France relaunch. President macron unveiled his stimulus plan. The focus shifted beyond covid into longerterm problems. Russian tensions rise. Angela merkel says there is proof that an opponent was poisoned as he was tested in germany. And mercedes considers an electric version of its luxury maibach to defend its luxury anna welcome back to bloomberg position. Markets european open. Are just an hour away from 53 minutes into a positive the start of cash equity trading European Equity session. U. S. Futures have pared some in europe. Lets take a look at futures losses as well. That is worth keeping in mind. Right now. They are higher in europe. Lets talk to laura cooper from markets live team, where she is we are looking at gains across the board. Macro strategist. One of the things we will be watching for his initial jobless claims. I am drawn to a piece you have futures are higher. Written about the importance of data or the way that data that we usually see driving markets we see drop
The 10year is yielding 0. 75 . Well continue to monitor that as well. We have a lot of guests today. Including dr. Scott gottlieb who will join us in a couple of minutes. J js cfo, the ceo of moderna, ceo of related companies and the ceo of zoom. All in the next three hours. Andrew an update now on the pandemic in the United States. Now more than 582,000 cases and 23,000 deaths. North has 96,000 cases and 10,000 deaths. New york governor governor cuome numbers appear to have knocked off in new york. It was an accomplishment. A heck of accomplishment those Health Care Workers for the rest of my life, i will say nothing but thank you to them. I was not sure if we could keep the tide from overwhelming our hospital capacity. They did there is going to be no ephany or morning headline that says hallelujah, it is over thats not going to happen. Well hear more from dr. Scott gottlieb about plans to reopen the country and more about Governor Cuomos gathering of states on the east coast to disc
Exception of the new zealand dollar. We see the japanese yen weakening a bit and the renminbi was in focus. To 1714. Nching closer 711 93 for your onshore. Bonds are mixed across the board. Australian 10 we are watching it was the rba announced not a smaller amount than expected. Seeing a little bit of a selloff when it comes to your aussie bones. Up eight basis points. Areomes to brent, we getting a little bit of a breather. Higher. A half percent we are hovering around 21 for wti. There is optimism President Trump is going to be meeting. Ith oil execs that is leading to some of the oil bulls to come back out again. Lets get the first word news. U. S. Intelligence is accusing china of concealing the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak. Underreporting total cases and deaths. We are told the public statements about the infection have been intentionally incomplete and the numbers are fake. Beijing has changed its reporting of people and added hundred 30 extra cases in the first day.
Meeting to tackle the threat today. Nejra an emergency and shock move from the fed. Not just rate cuts but also 700 billion of asset purchases. The markets say its not enough. Take a look at the 10 year yields. We dropped as much as 30 basis points, down 27 right now on a 67 handle. Yields dropping across the curve and we are seeing flattening. The markets not responding well from what we have seen from powell. Dollar weakness. Morgan stanley saying markets are bottoming out so it is time to sell. You want to short the greenback versus the euro, the aussie, and the loonie. We are in the final part of a severe bear market. The bear market inequities that has been continuing in the asian session, a lot of red on the screen including japan. It is a lack of faith in centralbank ammunition. Have seen a lot of action throughout the night. The boj stopping short of a rate cut by talking about more stimulus in terms of etf purchases and a rate cut from the rbnz. Attention turns to the g7 call
Well im terry martin and welcome to the program governments across the world are intensifying their efforts to contain the coronavirus many countries are closing borders and shutting down all public life saying thats the only way to slow the spread of the disease stock markets have sustained the biggest losses in decades more on that the moment but 1st a look at how Many Americans in europe are scrambling to return home before a ban on travel to the u. S. Comes into force in a few hours time. A rude awakening for Many Americans in europe departure halls were packed as travelers scramble to get home after hearing that the u. S. Is restricting travel from the European Union starting at midnight Eastern Standard Time on friday it was pretty crazy because it sounded like 2 am we were on a. Train to the airport 3 flights were on a fly by like 9 am yeah i thought a little bit more heads up would have been nice because we freaked out and we found out so i guess communication wasnt great the b