Tom wti is leading down, no question, francine, but i would look at the remarkable decline of floating oil, global oil, brent crude, well under 20 a barrel now. For it to sustain under 20, a splint to me how some of these nations move forward. You were talking in the last hour with the tourist rector of greece. I dont know if oil is good or bad for the tourist director of greece, but 20 brent crude does not get it done for a lot of other people. Francine i mean, i think the price of oil is secondary. If you are the greek minister for tourism, he was very careful because he wanted to speak to other nations to see if it was ok. But do you issue a Health Passport . How do you do with people congregating in lobbies . A thirdce, it employs of their population. Now to bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana a new strategy to expand coronavirus testing from the white house, that is our beginning on first word. States receiving new guidance on how to build testing capacity, les
Jerky market from the premarket to now any trends youre picking up i wouldnt say trends that last too long. I think this kind of choppiness, a little bit of aftershock navigation is what were trying to deal with right here. I do think it shows you what happens in these tightly compressed markets like oil when you have a hint of something oou, you know, going the other direction and you will get this exaggerated pop. Were in the zone in a less extreme way with equities too. Right now today weve traded within yesterdays range so even though it seems like weve been popping all over the place, weve essentially sort of operated within the bands that we set yesterday i dont think yesterdays 4 decline necessarily did too much damage to the idea that perhaps were in this bottoming process, maybe a week ago monday was okay for a shortterm extreme low but todays rally doesnt change the sto story either that it could go either way the conversation perhaps is going to turn a little bit more toward
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We have had six weeks of gains free u. S. And european equities. The longest run of gains like that in two years. The s p 500 hit another record on friday and we look to be on the front foot albeit in a muted fashion today. The seven that cut to day reverse repo rate in china which made the list in particular chinese equities. The 10 year yield dropping last week. We slid down from ed handel we had on november 7 and now back up basis point. What it will take to take us back up to 2 . A crucial few weeks ahead as weve had some positive news on andu. S. China trade talks Boris Johnson said all conservative candidates will back his brexit deal if he wins the december 12 election. Of course his party leading in the polls the moment. Coming up we will speak to u. K. Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Dont miss out at 1 00 p. M. U. K. Time. We begin with evaluation target for aramco with saudi arabia to add as low as 1. 6 trillion per thats well below the much touted 2 trillion. It would all
Ahead of todays key jobs report and promises from jerome powell. You have one week. The eu gives Boris Johnson seven days to revise his brexit deal, or risk a postponement of the u. K. s departure. And bob dudley steps down after a 48 year of the ceo of bp as the ceo of bp. Matt, good morning. Matt good morning. The are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. Right now, i wanted to show you the 10 year yield. This is what happened yesterday when you got the ism nonmanufacturing number. Investors buying bonds, pressuring the yield down to a little more than 1. 5. We are looking at 1. 54 on the 10 year yield. We are looking at solidly green futures here in europe. Not huge gains, but the ftse futures are up, about 0. 4 . Tack and dax futures trailing a little bit. The dax was closed yesterday, so today is the first day after a short holiday. It was reunification day here in germany. Markets looking like they are going to open up positively, but u. S. Futures are d