Crude posting its longest winning streak in a year. Opec cuts may be draining the blood. And top fed officials weigh in on negative rates, saying such a move is not on the agenda for the foreseeable future. Shery lets get to a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures holding steady, after we saw the s p 500 fall on rising u. S. China tensions that we saw in the regular session. The s p 500 fell eight tense of 1 . Technology and utility also leading the losses. We have heard from china responding to act as asians from President Trump warning that responding to comments from President Trump warning that nasdaq sides biggest composite fall in more than a week. We also have some abysmal Economic Data. Millions of americans claiming jobless benefits. We are seeing wti under pressure, but still above the 33 a barrel level. This after sessions of gains. We are talking about the longest winning streak in more than a year. Haidi and really that crude story may be a bright spot as
After months of no magic, Shanghai Disney throws open its doors today. We will assess theme parks in the coronavirus era. Mixed we are looking at a , possibly positive start for asia. Lets go over to sophie looking at the markets. Sophie asian stocks setting up for a week delivering more Corporate Updates with about 500 companies on the msci aipac to respond this week. And the impact of lockdowns certainly how look growth will be impacted is going to be in focus. We will look at korean trade for may area so this one is edging lower, may. This one is edging lower. Chicago nikkei futures edging higher. The 10year yield adding seven basis points. Tracking the move we have seen of supplyelds pressures prelooking at the offshore yuan over 7. 09. It will bring us Monthly Economic activity data from china this week. Look at the pboc plans to strengthen Monetary Policy report and Pay Attention to growth and jobs on the mainland. Lets look at commodities this morning, oil edging lower after two
Here it is, word for word, quote, trump says china may or may not keep the trade deal, end quote. That sent stocks into the close. Check out the move on the nasdaq, for instance it was up big for most of the day and the sharp slide in the final moments of trade ditto for the s p 500. So guy adami, is china back in play here . Is this the next big risk factor for the markets . Yes, and before i get into great detail, i have to wish tim seymour, as he power pitches today, a very happy birthday just wanted to get that out. Happy birthday, tim seymour what was that very kind thank you. Yeah. I absolutely think this is a big deal and we started talking about it last week, and not in terms of their trade deal or where theyre going to keep their end of the bargain and in terms of some of the rhetoric coming out of the Trump Administration what im commenting is the rhetoric seems to be getting louder and in no way, shape or form is that market bullish especially given the fact that the markets
Yearoveryear, and that is demonstrating that both on the revenue side and on the expense side, the impact of the restructuring is making itself felt. Iose would be the things would focus on. The overall performance, obviously, is weighed on by the cru and the losses in the cru, but even there, we are progressing basically in line with our plans both for deleveraging and cost reduction. We also had earnings news out from daimler as well as volkswagen, and youve got some earnings lines coming in from barclays. Anna absolutely. We continue with the banking theme. We have Net Operating Income coming in at 4. 70 one billion pounds, a touch below the 4. 60 one billion that had been penciled in by analysts. Theres been a lot changing, of course, since the month of march, especially the volatility, as we know. Interesting to look at what has happened in the Investment Banking part of the business as well. 3. 62 billion dollars, well ahead of the estimates for that particular part of the busine
Seeing some good things in its earnings. We are also getting a few good out of a study on a gilead drug, sending shares higher today. It looks like this particular duration taking the drug allowing for the same results, which means we will be able to get more testing done to see if it has an impact on covid19. Guy the data are bad, the science is good. That is probably the message coming out today. The gilead news having a positive effect on european stocks. We are near session highs. Today is aial sector prime driver. Volkswagen trading to the upside. Airbus reporting numbers today, trading around 10 higher today. Outve also had a surprise of cycle downgrade for italy. Yields moving up a little bit, not that much. Big volatility continuing in the crude space. Brent trading up by 10. 5 . Vonnie keep an eye is well on the fed decision this afternoon, and the statement, which will be interesting. Jay powell will hold his virtual News Conference in the afternoon. For his thoughts, we are