Problems persist. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. The chief of staff says the differences are still significant. Julys job report looms. Welcome to daybreak europe. We are seeing red on the screen, but it is china and hong kong bearing the brunt of the losses, and in particular tencent after the president s move to ban tiktok. In terms of what we have been seeing, the u. S. Benchmark is getting close to a record this week. Global equities heading to a weekly gain, but that perhaps faltering slightly on this latest rise in geopolitical tension. We also see some weakening in the yuan. Ae dollar strengthening on broad basis, looking at the bloomberg dollar index. Acting like that safe haven again with these tensions and concerns rising. The 10 year yield also reflecting the risk of sentiment. Lets get more details on that story as trump moves to ban tiktok. The u. S. President signed an exec at of order prohibiting residents from doing any business with
Down. 2 , nonfarm futures, claims better than expected. Next chart, dollar remains in story or theme around the dollar today, relative weakness against the g10 but not so much against emergingmarket currencies. That is what the dollar is doing right now. Weakness in offshore currency remains on the back of this broader news from the trump administration, down. 2 , that is your aussie dollar, risk off mood, down. 1 , and the boe is flat against the u. S. Dollar. Gold move to commodities, publicly above 2050 and out, further gains. Not as Much Movement in terms of stimulus conversations in washington. Barrel, up,42 a maybe on track for gains across the week. And that is your yield for the 1132 and 52. , tencents down on the back of this executive order. Just how much and how significant this move is by President Trump is of course the question, given wechat is largely used by the chineseamerican community. It is not clear how much revenue tencent derives from the u. S. Market, but this i
The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j
In houston. Test the shares rise after hours as Quarterly Earnings beat the streets. Profitability meets the criteria for inclusion in the s p 500. We got a report earlier today that china is moving to close a u. S. Consulate, not being seen by some commentators at as some sit as serious as hong kong. Saying that asian would likely respond to the forced closure of that beijing would likely respond to the forced closure of its consulate. The possibility of potential cuts to its larger hong kong mission. He said cutting the Mission Staff in hong kong to 100 or 200 people is an option. China has pledged to respond to the u. S. Closing its houston consulate. Will come back to that and the Market Reaction in a moment. We are of course into earnings season. Lets get some of the lines from daimler. Considerable Global Economic outlook decline in 2020. In terms of other lines, it sees a bit to be positive in 2020 but lower than the prior year. Considerable it sees a considerable decline in glo
The dow up. 2 . Moves. Elping those , back above 42. The dollar index at 92. 74. Stronger sterling, stronger euro, stronger yen. Pandemic an interesting time for investors, distressed investors among them. Erik schatzker is speaking to howard marks of oaktree. Always terrific to have howard marks with us on bloomberg television. Weigh in on tenterhooks for your memos. A lot of them in march and april. Not so many as of late. You are out with another one, time for thinking. You raise a number of provocative points and questions. Them states the obvious, the Financial Markets are at the center of a titanic struggle between the pandemic on the one hand, and the government effectively on the other, recession versus the fed and treasury department. You and i have talked about this before. As recently as may, youre thinking was that the fed could not keep it up forever. Am i to divine that perhaps youre thinking has changed on that subject . No, i still dont know if they can keep it up forev