Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the physical nature of the data on our community and you really want to hear about the pressure that city leaders face everyday and balancing their budgets, dealing with issues in the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues or you just want to make sure you are in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its cor
Now we are at 29. 80ish we have been going side ways most of the year in 1997, the year started at an alltime high and went up. It is true. You think about where we were Christmas Eve and we had taken a huge plunge. We got it back interesting on the performance. Similar to the u. S. But china lagged significantly where we are in the trade war. Who is hurting more or less. Down about 4. 7 china has closed today but something to keep your eye on treasury yields are up part of that because of a weak japanese option not exactly for risk on reasons. I wonder if the new quarter means youve loosened up a little bit looking even at absolute levels, a lot of that has been weak. At the end of the quarter, it hasnt money too significant well be a bit of a head wind. Still talking about growth from 6 yesterdays day was fractionally better the eurozone manufacturing and final print was a tiny bit of expectations still the worst to october 2012, the Global Growth out look does not look particularly
Year increases after reports that budweiser will delay sending it lower. And shares plummet to their lowest level on record after it reveals its in talks with china over a 750 Million Pound rescue plan it comes by so quickly every single month the decision, they say their output agreement does not change the output of an oversupplies market that is according to the International Energy agency. So in its latest report the iea says supply exceeded demand in the first half of 2019 and that rebalancing in the oil market has begun to slow. As ever, lets bring in nei neil atkinson. And just reading the major take away from the report is that essentially oil supply the first half of the year has exceeded demand you say that that number is 900,000 barrels. So despite opecs best efforts we still have the supplydemand mismatch we do thats a mismatch thats actually grown as new data has come in. And through the rest of 2019 well see how the demand issue plays out but as we move into 2020 the outl
We heard from jay powell. We will hear from him again today. The eurodollar, 1. 1278. There is a lot going on, not only about trade. Official taxes that france will vote on. There is a mood on what happened to euro depending on what we get from the ecb minutes that will be released after midday. We will watch for that and any movement on currency. Coming up, we speak with the sao paulo governor, he is joao doria. Plus we will speak to sheriff brown about u. S. Politics. Lets get to the work first word news. Deutsche bank is now being probed u. S. Justice department as an expanded investigation. The u. S. Is reportedly taking a closer look at a former Goldman Sachs executive who later worked at the german bank. Authorities havent accused which a bank of wrongdoing. Another federal probe, the u. S. Investigating frances plan to tax tax giants. Socalled 301 investigation is the same tool donald trump used to impose tariffs on china. Korear japan nor south has much political incentive to c
Francine welcome to bloomberg surveillance. These are the markets. The stoxx 600 gaining a touch. The u. S. 10 year yields going to around 2 . Deutsche bank after the massive overhaul gained one point 7 . We did have a little news out of the german Industrial Production data. Bit of gaining a little temper on some of these markets. The market is going toward 2 . Coming up, we heard from the associate general chairman, what he had to say about the fed, ecb, and more. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. The lira swamping after president erdogans decision to replace the countrys central bank chief. The dismissal has fueling concerns over the regulators independence. In a meeting, erdogan reportedly told policymakers to get behind his conviction that higher Interest Rates cause inflation. This morning, greece has a new Prime Minister from the right Democracy Party. The election handed him a mandate to tackle the nations chronic woes. New democracy is set to get a perlman treat major