Demand. Ryan, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. It was long in coming. Everyone asking, what are you going to buy . Tell us how you came up with this deal. It is great to be with you again today. We have been talking about the need for consolidation in business for quite some time. We need to put a Value Proposition together that offers investors a different way to think. We have done this with a transformative acquisition with concho resources. This brings in a bunch of lowcost supply resources government 23 billion barrels into the company. It is about a super strong Balance Sheet to manage the volatility we have seen in this business. It is about how you allocate capital for value, not for growth. It is distributions we were going to give back to the shareholder. It is about having a sustainable business. The deal takes an Energy Transition that we know is coming for our planet. Alix can you give us insight into how competitive it was . If you look at the Shell Companies that
Welcome to surveillance. Off to a firmly risk off footing and then remain so. Additional wobble coming through after news china is slapping sanctions on Lockheed Martin. Barely Holding Onto Gains here. Up by one whisker but the losses are heavy into deep in europe and asia. Looking at key earnings including the banks but also delta reporting numbers in a few hours. Eurodollar up, this is the story of Dollar Strength. You have treasuries play big after the open on monday. When california reintroduced some restrictions to stem the virus. 1. 2 . En brent crude down looking ahead to that Monitoring Committee meeting and the expectation is theres going to be some additional action. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news and get you the round up there round up there. China has called the u. S. A troublemaker which is undermining regional stability after the Trump Administration rejected beijings claims to large parts of the south china sea. The u. S. S china previous policy of not taking
Coronavirus cases and political tensions. The Trump Administration rejects beijings claims in the South China Sea, accusing it of bullying. The u. K. Is set to ban huawei from its 5g mobile network. The plan would mean British Companies need to remove huawei infrastructure by 2027. Welcome to the program, everybody. Lets check out the futures. Lots of moving parts in terms of the market action. Lots of geopolitics to talk about as well. We have futures pointing to the downside in europe. We have to play a little bit of catchup with the united states. Lets get to some of the breaking news out of the u. K. That is certainly going to be one of the focuses in our program. The u. K. Economy shrank by 19. 1 in the three months ending in may. Getting a three month figure. Main manufacturing production rising by 8. 4 . Somecoming out manufacturing facilities coming out of the Strict Lockdown measures, working out how to manufacture in the current environment with covid safe practices. Mayecono
Not a pretty chart. How concerned is the governor of the bank of england . Governor is extremely concerned. We also had forecast this morning from the ob are, the fiscal watchdog, suggesting unemployment is going to remain extremely elevated and is likely to rise into next year. That will make the governors job in the chancellors job very difficult. The real question is, where does the stimulus come from . Does it come from the treasury in westminster, or does it come from the bank of england . I suspect it will be the bank that does the heavy lifting, not the treasury. Both will have to do some, but the onus is going to fall on the governor. Tom this is the theme of surveillance today. Now that we drift to the end of july, the middle of july, we begin to see gdp data from may and june, the change to Political Economic dialogue. In new york city without first word news come here is ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. Vice president mike pence told u. S. Governors to protect their citize
And how they are working with diversity and how they are changing the company with what that means. Seasons season is officially underway. Scarlet fu is here with some of the highlights. Scarlet i wanted to start big picture, as with banking and other parts of the economy, the stronger getting stronger and the weak are getting weaker. Citi leaning on their trading business. You can see that jp morgans revenue soared thanks to training. Record revenue for a second straight quarter, and equity rising more than 30 . At citi we saw trading surging 68 and with companies trying to raise cash as quickly as possible, investing got a boost as well. Wells fargo does not have the same wall street operation. If you look at wells, reported a loss 2. 4 billion. The first quarterly loss since 2008. Nine and a aside half billion dollars for credit losses. See jp morgan putting aside 10. 5 million. That is the biggest loan loss provision in its history, and it shows us how covid19 affected the economy