Thrilled you are with us, the simulcast, Bloomberg Radio coasttocoast, and good morning on bloomberg television. The new york city Christmas Tree lighting tonight at rockefeller center. All of the worry we have talked about of this pandemic, death set a record level in the United States come breaking the april 29 level as well. Jon, the markets speak. Moments ago, euro out to new recent record strength. Jonathan a record high in the equity market, the unwelcome record of the pandemic. 1. 21 53 on eurodollar. Once again, it is broadbased dollar weakness. You just wonder how uncovered it will this will make the ecb and how comfortable the move in eurochina will actually keep them. I think that is key, what happens broadbased for euro against other currencies. The im looking at bloomberg terminal here. You can see that on Bloomberg Radio right now. Renminbi comes down as well, with an abrupt move. At all correlates together, and then theres this zombie, the gloom of the bond market. How d
All week, weve been introducing you to the changing industry today. We are talking energy. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever in the world you are watching starting on the high note. Dow futures up about 150 points right now. On the first win streak in a month. Now today, what we call a quad rupa witching friday what does that mean . The singlestock options, futures and index options and futures. Why should you care . When all those things expire it is often associated with extra volatility just something to watch. Didnt narrow a bit. The same as they were at 10 at 0. 72 green arrows in asia overnight chinese stocks up and early trading we are seeing green on the screen to round out their weeks. Germany, france and uk all higher by just under 1 right now. In trade news, there is a report this morning that china plans to accelerate the purchase of u. S. Farm goods to meet the requirements with a trade deal following talks about top d
At 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Major retailer reportedly ready to file for bankruptcy. Commerce secretary wilbur ross will join me in 30minutes time. Markets look like this, fractional gain at the start of trading, dow industrials up 13 points and s p half a point and s p nasdaq up in 22. Dow trails finishing up 377 points, the nasdaq was up 32. Headed for third consecutive week of declines. Controversy is growing in general flynn case. Calling for fbi report that officials claim have vanished. Mornings with maria live. Global markets look higher across the board. Cac quarante is up 34 and dax index in germany up 179. Bank of england governor Andrew Bailey says negative rates are not being considered this following comment of jay powell this week and Germany Economy shrinking 2. 2 in the First Quarter. In asia markets were mixed. More signs of slowdown in china overnight. Retail sales there for the month of april were out, they were down 7 and a half percent. Then there was industrial output s
So bad that were going to be debating whether were in a serious recession or depression. We have pockets, though, of strength Like Technology and health care. But those pockets cant offset a very weak backdrop, can they we saw it again today. The dow lost 218 points. The s p 500, it tumbled. 7 . But the techheavy nasdaq also had the darn gall to rally. 51 , and was up a percent most of the day. Oh, the indignity. If you make technology that helps businesses cut costs by firing people, or having them stay home, youre doing great. If you make something people literally captain live cant live without, medicine, terrific Everything Else is a drug here staggering layoffs and the big drop in the index i am worried about, or at least a lot of what im worried about which is 9 s p 500. It gets worse. If you run a business leave it to the u. S. Economy and not chinas economy, well, now your stock is getting walloped. Over and over in the earnings season we see Companies Report an incredible 2 1
Consumerfacing businesses and both are on the move in the afterhours session and we have Team Coverage to break down both of these reports and lets kick things off with csx with the call now under way and lets get to Frank Holland with the details. Melissa, shares of csx up, and something weve seen in a number of other companies and one of its competitors, union pacific. On that call the ceo says production demand was too hard to forecast in this covid19 environment. Also during the call the cfo kevin boone said the Company Raised 500 million in debt and the Company Believes it is in position for a potential recovery and maintaining a strong cash reserve. Our Liquidity Position is extremely strong with nearly 2. 5 billion of cash and shortterm investments at the end of march this represents multiples of what we would consider normal, targeted cash levels cash may be strong, but volumes are weaker year over year to start q2 its been seen in the three weeks since the First Quarter ended