Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim
This market . I mean, look, i will tell you in a month you know all we know is that the market was relatively high based on relative optimism and the optimism has been punctured. Is it terminal who knows. A mean a few weeks ago the market had a bad day on coronavirus. A monday ago it had a bad day on iran will it be long term or short . Nobody knows. People sort of throw around terms like black swan event and waiting for those types of thing to really cause a dramatic market selloff does it feel to you in your gut through all the markets you have seen that this is the kind of thing that could evolve into that as long as you use the word could. It has the potential to be that kind of thing, a catalyst. But you know, will the you know, its its on fear now you know a week ago, people were talking about containment. Now they are talking about contention now they are talking about italy, and you know, moving beyond china so i think that, you know, in one of my memos bryn knows all the memos
We are down by about 5, 6, 7 . European stocks off by 5 , 6 . Dollaryen was treading trending towards 100. Moving to treasury has been tremendous. 45 basis points on the 10year, german bun yield german bunds yield down two basis points. Theseonly down 23 , but are historic moves in the markets. To get another read on how the s p might open up, we want to look at the five biggest stocks within the s p, and they are now down between 5 and 6 . We want to update you on the global exchange. We will bring you all of todays market moving news from all over the world from hong kong to london to rome. All bloomberg voices are on the ground with top stories. We will begin with market action, particularly in oil, brent crude plunging 31 , the biggest drop since the gulf war in 1991. Joining us now is Annmarie Hordern. Annmarie we are seeing a massive selloff, unprecedented in the oil market. We have between shots. At the same time we have demand destruction across asia, in europe and the united s
The backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optimism lately with the resolutio
Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim