Putting pressure on oil markets as well. And marie hoarder me for more. Walk us Annmarie Hordern joins me for more. Walk us through the veracity of the selloff, and does it last . Annmarie the next 24 hours is going to be quite bumpy for this may contract. Basically, it is Financial Derivatives meeting the physical oil market and what we are seeing on the storage side. If you are not out of this position financially and you are a futures trader, you have to accept the physical oil. The problem is, theres really nowhere else to put it. Look at cushing. That storage is quickly filling up, and that is the main hub in the United States, where you have pipelines to canada, the midlands, or the gulf. The may contract now trading at , which3, plus contango means if you look at the june contract, trading at about 23 a barrel, it is about a nine dollar differential, the most on record. If you look down the table of what you see for june, july, august, the prices are certainly higher on the futu
Dose of downgrades today, well find out if any of our traders are touching our stock shares are lower right now as the companys Conference Call is underway well break down any of the big headlines that come out. We begin with an historic collapse in energy prices. Oil falling below zero dollars a barrel for the First Time Ever the main contract tumbling more than 300 to around minus 36 a barrel yes, minus 36 a barrel. The more actively traded june oil contract also falling hard in todays session look at what happened to some of the energy stocks. The etf held up. Are there stocks that are presenting some big opportunities in this crude collapse guy adami, could we be seeing some sort of a sign of a floor for some of these equities wait a second, we dont just go right into the show i think the last time you were request us was probably december 5th or 6th, is that right . Yes here we are december 3rd, were back april 20th, youre not going to say anything. I dont want to speak on behalf
Hours as we await the next jobs number. Time now for global exchange. From london to berlin and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with irans response to claims that the ukrainian passenger jet crashed in tehran was shut down. The head of the countrys Civil Aviation authority said this on state tv. Law, i said, based on the there is full coordination between our air defense and civil system. Are Aviation Personnel and defense personnel sit sidebyside, so it is absolutely impossible for such a thing to happen. Alix for more, we are joined by stuart wallace, Bloomberg News director for the middle east, joining us from washington. What is the latest . Stuart tehran came out with that, and they are sticking to its story. They continue to stick to that line despite just about everyone theye world saying that have reasonably good intelligence that there was at least a possibility that airplane was hit by a missile. That hasnt been
We bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin with china. The government has agreed to cut import tariffs on a wide range. F goods joining us is stephen engle. Break down what we know about the tariffs, why now, etc. Stephen this comes fresh after a trade one agreement a phase one trade agreement. A gesture, yes, to show its lowering trade barriers, but it also wants to spur domestic spending for those 859 products he mentioned, from smartphone parts to food, in particular, frozen pork. All of these products will enjoy lower tariffs, and it comes as china hosts a critical trilateral summit this week that has already kicked off in beijing between china and japan. South korea will also take part. Trade, territorial disputes, military maneuverings, of course, exacerbated by north thoses posturing, and all historical animosities still persist. So those talks should be welcome. Been korea
Guy johnson in london. Lets get the first word news. China is on a mission to create an Aircraft Carriersized investment bank. They are opening up 45 trillion financial industry would also wants to beef up its own players to go toe to tell giants. At the moment chinas brokers dont have much of an international presence. Adding together the 131 brokers have about as many assets as Goldman Sachs by itself. Germany expects the nord stream 2 two gas pipeline to be delayed but it should be completed in the second half of next year. Costs are rising after sanctions u. S. Sanctions on the project. Of japan and south korea are holding their first formal meeting in 15 months amid a longstanding historical dispute that hit trade in the region. It also had a trilateral meeting between the three. Theyve reached International Cooperation on dealing with north korea. 2019 has been a good year for the superrich. Almostrichest man added 17 billion to his wealth this year. Over 11 billion. , bernard,nn