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First time in years. And the fed the ecb cuts funding costs. Boris johnson pledges a lockdown exit plan. Welcome to daybreak era. As we head into may, how about these markets . 1987. St month since u. S. Equities. U. S. Jobless claims yesterday, the you want to focus on the unemployed or the fact that the claims have been decelerating for four weeks. We saw a red on the screen yesterday. More than 1 . Own a lot of markets closed. In asia, japan is open. Read on the screen for japan. Many are closed but ftse futures points to a down day. Risk off across the markets. Dollar strength coming through on the bloomberg dollar index. Oil is an outlier in terms of the risk picture heading for a monthly gain. Coronavirus,o the u. S. Coronavirus cases recorded the slowest daily increase for the month of april. Resident donald trump will theel to camp david for first time leaving the white house compound for more than a month. The president is preparing to resume travel and reopen the economy. Yor
More protection, the ecb tweaks policy. The economy ravaged by the coronavirus. Ftse futures point lower, and much of europe is closed but we will see trading in london. Apital is coming apollo aims to raise 20 billion and several new funds for opportunities in distress and private debt, this after boeing sold 25 billion worth of bonds in the largest offering of the year. Just under one hour away from trading in the equity markets that are open. London notably, and the ftse futures are down this morning. We also see s p futures, dow futures, and nasdaq teachers down. Nasdaq futures down. We know the u. S. Markets will be open as well today. Typically a european holiday. The u. S. Has detonated a different has designated a a different day for that purpose. The notable figure, the first one i see in the First Quarter, 802 Million Pounds versus 86 Million Pounds in the previous year. This is a number we are looking out for a lot of banks during this crisis. Newsrms of other notable from r
Interview with Michael Oleary is coming. Good morning. Also happy friday. It has been a long week. This is what your markets are doing and a lot of folks about what we heard from a we heard about will we heard from the European Central bank. We continue our earnings outlook. Was tech yesterday companies. This is what i am looking at, dollars up. U. S. Futures are down. Treasuries advancing. If you look at trading, holidays across many major markets. Gdpecb coming out with calls saying it could be it could rebound. Of course, this year that gdp could shrink between 5 and 12 . Year will be next a lot better. We will have the more forecast. Figureseuro area gdp being published. We will delve deeper country by country and give you an update. Lets get to new york city with the first word news. Viviana we begin with the u. S. Federal reserve expanding the scope of its main Street Lending program. Businesses with up to 15,000 employees will be eligible. Expandingl bank is its paycheck protect
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