Takeover by veolia brexit back lash nancy pelosi says there is no chance of u. S. uk trade deal warning britten ain to break the divorce treaty a warm welcome. Lets kick off the show with a look at the markets. Extending gains after the rally. We have turned negative. You can see all four of the Major Regions are trading lower. The ftse down a half a percentage point the dax has turned negative now. The big event for european investors, no doubt that ecb meeting coming out later today and reacting to the turn around we saw in the u. S. Markets yesterday. We did see major indices recoup the selloff. The positive momentum not enough to continue to todays session looking to the break down and the best performing parts. Food and beverage and travel and leisure also rebounding. Noting every sector et cetera travel and leisure advanced. Now one of the better performing parts of the market. Chemical, utilities and auto the worst in contrast are the Banking Sector down about 1 down sharply in
Consternation about the opec meeting. Jim, another day of Business Leaders addressing racial inequality whether its gorsky on squawk, moynihan, ballmer, this letter by cory barry, theyre out in force yeah. I thought that one of the themes echoed by alex gorsky is no more dodging. Look, im white, i am part of the problem because im not doing enough i think theres been a long history of people who have said im white, im older, im a ceo, i cant do anything other than have a committee and put some money at it. Theres far more soul searching this time. These are heartfelt sentiments but also sentiments that say im rolling my sleeves up. Im not going to say my heart is going out with them. The hearts going out with them doesnt work it is something that is a platitude, something that gets nothing done and when you hear it now, its code for, hey, okay, i finished that lets talk about the numbers i think that a lot of courageous actions, different tone. David, you have to admit, this is a tone
Earnings season even as Goldman Sachs warns of a 35 g. D. P. Slump. And jpmorgan is the first u. S. Bank to report. Wells fargo comes next. Dont miss our interview with the c. F. O. Later on today. Those earnings come out before the u. S. Bell this morning. And global coronavirus cases approach the 2 million mark with 119,000 people dead. France extends its lockdown. The u. K. Is expected to follow suit this week. Were just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning. We had the u. S. Trade down yesterday. India is doing quite well or did quite well overnight. European futures up more than 1 across the board. Ftse and euro stocks, dak futures this morning. Dax futures this morning. Here h your top stories this morning. President trump says he has total authority to order states to relax social distancing and reopening their economies. A number of u. S. State governors say they will form regional alliances to coordinate th
Equity markets are up and bonds are down. The market is functioning from that point of view. Vonnie we have not much concrete to go on for equities expect except the promise we will get a stimulus built in the next few hours. Everything that has been dropping his rallying and everything that has been rallying seems to be dropping. By that i mean the grocers. The s p 500 is up a whopping 8 . We will see if we get a successful vote in that few hours, if there is even more room for u. S. Equities. Again, we have a search for the u. S. 10 year yield, although that has been trading in a range, if you could call 15 basis points a range. The vix is slightly higher in the session, down three points itself. The dollar index is seeing a little bit of relief after sessions and sessions of strength with a voracious appetite for the u. S. Dollars finally abating or maybe some people taking advantage to take a little bit of profit. Insight asget more to where these markets are and potentially where
He believes authorities are in control. There is reason to have confidence in institutions and italian authorities. European union is perfectly confident on what the italians are doing. But i repeat, there is no reason for panic. And in an exclusive interview at the g20 in saudi arabia, u. S. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin tells me its too early to determine the impact of coronavirus on the economy in terms of the Economic Issues, its tough to have strong predictions on the Economic Issues without being able to predict the health outcome. So i think were going to need another three or four weeks to see how the virus reacts namaste, trump the u. S. President addresses a 100,000strong crowd as he kicks off his state visit to india hailing the countrys economic potential and touting a trade pact we will be making very, very major among the biggest ever made trade deals we are in the early stages of discussion for an incredible trade agreement to reduce barriers of investment between th