4000 jobs worldwide. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. We are getting data out of italy. A bit better than expected. Is worse than expected, not better than expected. Shrinking 5. 4 in the first quarter, also after it was revised from a 4. 7 contraction before. That is having an impact on the stocks, if you look at european stocks, they are down to 1. 3 , and if you look at u. S. Treasury yields, 0. 6 . You what is going on, the crude oil with the biggest advance on record. President trump has said u. S. Policy measures on beijings move on hong kong. Chinas crackdown as trumps friend to retaliate have further escalated tensions. For more on all of this, we are joined by our chief asia economics correspondent, and the koran. Enda curran. Enda, what are we expecting trump to do . Quiteit could be significant for hong kong, beijing, because the president has a range of penalties to choose from. He could impose sanctions against in
Response, how europe response given the heightened trade tensions, how they could take advantage of that situation. Is what taylor, this the markets are telling us. Futures are climbing with european stocks. Im also looking at oil and treasuries to give us an indication of where we are seeing some of the havens. Treasuries on the dollar edging higher. I want to show you the chinese yuan. There is focus not only on this extra stimulus possibly coming from japan, but also on lockdowns. More Major Economies around the world opened up, taylor. Taylor we are hitting a milestone in the u. S. Yesterday you were looking at s p 3000. ,000, we have not closed above those levels, but it looks like we are seeming to get there. Some of that hope and optimism on the reopening is filtering through within the s p 500. Focusallcap domestic stocks, and a lot of optimism here about the strength of that u. S. Consumer coming back, making those smallcap mystic stops those smallcap domestic stocks amid the
Lets have a look at what has been really driving things here, haslinda. Haslinda the focus this week for markets will be that policy meeting in china. Fed chair Jerome Powell says a new rebound in u. S. Growth depends on the delivery of a vaccine, but he stressed that the economy will recover eventually. This economy will recover. It may take a while. It may take a period of time. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really do not know. Powells remarks follow a warning that and our chief asia correspondent, enda curran, joins us now. Away . S the key take powell saying he is not looking at negative rates. Enda not looking at negative rates, haslinda, but also saying they have some options on the table. The fed has done so much in terms of cutting Interest Rates. And all of the liquidity measures it has taken, they still have the option of doing what the bank of japan does. Yield curve controls. Some of the commentary now will be a around whether or not the fed starts tryin
Today, francine. After the three day weekend here in the united states, what i really suggest is the testing of how we get back to normal. The markets decided with futures higher. Francine we will have plenty more on the market shortly, but now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news from new york city. Ritika good morning, in france hasn hong kong, carrie lam defended the sweeping new security laws. She says it is untrue that the legislation would ban street protests. She promised Hong Kong Freedom would be preserved. Prodemocracy groups are planning another major rally tomorrow. President trump is vowing to move the Republican Convention out of North Carolina unless crowds are allowed. Statesa shot at the democratic governor, roy cooper. The president says he wants to be assured that republicans can gather in charlotte in august, whether there are coronavirus outbreaks or not. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing another day of pressure to discipline his top adviser.
Seeing whippy action. Lots of movement happening all over the place. We are going to take you through all the news with global exchange, the market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to new york to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. Announced newj measures to pump liquidity into the markets to ensure financial stability. Joining bs enda curran. What do we see joining me is in the current joining me is enda curran. What do we see . They bought around 100 billion worth of stock funds and came out with an emergency statement making it clear that they will do whatever it takes liquidity ande is stability in the markets. The boj actions are flecked growing concern about dollar reflect actions growing concern about dollar shortage. We have seen australia pump in a lot of money, and china centralbank top off today with the rrr rate cut. That is all about freeing up funds for banks to lend more to companies that need it