Could break 113 straight months of gains. Oil leads on both sides of the atlantic after President Trump says he has a key to resolving the standoff between saudi arabia and russia. Taylor i want to check on how the markets closed thursday. Todayseeing gains on trading session, reversing some of the losses we had previously. There is optimism. You had horrible initial jobless claims, 6 million which is double last weeks 3 million. Million the total to 10. The market is getting some certainty where they can start to quantify the magnitude and speed of the damage. The markets hate uncertainty. At least this data is starting to give us an indication of the economy. The market is using that as a point to rally off of. Within the futures market some of that is turning around. Futures markets have opened up in the last few minutes. We are talking a lot about oil in the introduction. We had an incredible tweet from the president which put oil up 22 and then today we opened up, erasing some of
Germany sees the economy shrinking at least 5 . This, as fears of a virus followup could last for years. We hit our we will hear from ceo bill winters this hour. Haidi lets look at trading when it comes to australia. Asia looking softer, potentially modest bump up after u. S. Stocks saw the first gain in three days of losses. In new zealand, trading is dataway, retail sales is a point we will be looking at later to give us an indication, not super forwardlooking, but at least how things stand in terms of the fed rate period, asia excluding japan looks like it has had a flat week so far. That is u. S. Future. Waitinghe bond market, for the ava bond purchase, the aussie yield curve steepening ahead of the government announcing option plans for the coming week. We could see a bump up in primary activity, looking at the threeyear yield to and the week below target after the central bank boosted liquidity and calmed down money markets. We are watching banking stocks after they cut fees, one
This is bloomberg. Vonnie thank you. We are back in a moment. Vonnie this is bloomberg markets. On vonnie quinn. Saysard chartered ceo singapore and hong kong could recover from the pandemic in the second half of the year. Francine lacqua spoke about what the western world could learn about controlling the virus. The bank of england took the view, understood the view that given the uncertainty around this crisis, uncertainty in terms of financing requirements, uncertainty around the losses that banks will take, its appropriate to be atraordinarily despite strong Liquidity Position and loan but today, regulators have taken the view that prudence should rule the day. I understand that. When can we get back to Something Like a more normal capital strategy . Role ofhave to see the banks helping the world recover from this tremendous shock, has largely flown through. We can all speculate how long that will be. I think we will see the ability to return to normal by the end of the year, but e
Businesses across the whole economy. Australias pension faces rising outflows as people are allowed to tap Retirement Funds to weather the fallout from the pandemic. Shery happening right now, President Trump speaking at the white house, saying that new infections remain flat across the u. S. Take a listen. Pres. Trump so we have nobody died and i said china, you cannot come in, sorry, because i saw what was going on. It was not so much what i was told, it was that i saw what was going on and i didnt like it. But, i didnt speak to tony about it. I didnt speak to very many people about it. What did i do . Ready . January 31, in the United States, not one person had died because of the, again, the wuhan virus. So, i issue travel restrictions on that date even though nobody died. I got brutalized over it by the press because i was way too early. I should not have done it. Brutalized by the press. I have been brutalized for the past four years. I used to do well before i decided to run for
China is accused of faking virus data. And oil slumps yet again. President trump says he may intervene in the standoff between saudi arabia and russia. Taylor lets get a check on how u. S. Stocks ended the day. We opened up to the downside. Off by 4. 4 . The biggest selloff in two weeks. Really acrosstheboard. All of the defensive sector selling off. There was some concern for the market. Perhaps some optimism as the selloff on wednesday could reverse some of those if you think futures are up. I want to flip up the board because it has all been coming down to these oil markets. Haidi we are setting up for that negative start to trading in asia. We are looking at japanese and korean futures. Weakness here in sydney. Looking at the degree of the trading, down more than 3 . Watching out for the kiwi dollar and aussie dollar. Taylor a press conference is happening now. President trump is warning that malign actors will try to exploit the situation. Naval vesselsg and planes in the region.