This is the august 12th, 2020 budget and pre prations meeting. Im sandily fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Member supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen and yee. Do we have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect our members citi employees and the public, the board of supervisors and ledge lay ter of chamber and Committee Room are closed but members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent as if theyre physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and streaming the number across the screen, each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 415 6550001. 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 1460772734, a
Data on industrial output offers signs of encouragement. Shares in gilead jumped in late trade on positive reports on a coronavirus drug. Openg source on plans to factories in seattle. We hear from the ceo of rival airbus. We are seeing a lot of positive sentiment across the markets today. Investors seeming to be looking to the data we got out of china. Not really a surprise we got that drop in firstquarter gdp. The big question remains if Consumer Confidence can come back as the lockdown starts to ease. Speaking of that, it is u. S. Esting, you will see futures. The question remains well investors start to see that as a move to early that could reawaken the risk of a new wave of infections. The market fairly positive. The european futures on the front foot as well. 10year treasury yields moving higher by four basis points. You are seeing dollar weakness across all g10. Some of those Commodity Currencies weaker. Oil anguish and, just before 24 a barrel. President trump has unveiled gui
Chinas economy contracts for the First Time Since at least 1992 after the coronavirus lockdown but industrial output numbers offer signs of encouragement. Stocks push higher as President Trump outlines steps to reopen the economy despite data showing 5 million more americans filed for unemployment. Plus hedge funds suffer a volatile march. And the worst ever losses posted. We will see this morning what u. K. Asset manager things. Breaking headlines on european car sales plunging 52 in march. European car sales more than getting cut in half in march yearoveryear. The biggest drop on record. We will be sure to talk a lot about cars today. Hsbc upgraded bmw shares to a buy. Anna a lot to talk about in terms of the car story an interesting to see the plans are around reopening car production. Let us talk about man group. The World Largest publicly traded hedge fund. Net inflows for the First Quarter, 5 million. Standing at 104 billion u. S. Dollars. These numbers are coming through. They a
The various heroic people working at mount sinai hospital, i am tom keene, Francine Lacqua in london. Cavendish,d to baron it is an interesting mix in the United Kingdom of the politics of the government and the fairly grim pandemic statistics. Seenine we also havent from Boris Johnson and a while, so the daily briefings are led by various cabinet ministers, and yesterday we had the further three weeks of lockdown expansion extended. As baroness cavendish was saying, maybe we need more testing. What the markets are looking at, they are looking through the number of cases that are slowly increasing in europe and still increasing in the u. S. , they are looking through the deaths and infected cases, and chinese gdp was horrific, the first contraction in a decade, and they are focusing on the positive. We could have a drug that is working, from gilead, and President Trump has given a timeline and thought on how the economy could reopen. Tom i really want to emphasize, every politician in
Little bit. We are seeing btps with a little but of a bid today. Euro with an offer. It is interesting that stocks are higher and the dollar is higher as well. Crude is also tracking a little bit higher. We are trading on the global 27. 95. K at european markets probably in a bit of a Holding Pattern right now. We are going to carry on the conversation on what is happening with some of these big global banks that are reporting numbers. James gorman of Morgan Stanley was the latest entry into the story today. We will be hearing from mr. Gorman very shortly. This is bloomberg. Welcome to our Bloomberg Television and radio audiences, live from new york city. Im erik schatzker. Morgan stanley reported earnings this morning, and it was mostly a strong performance, given the extraordinary period weve lived through, the volatility in march. With us for an interview is none other than the firms chairman and ceo, james gorman. Thank you for joining us. James thank you for having us. Erik you ha