It is still on. President trump insists a phase one trade agreement with china is fully intact. Peter navarro claims his earlier comments were taken out of context after suggesting the deal was over. The European Commission is more confrontational. E. U. Lash out at beijing over hong kongs autonomy, disinformation, and foreign investor meant foreign investment. We are in brussels. Hard times for softbank. The Company Sells part of its tmobile stake, creating 21 billion dollars to help offset record losses in its investment business. We will have the details for you briefly. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning after we closed down yesterday in the u. S. And the u. S. Managed to eek out some gains. They are trading solidly higher. Dax futures are up. 6 percent. Ftse futures up about. 25 . What do you see on the gmm . Anna we have certainly been whipsawed by those comments by Peter Navarro on trade and the abil
Up 2. 5 . T 28. 44, guy basically saying banks need to open get on with lending to firms. You want some of these firms to still be around to be able to start the economy. At the moment, there still seems to be a certain amount of difficulty in getting money out the door to the businesses that actually require it. Andrew bailey also indicating he sees nothing implausible in a drop,st for a 35 q2 gdp a massive economic hit coming for the United Kingdom. Yesterday, it be and confirmed that we will see another three weeks of lockdown in the u. K. Economy. We will talk about the input agents for the pound when it comes to that story in just a few minutes. European stocks are up on the week. Main markets up on the week as well, except for the spanish and italian markets, which are we getting. It is, as somebody put it a little earlier on, a day for dumpster diving, particularly on the ftse 100. Stocks. Ld is one of the we are positive on the day, negative on the week. As you highlighted, i t
Any mutualization. Vonnie we are seeing a nice bounce for equities today. The dow in the s p both up 1. 5 to 1. 7 . The nasdaq up 2. 1 . All Industry Groups in the s p 500 higher, even though we are off our highs for the day. The one teetering on the edge is the home wherein transportation index, but they are basically flat to down 0. 1 or so. Some good earnings overnight. Many companies, including kimberlyclark, just getting rid of guidance altogether for the year because it is just impossible to know how the rest of the year is going to pan out. The likes of twoputt lake the likes of chipotle up, and Companies Like halliburton up. Diamondback up 8 , bouncing after getting absolutely hammered the last couple of days. Lets carry on the conversation about what is happening in the crude market, a big focus right now. Following that report on inventories. Weve also got the president s comments on what could happen the gulf when it comes to iranian boats. That is having an effect. Brent bo
Businesses across the whole economy. Australias pension faces rising outflows as people are allowed to tap Retirement Funds to weather the fallout from the pandemic. Shery happening right now, President Trump speaking at the white house, saying that new infections remain flat across the u. S. Take a listen. Pres. Trump so we have nobody died and i said china, you cannot come in, sorry, because i saw what was going on. It was not so much what i was told, it was that i saw what was going on and i didnt like it. But, i didnt speak to tony about it. I didnt speak to very many people about it. What did i do . Ready . January 31, in the United States, not one person had died because of the, again, the wuhan virus. So, i issue travel restrictions on that date even though nobody died. I got brutalized over it by the press because i was way too early. I should not have done it. Brutalized by the press. I have been brutalized for the past four years. I used to do well before i decided to run for
Space. Oil getting a bit of a reprieve. The concern is you have even more oil flow if the opec deal comes to an end. We want to get you todays market moving news from new york as well as washington. We want to start with the latest pmi data. Factories around the world suffering one of their grimmest months on record in march. Fbloombergs Michael Mckee joins me for more. Theres a lot to dig into. Give me some of your takeaways here. Michael mr. Rogers word of the day is contraction. Across the developed world, they are pretty bleak at this point. Some of them not as bad as thought because of a quirk in the data, but lets go through the data right now. Anybodye hardest hit of i the virus, and now the hardest hit in terms of the pmi number. Eurozoneance, germany, u. K. Are also in the 40s, which marks contraction. New orders of production crashed, but there is a quirk in the data where supplier delivery times are linked. However, in this case, there are no supplies to deliver, so it makes