Forecasts. The top lines are up. Revenues up 4 if you look at the activities. Despite the impact iag luke to raise 3 billion euros and klm unveils an operating loss sending both shares into the red. Six years of growth wiped out in spain as gdp drops in the Second Quarter but the French Economy shrinks less than expected down 15. 8 . Happy friday welcome to street signs. Weve got a lot of earnings to get to lets talk gdp first weve heard from france and spain. Now numbers from italy preliminary q 2 gdp slank quarter on quarter less expected a value. Theyve advised their q 1 estimate of 5. 4 contraction quarter on quarter and 5. 4 year on year. Slightly worse than anticipated. Q 1 marginally worse but q 2 better than expecting. An unprecedented slump for italy but the takeaway better than analysts had feared. Not quite as grim as the market had been bracing for looking at the euro gaining ground currently trades around 118. 77 we have the france and spain numbers. Spains economy shrunk
Be risk on. The cash trade, less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. Big attack its even bigger. Alphabetacebook, and tune to techsumers to solve the problems of a global lockdown. The French Economy shrinks 13. 8 or after an increase in jobless claims shows the recovery is in shaky ground. Ibar, bnp arab are par beats all but one of the big wall street banks. Just an hour from cash trading. Lets look at futures. Futures futures, u. K. Are down but only slight moves. Nothing material. Nothing to show us what kind of direction we can expect. Futures right ww, if you take a look at the eif screen, also slightly mixed this morning. Of working slew earnings news. I will kick it off right now with natwest. Impairment charge of 3. 54. 5 billion pounds. Expecting less than one billion. In the Second Quarter, more than doubled the impairment charge for the full year. The company expecting at least possibly up to 4. 5 billion. The operating lost was 770 million pounds. Have iag asyou we
Once again i say good morning to we have been full by randomness. The story of the french banks this morning is absolutely extraordinary. Francine the french banks, but actually hsbc also disappointed. That is why we are seeing a to thebit of weight banking stocks in europe. I know you want to start with your data tom. Volatility for august. Tom lets do the data check as we go into august. I like what kit juckes of socgen says. August has some risk to it, and we start out with a turn. The markets lower, but the nasdaq 100 trading abruptly higher in america. We will have to see how the tech stocks open. In the yield space, it is a jumble right now. Maybe Early Morning u. S. We are not there. As we see the churn in europe and such. The real news is the u. S. 10year inflationadjusted piece. 1. 01. It breached one on friday, or maybe it was thursday. That is a huge indicator of disinflation. Merrick and oil under 40 a barrel gets my attention american oil under 40 a barrel gets my attentio
Spend time on and we have euro area pmis coming in a touch better than expected but im not sure if it is moving eurodollar that much. 39. 80, always a good test looking at command and what it means for the world economy. Point 1764 and we look at her earnings with a couple of disappointments in the banking sector. Joint manufacturing pmi coming in at 51. 8 instead of 51. 1. Lets get the first word news with laura wright. Laura the u. S. Plans to act against a wide range of chinese owned software companies, not just tiktok. Thats the latest from secretary of state mike pompeo speaking to fox news. On friday, President Trump told supporters he plans to ban the app. Pompeo said the decision should come soon. The u. K. Is considering the worst case in a real of locking down london according to the sunday times. It would see at risk people asked to stay at home. The local government secretary says he is not aware of any specific plans to seal off london but the u. K. Will target local flare
Havens. Gold surges with a spot price nearing 2000. Bullish bets on the euro hit a record ahead of todays pmi number. Cash tradings one hour away. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Tictoc terminal tiktok turmoil. Stocks and futures trading mixed. Toe pompeo suggests action protect National Security will not stop with this company alone. Surging baddip on loans. The group says it will accelerate cost cuts. Hear from our exclusive interview with the cfo. 16. 4 billion. They broker a deal for speedway gas stations. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading, take a look at what is going on in terms of futures. Ftse futures down this morning, about. 2 . Dax futures rising. If you were to broaden out this view, you would see an even bigger range. Cac futures are up more than. 5 percent right now. Omx futures are down. 7 . Take a look at what is going on in the u. S. A little bit of a mixed picture as well with nasdaq futures higher this morning. S