At roughly 2 00 p. M. The president is expected to take the podium and unveil a policy action or slate of actions that is expected to significantly escalate tensions with china in the wake of the coronavirus and just months after that much harolding phase one deal was struck in january. You can see the reporters there to answer questions. This has been an announcement thats been telegraphed slowly throughout the week. Theres been an significant ramp up on behalf of the administration in the last week after china sought to impose a National Security law in hong kong that would crackdown on public demonstrations there. Since then, the secretary of state has told congress that hong kong is no longer autonomous the secretary of state certifying that is the case and that could result in some policy actions that could lead to the revocation of the special economic status in hong kong that allows that territory to be free of tariffs. That is one of the policy recommendations that was on a men
Us over time significantly closer to what i have called the pre covid inflation path while allowing us to monitor how some Key Developments unfold. Taking off british carriers hitting the top of the stoxx 600 as signs point to a recovery in the industry. Oil prices rising on the news opec and allies will meet tomorrow in a signal there may be consensus onextending outpu cuts a warm welcome. We are waking up a day after the ecb meeting. Lets look at some of the Market Reaction to the meeting. The euro has climbed to a threemonth high while italian bond yield on the back of the decision to ramp up the stimulus plan the euro trading about 11 basis points higher to 11347. The ecb will double its Bond Purchasing Program to 1. 25 trillion euros the ecb president Christine Lagarde ses they still face a contraction of 7 this year. They dont expect inflation to rise leaving it far below the 2 target she said she hoped the boosted bond buying will steer inflation back to pre covid levels collect
The World Economy faces a potential lengthy coronavirus recovery london based i just mark it said it expects the Global Economy to shrink 5. 5 percent this year now thats triple the damage from the 2008 financial crisis and a new report by the World Economic forum surveying risk managers is now suggesting this will be a long lasting global recession a contraction for the next 18 months managing director of the World Economic forum say he said the crisis has devastated lives and livelihoods it has triggered an economic crisis with far reaching implications and revealed the inadequacies of the past meanwhile on tuesday taiwan said it was disappointed and angry with the w. H. O. For not inviting the country to join this years world health assembly. I dont believe the ministry of Foreign Affairs and the british is strong dissatisfaction with the World Health Organization secretary has yielded to pressure from the Chinese Government and continues to disregard the right of the 23000000 peopl
Edition of squawk box, which is starting right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watching with the u. S. Equity market and things are under pressure dow was down by 600 points on friday and adding to those losses today dow futures right now down by 273 points earlier this morning we were down by 350, so this is some improvement from a half an hour ago. The s p is down by 28 points the nasdaq off by 61 lets get rightto our big stor of the morning that is, of course, the Berkshire Hathaway meeting that was health over the weekend. Warren buffett speaking out about the Global Pandemic and his recent investment moves. This was a little different this year no crowds. Usually theres 40,000 people there. This time it was just buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Vice President on stable but his message was still received loud and clear. Buffett made the case that you should never bet against america, b
Comes with some of these medical breakthroughs that could yield perhaps advances that lead to people moving around, feeling more comfortable, boosting a little bit those stocks that have been most beaten down, morgan absolutely. When youre talking about reopening, you have names like disney that are moving forward with plans or some plans in florida, you have names like apple beginning to open more Retail Stores in the u. S. As well also crude is one to watch and carl just mentioned it, the fact that were seeing a bid for crude. Wti the june contract expires tomorrow and what a difference a month has made as you have seen production numbers start to come in and started to see some of the driving demand return as well gas prices at the pump up by a couple cents in the last couple weeks as more and more people are starting to come out as we start to see more of these reopenings, but, of course, longer term, as we continue to talk about over and over again, its going to be what does the t