My radarhich means is up. Francine lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika Mitch Mcconnell insists that businesses, schools, and other organizations be protected against coronavirus lawsuits, and that has bogged down talks over a new stemless package. Demanding that changes to Liability Law include wholesale in the legislation. Nancy pelosi says that shows he is not serious about reaching a deal. Federal reserve policy makers will turn their attention on how to jumpstart a stronger rebound from their sessions. They are all but set to keep their benchmark overnight rate unchanged when they wrap up their meeting today. The fed releases a statement at 2 00 p. M. New york time, Jerome Powell holding a News Conference 30 minutes later. Telln Ceo Jeff Bezos will will say that his customers his company he will strike a patriotic tone for his appearance before the house antitrust subcommittee. U. K. May loosen its coronavirus quarantine rules after a backlash from tourists and sp
And we expect a normalization of that. But you need to remember as well that in our case, we have been working to stabilize, grow the franchise, recover some market share, so what we are pleased to see is that underneath that sort of outperformance in the market environment that we have been in, we have seen really good franchise stabilization traction , client engagement, improvement in clients. We think that bodes well for the future. You are expecting slightly higher revenue for the full year. Not too conservative now given what we have seen in the first half . It it would be james would be a normalization but i think an improvement on last years second half. Again, especially in our businesses, where a year ago, we were going through a restructuring and there was some uncertainty around our people and franchise, so with that now behind us, we see momentum in the core business, and we would like to see a secondhalf performance well ahead of last years second half, but we will see ho
A negative picture for the u. K. And labor economics does not necessarily tally with whats happening. We are getting some details on whats happening in the u. S. Housing market. We are dealing with that. This is a month on month number. Last month it bounced back strongly. This month the market was a 16. 6 number and we are ahead of expectation. Yearoveryear, we have seen this out of the come back. The last time it was at 10. 4 and we were expecting 2. 2 on that number. Expecting 12. 7. This is more positive. Alix but can we sustain it if we dont get sustained stimulus . Coming up, kevin johnson, the starbucks ceo will be joining us. And patrick will be talking about the tech hearings and what he has to say area to say. Peter is joining us now, nothing is expected today, but what can say to reassure markets that they are all in . Ritika not expecting a whole lot, peter not affecting a whole lot, but i think that the press conference will be important, certainly powell will have to addr
The university of texas on the pandemic. Of then Michael Morris guggenheim securities. You can only go back in florida. Taking a more circumspect view of whether or not these parts should open. Earnings next week are going to be a big theme as well. A lot of the big tech names are going to be in focus. Lets talk about what is happening broadly in these markets. You mentioned the curve steepeners. The curve is flattening. There is pain in that trade. The u. S. 10year yield has come down. A tight rangein over the last month. S year, we saw the 10 year the range as than 60 basis points to 75 basis points. Equity markets have faded. Im struggling to see where the catalyst is coming from, which catalyst to focus on. How markets are going to progress from here. Lets get help with that question. Yields, theg bond curve flattening out. Equity markets are going nowhere in a hurry. We have a. We have virus. We have elections. Where are you focusing your attention . Thank you for having me. When
Were going to talk more about the tech sector. Is this a market moving event . We will get a take on whether the market should be paying attention to this. The banks are having a big day in europe. It is been a tough day. Barclays traders had a blockbuster Second Quarter. The lender is anticipating that the crisis gets worse. The ceo had this to say. Clearly there has been an extraordinary Economic Contraction globally. Particularly in the United States and in the u. K. A sizable reserve. The vast majority of that are derived by our risk models where we put economic forecasts into the models. Future unemployment rates, gdp rates etc. Those models produced impairment numbers. We think we have been conservative to build proper reserves. Economye how the particularly in the u. K. And u. S. Unfold in the next couple of quarters. We like the comfort of having strong impairment numbers. At the same time maintaining profitability for the bank. Youram looking at Investment Banking business. Fi