertainty. The other Factor Holding stops around flat is the fact we have the financials that move into the cyclical sectors once again happening. The stayathome sector trades off. What is amazing is the 10 year yield had been down a little bit earlier, right now about flat. Investors are not worried about this fundamental picture we are seeing, the social unrest youre talking about. Lets see whether or not that changes. David pick up something you mentioned to me earlier. How much of this is a weakening dollar . Abigail all of this is the dollar. That is a mark of quantitative printinge money that jay powell spoke about not that when theo dollar makes risk asset
State of the economy plus the Airline Industry could be facing a grim future as the pen demick has created turbulence for sales we take a look at the performance of the sector with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And the United States economy declined by 4. 8 percent in the 1st quarter of 2020 according to data released by the u. S. Commerce Department Wednesday while contraction was expected a survey of economists by dow jones had estimated g. D. P. Would only fall by 3. 5 percent for the quarter Consumer Spending dropped by 7. 6 percent for the 1st quarter as not essential businesses across the nation have been closed due to the coronavirus pandemic now exports fell by 8. 7 percent and imports to the u. S. Withered up by 15. 3 percent now this was the 1st time u. S. G. D. P. Went negative since the 1st quarter of 2014 and the biggest drop since the last recession in the United States this Economic Contraction as the longest period of economic expansion in us has. And like