France and germany and others remove travel receptions spur tourismu. To and britains nonessential shops opened today as well. Stocks fall on fears of a wave of rhinovirus infection. Over 20 u. S. States see a pickup. Tokyo sees the most cases in over five weeks. Beijing reports another outbreak. Plus, bloomberg learns of an internal plot at nissan to take months beforeown his arrest in japan. The information comes to light and is due to face a trial in tokyo. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets take a look at how far down futures have fallen, right now looking at 2. 5 drop on the stoxx 50. The benchmark index. Futures down a little bit more than that. Teachersok at u. S. As well. S p 500 emini contracts approaching 3 losses. Nasdaq futures off. What does the gmm look like . Anna ill get to the gmm in just a moment. Pricel giant revising its assumptions and expecting to take a charge in the second quarter. They see a noncash impairment and the write off
Executive later. Another busy day. A lot of people were talking about in the virtual newsroom that we have created around the world that we cant quite remember whether it is tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. A lot of the focus is on what your markets are doing. This is your data, euro area, april services pmi coming up at 12. The preliminary figure was a touch below that. That Services Data coming in at 12 instead of the preliminary 11. 7. That is a little bit better than expected. I am looking forward to the ofexecutive of com campari. Look at renminbi. President trump continuing to push the reopening of the economy and oil pretty much stalling. Treasury yields edging higher. We will have plenty more on that shortly. We will be speaking to the campari chief executive. Trump isent donald pushing to get the u. S. Economy to reopen. He says americans should begin returning to their everyday lives but he is also acknowledging it could lead to more suffering, including more deaths. Pres. Tr
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
255,000 people now dead. China hits back at u. S. Criticism saying the Trump Administration is lying. U. S. we are seeing futures flat at the moment after stocks gained for two consecutive sessions. We have seen sentiment being boosted as economies move towards easing the lockdown, cautionary comments from fed officials cutting the gains in half. Health care, utilities and games cut in half area energy was a gainer. Look at wti, adding to the gains of the regular session in new york. It had gained 20 , at the moment above 25 a barrel, the highest in over two weeks and the longest winning streak in nine months. Production is starting to ease. Walked up being felt across markets. Lockdowns being felt across markets. Wedi there is the sense dont know what is going on and price this market we are seeing . Lets get over to our next guest. Times,e unprecedented earnings for the companies that are still giving earnings, is pretty unreliable. What metrics do we go by in terms of pricing and va
Few smiles and the magic kingdom. Disney suffers a coronavirus hit with seem parks shot, movie theaters closed, and sports on hold. Shery a quick check of the market. This after u. S. Stocks gained ground for a second day in the regular session. We have sentiment being boosted as more economies move towards easing lockdowns. Still, in the last hour of trading, there were some cautionary comments on said officials that cut gains in half. New zealand stock scanning. 8 . This would be a Third Session of gains. Therir rate. Rate. Ir we have the rba leave rates unchanged. We are looking forward to retail Sales Numbers very soon and we will see how all of that toilet paper hoarding that we saw in march is reflected in the numbers. Not Much Movement for the japanese at the moment. Tosident trump continues push the theory that the coronavirus originated and escaped from a lab inside wuhan but sources within the u. S. Intelligence Community Say the intelligence is less than definitive. That as