Italy is seeing its worst coronavirus numbers yet. The Company Country reported 8800 new cases today, up from 7300 the day before. The number of patients in intensive care also rose. Imposed aime minister series of new curbs on nightlife, social events, and amateur sports as the pandemic intensifies throughout the country. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. London and paris among cities ordered to clamp down and curb an increased spread of coronavirus. Countries looking to avoid reinstituting lockdowns. Lena komileva joins us to talk about the virus and the passing of the october 15 deadline for a u. K. Eu trade deal. Coronavirus
33 points and nasdaq is up 92 and the s p is up 8 points. Yesterday the dow industrials snapping a 4session winning streak with decline of the session with 135 points and nasdaq down 76 and s p lower by 11. Warning on china that i reported here first, attorney general bill barr calling out American Companies for caving into the pressure from beijing. Bombshell allegation, 15 employees of the Washington Redskins said they were harassed for years. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria in europe mixed moves, the ftse 100 is up 21 but cac quarante is down 15 and dax higher by 42. In asia overnight markets mostly higher with the exception of japan, nikkei average overnight down a third of a percent and the other fractionally moving across the board. Some of the top stories we are watching right now, John Hopkins University reporting over 77,000 new cases yesterday. 10,000 higher than the previous high. 969 deaths were also reported. Florida, South Carolina and texas all reporting the
The who reports the most infections for a single day. Global stocks trade lower as u. S. Futures swing from gains to losses. Bloomberg learns the german lender could cut up to 7000 jobs and shutter 400 branches after its current costcutting measures were called in abject failer failure. And starbucks, pepsico, and biaggi out are the latest pump needs to curtail ad spending on facebook. Pressure on the company to crack down on hate speech shows no signs of slowing down. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe and the u. K. Futures red across the board. In europe we are looking at 1 plus losses. Germany. Much here in euro stock futures down about. 75 . U. S. Futures swinging from gains to losses. Now we are looking at about a. 25 drop for the s p. Nasdaq futures down about. 5 . What are you seeing on the gmm . Anna in conjunction with european futures, they. 4 a point forening they a weaker open. Chinese equities looking relatively resilient. Japanese nik
Restrictions, giving us clues as to how consumers may react durables down 14 june wti holding at 17 as energy is the only positive sector for the week a lot of discussion about 2,800, are we range bound where is the ceiling now markets giving all kinds of important clues. A lot of analysts, we follow them for a long time they wait and wait until theres a moment where they can go negative theres enough companies that have done well, i have every piece of research in front of me i dont have an upgrade. I have downgrade, downgrade, downgrade. Because the stocks have run, it gives these analysts a chance to say, uh, im so lucky. It went from 29,000 down to 18 it bounced back, and now i can get off and not look bad and thats the whole tone of this morning i find it curious. I think that in general the companies have done a pretty good job just they like to pull their forecast because who the heck knows. If dr. Gottlieb doesnt know what will happen, why should he expect these guys to know wh
Bring a malaria drug to u. S. Patients. Global equities make gains amidst tentative signs of Risk Appetite. Surges as President Trump says he may intervene in the price war. Welcome to a daybreak europe. We have seen 30 Central Banks cutting rates this week. 1. 5 trillion dollars of fiscal stimulus pledged worldwide. We have started to see stability in the market. Asian equities, excluding japan. Yesterday, we did not see limit up, limit down circuit breakers. In fact, we saw a little green on the screen, futures are dead flat. We have not yet broken the christmas low. European futures are firmly in the green and darl are dollar weakness is the focus. The fed starts dollar swap lines with nine more Central Banks and concerns around the lockdown pushed the dollar lower. Most beaten up currencies are catching a little bit of a bid. Oil record search yesterday as President Trump says he may intervene. Gold is higher and catching a bid, heading for its first backtoback weekly loss since se