Points. Brent really rolling over by about 5 , much worse than wti. It is now a pure demand issue. You see equities taking it on the chin, as well as commodities. Time for todays top market moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin in the u. S. Come over Senate Democrats blocked Mitch Mcconnells attempt to advance the coronavirus economic rescue package. Minneapolis fed president neel bloomberg the fed can do more to support the economy. We are being more aggressive. Is there more we can do . Yes. Is there more we may end up doing . Yes, but i feel we are being very aggressive. Alix joining me for more is Michael Mckee. Walk us through what he said, what more they can do, and what is going on in d. C. Michael jim bullard is the one who really scared the markets by saying a 30 Unemployment Rate and perhaps a 50 annualized decline in gdp during the Second Quarter. Morgan stanleys is the closest to that 30 , so he thinks things can be much worse. They still say the f
To back the bell and set to publish their own support program. Force johnson orders the u. K. Into a three weeks lockdown, sweeping new laws to breakup gatherings and fine any dissenters. Taylor meantime, i want to bring you some breaking news coming out of china. Their companies are having the worst quarter on record, according to china. The headline as it catches my eye, the economy has not gotten better as much as we thought they would be returning to work. It looks for the first three months of this year, a Quarterly Survey of all the firms, it looks like every individual sector was reporting worse results than originally thought. Saleswas a widespread in amid the harder hit retail sectors. The collapse in revenue and profit. Again, Economic Activity collapsed in february. This is as we knew that there was the massive virus spread that was going on. I think the key headline is Chinese Companies continuing to have the worst quarter on record. Every individual sector reporting worst
Week for the nasdaq. That is the first time youll see stocks down for the major averages in three weeks. This morning, we are still near alltime highs for both the s p 500 and the nasdaq looking at the treasury market, right now, 10year at 1. 486 some additional pressure concerns about Global Growth and what it will mean for the economy. S p was out saying for the year, you could see chinese growth at 4. 4 for the full year that concern if they see a peak to the virus in march. All these new highs and goldman talking potential correction i can see how the case could be made right now is there anything more than a possible Global Pandemic i think about it it is hard to buy any stock that wouldnt be impacted by a bad outcome in this. Right people assume it will be a vshaped recovery and that it will happen sooner rather than later. With coronavirus. After it going away. But we dont know if it goes away and we still dont know what kind of numbers we are getting. It appears it is slowing a
Moving news from all around the world from frankfurt, to london, taiwan, our bloomberg two iowa, our bloomberg voices are on the ground. Commodities leading the charge for the quarter. Here for more is bloombergs sonali basak. Income net interest coming in above analyst expectations is a great thing for bank of america because it shows the bank is doing what a bank should do. That is loan growing, deposits growing. Investment banking mergers and acquisition fell short than expectations, but we are seeing that across the board. We want to see confidence among corporate clients now that we know consumers are holding steady. Alix what were some of the worries through the quarter . Sonali the expenses were up, but bank of america was a costcutting story. Something we are hearing from all of the banks is the propensity to keep investing because the cycle is getting competitive at this moment. Alix thank you very much. Now i want to go to the latest on trade. President trump is ready to sign
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