They want to break up the nra once and for all. And fast, free, but not optional. Germany is making coronavirus tests mandatory for all people entering the country from designated hotspots. New infections here are increasing, now at their highest level in three months. Brent on brent goff. To our viewers on pbs and all around the world and the united states, welcome. The message to beirut today you are not alone. Help is on the way. Macron pledged to spearhead a donors conference to rebuild the city, but said there will be no blank checks, demanding political leaders begin real reform before it is too late. In a city racked in a city racked by the force of tuesdays catastrophic explosion, people in beirut are coming together to clean up the debris in the city streets. But with solidarity and a strong sense of Community Comes also anger. Atat the c corruption and mismanagement that are seen as causes of the blast, and thatat have plagued the country for decades. We are no longer able to
Cheerleading forward as we expect politicians to do. The underlying math on the thursday past was outright graham. Outright graham. Whether it was germany or russia. Increasedew york city 9. 8 yesterday. That is a huge fall back from the end of may story we have been getting. Francine if you look at the pattern, if it is anything like we saw in france, gets better and then gets worse and then get better. Bear with us and good luck to everyone. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. There china hasnt had an economic report like this in decades. The coronavirus pushing the countrys economy into a contraction in the First Quarter. Gdp shrinking to 6. 8 from a year ago, the worst performance since at least 1992. Recovery will not be easy. Coronavirus has hammered business around the world. China will have to demand will have to rely on fragile domestic demand. It is a threephase process. The president says some phases could begin literally tomorrow. The guidelines mark
Governor cuomo looking for any optimism he can find. Some geographies of america doing better in the pandemic, but the death and the rate of change of deaths refuses to bend over and go lower. With extraordinary measures being applied and something we all need to reflect on as we think about what comes next. These managing to keep numbers stable, but with extreme measures when it comes to how our society is functioning. How we reopen needs to be seen in this light, and it will be a challenge around the world for governments to reopen economies. Tom good reporting earlier from guy on the state of the Prime Minister, a conversation with Iain Duncan Smith moments ago. Our oninue with a strong the economics of the pandemic strong hour on the economics of the pandemic. Ministers. U. Finance were on an emergency teleconference lasting more than 16 hours. Strategynot agree on a to battle the pandemic. E. U. Issue joint debt to help economies recover . Boris johnson is being monitored in inten
All of the sectors are lower. One of those stocks is Newmont Mining because gold is higher as a safe haven, up 1. 3 now, well above the 1600 an ounce ma rk. Clearly an ominous environment right now. Earlier this week, we had swings day,. 2 and plus 1 in one so it is not unusual to see these swings today. The other assets i wanted to point to, dollaryen. We are seeking we are seeing a weaker dollar. Very interesting move in the currencies, and obviously that will continue throughout the session. If we have the s p 500, i can show you that the stocks that are lower are primarily once vonnie live from new york, im again the travel companies, the airlines. American airlines down seven vonnie quinn. Guy from london, im guy point 5 . The moves to the downside are very big. Johnson. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Vonnie lets check in on the united down. Royal caribbean lower. State street lower. First word news. A note out from an analyst on heres viviana hurtado. Viviana rates for 30 year u.
What will be watch . We will watch wage growth. Good morning, this is bloomberg surveillance. Guy johnson is with us. There is a really dramatic photo of a helicopter dropping down on a cruise ship. What is the mood in the london weekend . Guy the mood is everyone is trying to figure who has what. We dont have enough test kits. Knowledge as to wether or not this is spreading quickly, slowly, how we people have it. It does not exist right now. Tom i believe it would be called unknownunknown. Screens tothree data start things off. With our first word news, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the coronavirus. Almost 100,000 coronavirus cases have been diagnosed globally. The majority in china. Beijing reporting the number of new cases and deaths are falling. The u. S. Outbreak is getting larger. There have been more than 130 cases reported and at least 11 desperate there is a key to wether the Central Banks cut rates again. This from robert kaplan. He is looking at how fast the