Billion. That is the rumor promising 850 billion. That is the rumor from secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin. Crude also recovering. We still have a two handle, all after the vix hit a record monday. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to brussels, washington, and berlin, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Futures trimming early gains this morning, then rallying. Here was more in new york is bloombergs annmarie hordern. Walk us through some of the action so far. Annmarie as you said, we hit limit up on those futures. We then went lower into negative territory, but now back in positive territory. It does look like the bears are in control of this market. The biggest plunge on markets since 1987. In europe, similar story. We were seeing a lot of gains, then went negative. Right now on the stoxx 600, we are about flat. We are seeing some Massive Gains on the lose
Equities not totally convinced. They were higher, then rolled over. Part of that is the u. S. U. S. Futures were a little higher three hours ago. Now weve rolled over yet again. Intocalvasina sees a dip 1700 possible for the s p. Part of the reason we are seeing this is a spike in the dollar index. Causing a lot of pain across the board, whether in the commodity market, emerging markets, europe. The eurodollar having an unbelievable slide. The cable rate at its lowest level at one point since 1988. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From brussels to london to lawson can to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. The ecb announced it would do whatever it takes and an emergency Bond Buying Program. Joining us is maria tadeo. Walk us through what we know about the program. Maria first of all, it was unexpected. It took a lot of people by surprise. You have to take a look at the amount
Erasing that bounce on the ism manufacturing 0. 25 for the s p 500. Twitter is better on the les stake. Colgatepalmolive doing pretty well. Surprised, but we got down as far as 1. 02 . We see that the twostens curve is at 28 basis points, wider than recently, because the front end of the curve is moving even more than the 10 year. We are seeing a little bounce for oil as well, but it is telling that even with the 2. 5 bounce, we are just below 46 a barrel. Guy here in europe, the german twoyear currently trading at 83. Another six basis points to the good. The bid at the front end, as you mentioned, absolutely being maintained at the moment. The bond market continuing to send scary signals about the appetite for risk. The dollar continues to suffer as well at the hands of the euro , now trading 1. 1132. The story last week was that this is the short story being removed, that this is the carry trade being removed. The market with the volatility we are seeing at the moment does not want
Out from under it. It is time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We are going to focus heavily on the markets. We begin in the u. S. , where the 10 year yield fell more than 1 this year. Here was more is annmarie hordern. Annmarie we are seeing a massive flight to safety. I can show you some of these numbers. Gold trading just under 1700 an ounce. This is the asset to own and this kind of market. Then you have the swiss franc. Deutsche bank said in the recent note we could see parity. We havent seen that since the s p lifted the cap the snb lifted the cap. B 30 year yield went through 1. 5 . Right now, 1. 39 . Three standard deviations. Thats how much we moved to the downside. We have not seen this since 2011. People on wall street say this might be a recession. Alix thank you very much. All of that leading to massive volatility within the equity m
Policy correspondent. This is more than the fed might have done. Michael last time i remember a 50 basis point cut was 2001 no, 2008. , the initial cut the last time no, 2008,rise the initial cut. The last time we had a surprise rate cut was 2001. When they do it before the markets open, heres the money quote. Coronavirusout the posing evolving risk to economic activity, and say in light of these risks and in support of achieving its maximum employment and price stability goals, the committee decided today to lower the target rates for the federal funds rate by one half 1. 25 . Age point to a major move by the fed today to put a floor under markets and maybe try to get ahead of any damage out there, although, as a lot of people will tell you, it isnt clear that the fed is going to be able to really do a lot with this except help the markets. The statement goes on to say the committee is closely monitoring developments and their implications for the economic outlook, and will use their