A National Record of 59000 cases in just one day one day across the United States one of the worst hit areas by far is the state of florida it is contributing 9000 cases a day. Or put a different way 15 percent of all cases nationally in fact just this morning that jumped to 11000 a day which would make it 19 percent if my math is correct of all the cases nationally 19 percent of all the cases are coming from florida consider this florida is just one of 50 states in the United States so thats a pretty big share there has been a suggestion that large numbers by themselves they dont really matter the president for example he said the numbers are only going up because more people are being tested floridas governor he also minimise the reason for alarm stressing that those that are being infected right now are just young people and young people tend to not need hospital care. Half the cases are in their early thirties or below and in then of the ones that are over that theres a huge bulk o
The dollar index is above 100. Crude is trading at 1. 30 right now. Europe, guy. Vincent lets take a look at what is happening here guy lets take a look at what is happening here. As you can see, it is down heavily on the day, but still trading at 20 a barrel. Down by 20 on the session. We are hearing the currency effect coming through. One of those is the norwegian krone. The dollar benefiting as a result. Copper trading sharply down as well. We are seeing this bleed into other parts of the commodity space, as a result of which the lead sectors down are the oil and gas sector and the mining sector. European equities down by 2. 37 at the moment. Every single sector in negative territory. Vonnie a rough day, for sure. For more on the ripple effects of the oil selloff, we are cibcd by rebecca babin, private wealth senior trader. Anticipating that it would run out of shares, waiting for the sec to issue more. What do you read from this . Should we think of it as having wider implications
Orders the numbers are not pretty the dow on track for its worst First Quarter ever falling more than 20 Retail Stocks are front and center as the coronavirus handcuffs the once strong u. S. Consumer how long will the pain last . Well dig in on that this hour bob, we begin with you and the markets today. Good riddance to this First Quarter of second worst quarter s p history. This is why everybody is hopeful about rebalancing a little bit here corporate bonds, flat and high yield down 12 be. Reminding us in a recession these kinds of bonds, high yield tend to act like stocks. A little bit reminder about that we have good news and bad news the good news is the president is out today pushing an infrastructure stimulus. That would be a number of programs out there we have progress on the vaccines and testing. The fed and congress have gotten very aggressive in the last few weeks. All good news. Theres still bad news we havent begun to see the really bad Economic News the market is very do
And says it will support a slowing economy. Australia fights bushfires on two coasts as the fans flames are fanned. Hottest days since record began. Shery clicks check foraw the dow gaining. 8 the first time surpassing the 28,000 level as we had a broad risk on session. S p 500 being led higher by health care and trade sensitive tech stocks. More positive trait headlines and that helped boost the stock market. Semi conductors, the Philadelphia Semiconductor index at a record high after Applied Materials came out and boosted sales forecasts. Nasdaq also at a record high come up. 7 . Haven assets broadly falling. 10 year yield rising for the first time last week not to mention that the dollar also saw a weekly loss. We will keep a close eye on what happens in hong kong this morning as we are now Hearing Police are ready to storm into the Polytechnic University in hong kong. Lets see how things are shaping up in asia. Sophie hong kong certainly is a focal point this monday morning. We are
Coming out with earnings this morning. The big story that cut its full year revenue view seemed to maintain its earnings and increase its gross margin forecast for the rest of the year. Its revenue at 2 versus 4 on the high end. Remember this is all in part as well as the stock plunges. They did not comment. They wont comment on any further investigation. They do say they are cooperating. Our time for global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Bangkok to london to washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start off with the latest trade development. The u. S. And china say they are close to agreeing on the first part of a trade deal. Wilbur ross spoke to bloomberg expressing optimism on the socalled phase one deal. I think we are in good shape. We are making good progress. And theres no natural reason why it couldnt be. Alix joining me on the phone from bangkok is ed in a edna. Also that exclusive i