There are conversations floating about about whether brent and go negative. We are trading up 11 today. Up 1. 5 . The peripheral bond market, i massive story at the moment, as you can see. We saw a huge auction in spain earlier on, following on the heels of an auction yesterday in italy. We are continuing to watch what is happening as we build up towards an eu meeting tomorrow that could barely be make or break. The ecb talking about whether it could potentially accept grade that in collateral. Italy is facing a rating review come friday. This is a live debate in europe. Eurodollar trading at 1. 0852. Coming up, we are spending a lot of time talking about what is happening with the oil story. We going to fold that in to what is happening with other assets and how they are being affected. Also coming up shortly, we will hear from the nasdaq president , id enough freedom and nasdaq president , adena friedman. This is bloomberg. This is bloomberg markets. Good morning. Im Erik Schatzker i
Footing. If we do get some kind of opecplus deal, that will provide some support in the markets. Guy we are seeing equity markets bid, and it is stuff the market has really fallen out of love with that is catching the biggest bid. The travel and leisure sector, airlines, some of the catering companies, the hotel groups really bid today. Bid, up by 1 . We are anticipating any second now the start of a Video Conference call between eurozone finance ministers. We will get the results of that maybe a little later on. We continue to watch what is happening over at st. Thomas hospital, where the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is in intensive care. Withrms of what happening yields, going a little higher today. Trading at 37 basis points on the u. K. 10 year. Alix we will say higher maybe in quotes. For more on the impact of the virus, we are joined by kemal shree kumar by cobol shree kumar by hobo three rikumar. S are we seeing some sustained buying ability . Are greatse questions. I th
Exception of the bond market. We are down at session lows on the stoxx 600. Sector certainly taking it hard today, as we see this drop, a very sharp drop we are getting in the crude market at the moment. Theres a top line running on the bloomberg of the sharp drawdown we are seeing. In terms of the bond market, and some ways, this is where the real action is. The expectation is we will see significant supply, as a result of this we have a big move in bunds and btps. Btps pretty under pressure. It looks like the ecb via the bank of italy was in the market earlier on. When it comes to the markets, dollars strong. We are now trading at cable rates we havent seen since the mid80s. We went through 1. 20. Now we are trading with a 1. 18 handle on the cable rate. Alix i love that you brought up btps. At one point they were up by 58 basis points. The Trump Administration now promising a 1. 2 trillion dollar stimulus package, including direct payments of 1000 or more to americans. President tru
On every 19th. On february 19. Take a look at the banking sector, take a look at the mining sector, take a look at what is happening with the oil sector. These sectors are down by circa 30 since those highs were hit. Brent crude bouncing back today, up by nearly 8 , after saudi makes it very clear they intend to pump a lot of oil during the month of april. This Oil Price War is not going to go away in a hurry. The german 10 year yield, we are selling off today. We are 10 basis points higher. In italy, 12 basis points lower. The spread tightening up a little bit, but nevertheless, italy has been on offer for the last couple of days. Maybe some fiscal action helping the story out a little bit. Nevertheless, we have a big call between eu leaders. We will have to wait and see. Vonnie we will get all of that later today, but for todays market action, what we are looking at right now, we are joined by nancy davis, Quadratic Capital Management cio. Also joining us, our market live editor this
Brands at morgan stanley. Plenty of good news stories in the market today. The 10 year yield is at 1. 84 . A couple of dynamics going on here, not least of which Stephen Mnuchin talking about issuing a 20 year bond to help with the deficit. Guy really interesting story. Here in europe, stocks are at record highs. , a couple of reasons for this, one of which is the china data we will talk about in just a moment. Your conversation with phil hogan, the eu trade commissioner, sounding reasonably positive overnight in the conversation you had with him. That has helped sentiment here as well. Really weak retail data out of the u. K. Today, confirming the idea we could see a bank of england rate cut shortly. The pound is trading lower on that. Weve also got key levels being tested and it comes to eurodollar as well. I am told you want to watch out 1. 1080, a really key line in the sand. 1. 1102 right now. Growth helped by industrial output, retail sales, and fixed investments, all beating est