Friday coming off the exhaustion of all of that central bank news, the analysis of the markets, the big tech earnings. I would focus on this may day, on the persistent theme, the dawning awareness about a seriousness a pandemic continues to be. One lighter note, there is a beach war in america. The governor of california is shutting down the beaches while alabama and texas are talking about opening the beaches. That is the distraction in a very difficult virus statistics. Howcine it is interesting in the u. S. It differs from state to state. With the bloomberg first word news in new york city is Viviana Hurtado. Viviana we begin with u. S. Federal reserve expanding the scope of its main Street Lending program. Now businesses with up to 15,000 employees will be eligible, so will those with up to 5 billion in revenue. The central bank is expanding its paycheck protection facility. This after the initial round of funding was spent in under two weeks. European central bank looking to ease
I would look for italian bond yields and treasuries. We are also getting breaking news out of iea. It says the oil outlook is fragile. We had a great story saying saudi arabia is speaking to producers to make sure there is not too much volatility. 57. 42. Rude at and the one weve had a lot of news, we could talk about u. S. Intervention on the dollar. The yield at 1. 7. R shares are rising after the Company Proposed and 8 billion settlement. This is the picture, 7. 5 higher. Coming up, we speak to the chief executive of novo nordisk in 30 minutes. First, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. We stay with that breaking, also a bloomberg scoop. Bayer proposing to pay 8 billion to settle claims round of causes cancer. This would settle more than 18,000 lawsuits. It may be months away, but it would ease investor concern over the litigation exposure. Fight, thatthout a is the italian Prime Ministers message to his deputy. Leaderiimmigrant league is pulling support for the administ
the notes from the us central bank s last meetings show policy makers are feeling better about inflation. they a . ree better about inflation. they agree with better about inflation. they agree with investors - better about inflation. they agree with investors that i better about inflation. tie: agree with investors that rates are at or near the peak for this cycle. they also agree that that will come down this year. but they offer no clues as to how or when that will happen. just to remind viewers it started raising rates in march 2022. it did so 11 times, taking the benchmark weight to a range of five and a quarter to five and a half percent. inflation had dropped to 3.2% from a peak of 9.1%. new data out on wednesday showed the number of job out on wednesday showed the number ofjob openings in the united states fell to a .70 9 million in november. this points to weaker demand for labour, but it is still way above pre labels. that is consistent with the goal to slow the
By an israeli airstrike. The Israeli Military has denied responsibility, saying the blast was caused by a failed rocket launched by the gaza based Militant Group Palestinian Islamic jihad. Us President Joe Biden is currently travelling to israel, but a planned Summit Injordan with arab leaders has now been cancelled. Biden s visit is designed to further demonstrate americas support for israel. The white house is saying the us is optimistic about getting humanitarian aid into gaza. On our website we have a live page that is constantly updating with the latest developments but now lets focus on the top Business Stories. Here in europe in a few hours we will be getting a clearer picture on where inflation is headed. For the uk and eurozone the latest data is out today and its hoped the cost of living crisis will continue to ease. In the uk the rate of inflation slowed to 6. 7 in the year to august. For the eurozone the latest estimate has inflation hovering around 4. 3 . For Central Banks
Impact in oil prices because if you even though iran has been under solutions for the last years it been quietly providing oil to customers in the globe and the white house has turned a blind eye especially the last year or two because its been trying to smooth relations between iran and the western world but now if the white house decides to enforce those sanctions, that means supply from iran would be cut off and coming at a time when oil supplies have been tightening because saudi arabia and russia, the two largest exporters of oil in the world, were also part of 0pec have collectively being reduced 1. 3 Million Barrels of oil per Day Sincejuly and will get you to do so to the end of the and there is a good chance it may continue next year as well so if this happens there will be a scenario where there will be less oil supplier, more demand, and that leads to higher prices. Major Oil Producers are not directly involved in the conflict but it has still sparked uncertainty as far as o