Asia thanks a second wave is coming. Stay talks with potential suitors are progressing well. Lets take a look at how we are checking up on this friday session of the week. We had a pretty good lead, ill be at a volatile session on wall street. Volatile section on wall street. U. S. Stocks falling after President Trump said he did not want to talk about trade issues with xi jinping. Going into the close, we saw a surge in oil prices, energy stocks, as well as beaten down bank and financial shares leading those gains. We are setting up for a pretty positive open here in asia. In new zealand, we are seeing trading get underway. It looks like we could pick up gains after two days of losses. We are seeing a positive lead when it comes to trading futures in japan, in hong kong, and in australia. It is a big day today when it comes to indicators out of china. We get those domestic activity numbers out when it comes to retail sales and industrial production, which could give us an indication a
Return to public life, as global past 251,000. In hong kong, they say they will relax restrictions soon. Bnp paribas is fullyear earnings take a pounding from the coronavirus pandemic. We will bring you our interview with the banks chief financial officer. Recovery mode. Goldman sachs and Morgan Stanley see signs of the World Economy is bottoming out. Could growth bounceback in the second half of the . We are just not half of the year . Where just under an hour away from cash trading in europe and the u. K. Lets take a look at where futures are after the pounding we took yesterday. Than 4 fell more yesterday before u. S. Stocks rose. We have european futures falling, asian stocks higher. Ftse futures up 1. 3 and dax futures up a little bit more than that. Take a look at u. S. Futures. We see gains there as well. S p 500 many contracts currently percent quarters of a and Dow Jones Futures up 0. 9 . These are todays top stories from the bloomberg terminal. An internal u. S. Government pr
Pandemic could do lasting harm to u. S. Productivity. And bnp paribas warns earnings will see a big hit from the outbreak as it takes more than one billion dollars in charges as a writedown. Economyr view, the getting back to normalization will be happening at the best at the end of the year and a return to gdp to normal will not be before 2022. Voice of guidance for those numbers. Warning that profitability could drop as much as 20 this year. Between 15 20 is the warning. In the dropping by 14 quarter but it is the announcer 9rovision covid1 provision. When you think about what has come so far, santander, 1. 6 billion. Deutsche bank was 500 million. What you see here is para bof taking a smack at the equity side of the business. Fixed income commodities rising by 35 . Those are the top line numbers. Let us get to lars maca henil. Were three projections impacting. The cost of risk. 500 million. Literally affect is leading to the accounting. Our portfolios are growing linked to what the
This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua at the Bloomberg European headquarters in london. We are waiting to hear from the german court of legality, coming up shortly. Meantime, this is what im looking at in markets. The markets are on tenterhooks on this ruling from the german government. I have to say, u. S. Futures are climbing. Sentiment being helped by expectations more economies will move toward easing of lockdowns. Oil on the course for its longest winning streak in nine months. What else i am looking at, earnings. We had b. N. P. Paribas rising, setting aside problem loans but warning fullyear earnings will take a pounding from the pandemic. Rallying after it reported a 35 plunge in First Quarter profit. Plenty more on that, and of course we are waiting for that ruling on the legality of qe from the german court, but first lets get straight to bloomberg first word news, with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with an internal u. S. Government projection showing the o
French group bucks the trerchd by confirming its dividend bnp says revenue is resilient. Saying the Economic Outlook is difficult. We should look at a return to normaliz normaliz normalized aspects is probably not going to happen this year. The return like in 2019 will not be reached before 2022 new car sales are almost completely wiped out in april, falling 97 . Levels not seen since 1946 as the coronavirus pandemic wipes out consumer demand. A clash of titans wework founder adam neumann takes the fight to softbank for scrapping the 3 billion tender offer that was paurt of a rescue plan for the Office Sharing group a warm welcome to street signs this morning. We are awaiting germanys Constitutional Court ruling on whether they overstepped the mandate purchasing bonds even if the courtrooms in favor of the central bank, the decision could have a Lasting Impact on measures including the pandemic emergency package lets get a check in the leadup to the decision. We have seen yields move h