More than 3 higher. Shares in astrazeneca hit a record high as the giant prepares to release positive news on the covid19 vaccine and julius bar with a drop in assets under management but a record high net profit and stresses it is well prepared for a challenging second half. European leaders remain deadlock after a drawn out three day summit over the budget and recovery they will resume talks today over how to allocate the money and urging his colleagues to approve the Recovery Fund, italian Prime Minister pushed for unity emphasizing that the pandemic has effected the whole block. Were going through a stalemate. This looks like its very complicated. More complicated than expected theres many issues were discussing and were not yet able to resolve and i have invited all eu leaders to converge to approve the next generation eu which is a plan for european recovery. Over the weekend a lot of negative headlines around the stick point, the size of the fund, between grants and loans and no
Trades on top. Ocado drops despite reporting 30 jump in sales. Jp morgan and banks kick off earnings season. Well see how much of an impact hit the banks bottom lines. It has been a weaker session in europe. Stocks have been trading deeply in negative territory. The hand over wall street, very choppy we have not seen that. Investors getting used to some of the records in the recovery trade takinghnogy. It was the opposite yesterday as some of the closures in california and texas with the spike of covid cases finally spiked a little caution. Weve seen some numbers. Signatu singapores seeing more of the fa fallout from the virus tensions from the u. S. And china again around the South China Sea and Natural Resources china claims are theirs and the ordering of chinese businesses in the states. A lot of tension one analysts said what you get is either very positive or very negative we are still roughly where we started on the uk stock market up 18 french rewinding about 2 . The dax is down
Its work force with plans to hire 260,000 people as the fast food giant begins to return to normal operation in the u. S. Borrowing balloons in the uk rises above the economic output in the 1960s when britain was still paying off the cost of the Second World War the premier league is already back with 92 games to be played over 40 days under strict coronavirus conditions with regular testing and no crowds orphans in the stadium wire card says it has been the victim of, quote, fraud and of considerable propositions and has accused the third party of deceiving its partiers after it was unable to confirm the existence of almost 2 billion euro held in trust account theyve done 44 shares today when shares traded at over 60 over currently trading at 22 over per share. Annetta, this has been an interesting story. Yesterday, a real game changer for shareholders everybody was aware this this yesterday was a make or break moment for the company that is parentally turned into a break moment what
President s, you need to put a tiger in the tank. It is very clear what the uk needs. Uk Prime Minister says a brexit deal by the end of the month is possible despite key sticking points. Jeff bezos goes to washington founder and ceo is willing to testify after long resisting a longranging inquiry of antitrusting nbc confirms north korea has blown up an office hours after they threatened to take action. A warm welcome this morning. A lot to get to. Lets kick off with the energy markets. We have a fresh report out of the iea. The iea has raised the 2020 forecast by nearly 500,000 barrels a day due to demand from china and india as well as the lockdown Global Oil Supply outlook fell in may opec plus countries reduced out look by 9. 4 Million Barrels a day. Interesting to see that they do now see a stronger Oil Demand Forecast than they now had seen previously they note that oacd industry stocks rose to 3. 1 billion above fiveyear average. In terms of oil demand, that is coming from bette
It is still up 1. 9 , but bit by bit we are lower across the globe spirit still positive for most of the groups. We are a racing that massive gain of earlier today. The 10 year down a few basis points. We are awaiting the fed action at 1 30. We will see what happens out of that. The dollar index continues to be strong. The euro is weaker, so his british sterling. We are even seeing massive moves for the yen today. Crude oil is down. 2 . It has a its gain as well. Guy the World Health Organization now saying europe is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. You can feel that a little bit in terms of some of the price action today. The stoxx 600 is positive, it is off its lows. A few moments ago the dax went negative on the day. This is not a convincing rally. It is of course friday. You want to carry positions across the weekend . We are seeing a considerable move when it comes to what happens in the bond market. By 17 year is higher basis points. You are seeing a similar move at the